The final stages, Dowlais Top to A470 and A470 to Hirwaun are due to begin after April 2014.

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Tredegar to Dowlais was opened to traffic in 2004 and the Abergavenny to Gilwern improvements followed in 2008.

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Then over the next few days, miners were coming home to my village, Dowlais, in tears - I'd never seen such a sight.

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In 1900 Keen's nuts-and-bolts company merged with the Dowlais iron company, founded in 1759 and managed from its early years by the Guest family.

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Construction of the final two sections of the A465 - covering Hirwaun to Dowlais Top via the A470 - is scheduled to begin after April 2014.

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Ceiron Cook, 36, of Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, ran home and went to bed leaving Lynsey Popp, 28, alone in the car on a country road near the town.

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Steve Evans, who revived brewing in Dowlais after a gap of more than 25 years, said the company's Hobby Horse beer would be the only Welsh ale on sale in Australia.

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