Three generations of Port Talbot resident Belinda Newtown's family have worked at the town's steelworks.

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VSZ, Central Europe's largest steelworks, and trying to reach a deal to restructure its debts.

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Indeed, Howell might be seen to be working in a tradition unrelated to clothes, alongside British artists and designers whose works draw inspiration from the land, such as David Mellor with his Sheffield steelworks, Peter Lanyon's landscape abstractions and the organic forms of Henry Moore.

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Evraz itself has just bought a manganese mine in Georgia, and is bidding for the Czech Republic's big, bust Vitkovice steelworks.

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While Viridor started building its energy-from-waste plant in Trident Park in Cardiff last March, Veolia's planning application for a site near the Llanwern steelworks, close to Newport, was turned down last July, and its appeal will be heard next July.

BBC: Artist's impression of a Viridor plant in Cardiff

After visiting the steelworks, the prince travelled to Swansea, to visit the city's indoor market and the birthplace of Dylan Thomas at Cwmdonkin Drive.

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