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Often, many of the people who live in this sort of postcode will be low income, older people living in smaller semis.

Neighbourhoods fitting this profile can be found across the country but main concentrations are in the West Midlands and the North East in towns such as Wolverhampton, Walsall and Dudley, Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland.

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Schools

Find out the performance data, locations and contact details of your local schools. All the vital information you need to help make educational decisions for your children.
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Crime

The South Wales Police force is responsible for policing the Bridgend Council local authority area.
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Council tax

The average council tax per household in Bridgend council is £980.00, compared to an average in Wales of £980.15.
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Local news

Failings over vicar killer case

27/11/2009 16:01:51

A health watchdog finds serious failings in the mental health treatment of a man with paranoid schizophrenia who killed a vicar.
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Drivers win taxi age court fight

27/11/2009 16:43:53

A judge backs taxi drivers in a row over a council's decision to impose age limits on taxi cabs in a city hosting the Ryder Cup.
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Residents become 'super heroes'

27/11/2009 08:49:11

Three people are transformed into cartoon super heroes with their own comic strip to promote recycling.
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Farm brings home the bacon

25/11/2009 18:02:50

A Monmouthshire farm has been named best food producer in a national UK awards ceremony hosted by BBC Radio 4.
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Police pleas after road injuries

26/11/2009 08:23:30

Two men, aged 80 and 21, are injured in separate road incidents, prompting witness appeals by two police forces.
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Whipround for Scrabble title tilt

26/11/2009 07:17:51

A Scrabble player puts his "year from hell" behind him to take on the game's elite at the world championships.
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WMC 'must widen appeal in Wales'

26/11/2009 17:26:33

Five years after opening, the culture minister says the £109m Wales Millennium Centre needs more visitors from across Wales.
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The benefits of alfresco education

25/11/2009 12:35:04

Youngsters are going back to the woods to learn in a new outdoor classroom at Garwnant Forest.
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Ceremony honours plant's war dead

25/11/2009 17:55:41

A service is held to honour six men from a cement firm killed in World War II after two memorial plaques are found.
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'Oak death' affects medieval site

25/11/2009 07:10:32

Trees and shrubs at a medieval site in Cardiff are to be burned after a plant disease is discovered.
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TV doctor show saved man's life

25/11/2009 17:46:17

A woman uses resuscitation techniques learned from a TV drama series to save her father when he collapsed.
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Newyddion

22/01/2009 09:40:23

BBC Wales' Welsh-language online news service
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Contact us

14/07/2003 12:19:25

Do you have a story? Here's how to tell us about it
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Local news

20/10/2004 12:05:07

News sources for south east Wales on the internet
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It's occurrin' here

26/11/2009 07:28:11

Inside the house made famous by Gavin and Stacey
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Railway Stations

Tondu (3.08 miles away), Arriva Trains Wales

Sarn (3.38 miles away), Arriva Trains Wales

Wildmill (4.28 miles away), Arriva Trains Wales

Garth (Mid Glamorgan) (4.32 miles away), Arriva Trains Wales

Pencoed (4.40 miles away), Arriva Trains Wales

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