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In June 2013 Johnston was criticised by local MPs Wayne David and Paul Flynn for his actions in causing the resignation of the Chief Constable of Gwent Police, Carmel Napier. Johnston criticised Napier's management style, saying that their relationship "was never going to work," and confirmed that he had told her to either retire or "be removed."
Owain ap Hywel (died c. 930 [1]) was a king of Glywysing and Gwent [2] in southeastern Wales. Owain's father Hywel was king of Glywysing until his death around AD 886. [ 1 ] Although the unified kingdom of Glywysing and Gwent became known as Morgannwg in honor of Owain's son Morgan the Old , Charles-Edwards argues that it is probable that the ...
Gwent Archives (Welsh: Archifau Gwent) is the local records office and genealogy centre, based in Ebbw Vale, South Wales for the historic county of Monmouthshire. It covers the modern local authority areas of Blaenau Gwent , Caerphilly County Borough , Monmouthshire , Newport and Torfaen .
Blaenau Gwent: 1992, 1997, 2001: Sir Dennis Walters [2021 23] Conservative: 28 November 1928 1 October 2021 Westbury: 1964, 1966, 1970, 1974 I & II, 1979, 1983, 1987: Mike Weatherley [2021 24] Conservative: 2 July 1957 20 May 2021 Hove: 2010: Andrew Welsh [2021 25] Scottish National: 19 April 1944 18 June 2021 South Angus
The area has been occupied since the Paleolithic, with Mesolithic finds at Goldcliff and evidence of growing activity throughout the Bronze and Iron Age.. Gwent came into being after the Romans had left Britain, and was a successor state drawing on the culture of the pre-Roman Silures tribe and ultimately a large part of their Iron Age territories.
My great grandfather was well known in town 80 years ago for trying to publicly [end] himself a bunch of times before finally succeeding, I didn’t know until I was 20 and found his obituary.
The paper was founded as the South Wales Argus and Monmouthshire Daily Leader on 30 May 1892. An early description of the paper reads, "The South Wales Argus, the only evening paper printed and published in Newport and Monmouthshire was established in 1892, and the South Wales Weekly Argus and Star of Gwent the only weekly paper printed and published in Newport, was established in 1829.
In the early ninth century, south-east Wales was a kingdom called Gwent, but for periods in the ninth and tenth centuries it was separated into Glywysing in the west and Gwent (now Monmouthshire in the east, with Glywysing having a higher status. [1] [2] Glywysing was called Morgannwg (now Glamorgan) from the end of the tenth century. [3]