Tony Curtis, the Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan - and a keen golfer to boot - had a timely poem to read as the train sped through the landscape of early autumn.

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The 0846 GMT departure from Cardiff Central railway station to Treforest on Thursday was a real case of poetry in motion - with three poets from the University of Glamorgan on board reading verse.

BBC: Valley Lines poets make tracks

The Hydrogen Bus - The world's first Tribrid minibus developed by Glamorgan University which has been in operation for four months ferrying students between its Treforest and Glyn Taf campuses.

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Haydn Blackey, principal lecturer in marketing at the University of Glamorgan, said there had also been an increase in online grocery shopping by blue-collar families with limited access to transport.

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