Her parents, Bob Lloyd and Karen Thomas, admitted they needed help to deal with their "mixed-up daughter".

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It was moulded in the valleys of Wales, a proving ground for many spinners of words, notably David Lloyd George and Dylan Thomas.

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Liberal Democrat peer Lord Thomas of Gresford, president of the Lloyd George Society, read extracts from Lloyd George's speeches and from Winston Churchill's tribute delivered to the House of Commons on Lloyd George's death in 1945.

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