Cardiff University and University of Wales College of Medicine merged in 2004, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama joined the University of Glamorgan Group in 2007 and the University of Wales, Lampeter, and Trinity University College, Carmarthen, joined forces this year.

BBC: Welsh universities 'to be cut by half by 2013'

Dr Fiona Brookman, a reader in criminology at the University of Glamorgan and deputy director of its Centre for Criminology , told BBC Wales less than 0.5% of recorded murders in the UK were contract killings, according to the available evidence.

BBC: Aamir Siddiqi

The University of Glamorgan, in showing the works of the likes of Sheenagh Pugh, Jeremy Hooker and Christopher Meredith on platforms and waiting rooms might well find a ready audience.

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