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The smell of smoke clings and a coat of fine ash settles everywhere on window sills and parked cars

Wales Online 1 min read 6 hours ago

Memories of 1976 linger in the air as Blaenavon faces its biggest wildfire since that record-breaking heatwave half a century ago
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