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The DVLA is an executive agency of the Department for Transport. The current Chief Executive of the agency is Julie (Karen) Lennard. [3] The DVLA is based in Swansea, Wales, with a prominent 16-storey building in Clase and offices in Swansea Vale. It was previously known as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre.
Today the F1 plate has a valuation less than the winning bid with the price tag stagnating on that particular plate. [ citation needed ] A few months before the F1 plate was purchased, the S1 plate sold for £397,500 at an auction in September 2007 to an anonymous buyer, making it the second most expensive number plate to be sold in the UK.
Cardiff is the capital city of Wales and its most-populous, followed by Swansea the second most-populous. Since 2000, Welsh towns have submitted bids to be awarded city status as part of jubilees of the reigning British monarch or for other events, such as the millennium celebrations, with Newport, St Asaph and Wrexham awarded city status ...
Swansea City A.F.C. was founded in 1912 and is the city's main football association team. Originally playing at the Vetch Field, they moved to the Swansea.com Stadium (then known as the Liberty Stadium) at the start of the 2005–06 season, winning promotion to League One in their final year at their old stadium.
Cardiff City was originally founded in 1899 as Riverside A.F.C., initially playing in local amateur competitions. The club won its first trophy under the guise by winning the Bevan Shield, an amateur cup competition, in 1905. [2] The club changed its name to Cardiff City in 1908 and entered the Southern Football League in 1910. [3]
Swansea railway station serves the city of Swansea, Wales. It is sited 216 miles 7 chains (348 km) from London Paddington, via Stroud, [1] on the National Rail network, although most services use a shorter route via Bristol Parkway. In 2023/24, it was the third-busiest station in Wales, after Cardiff Central and Newport. [2]
The building was officially re-opened by the American former President Jimmy Carter and the last Leader of the Swansea City Council, Trevor Burtonshaw, as the Dylan Thomas Centre in 1995. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2012 a large part of the Centre was leased by Swansea's council to the University of Wales with the purpose of using it as a business centre ...
It was designed by Vincent Harris and Thomas Anderson Moodie in the Beaux-Arts classical style following a design competition [5] and was built by Turner & Sons of Cardiff at a cost of £67,724. [6] It was officially opened by the Chairman of the County Council, J. Blandy Jenkins, [ 7 ] as Glamorgan County Hall on 19 September 1912. [ 8 ]