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Police called tosudden deathsPOLICE in Neath Port Talbot werecalled to two separate sudden deaths atthe weekend.

South Wales Police first went to aproperty on Pentyla Road in Baglan at7.15pm on Saturday following thesudden death of a 38-year-old man.

A spokesman for the force saidofficers were continuing to investigatethe incident.

Baglan councillor Peter Richardssaid: “I am saddened to hear of a deathin the community of Baglan. I send mysympathies out to the family of theperson in question.”

Officers were also called to the woodsnear Cilfrew at 9.08am on Sunday,following the sudden death of anothermale.

They are not linked.A spokesman for South Wales Police

said: “There are no suspiciouscircumstances and HM Coroner hasbeen informed.”

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Joshua Hughes enlisted his Titansteammates in proposing to hisnow fiancee Claire Elworthy.

Raise yourissues with MPSWANSEA EAST MP Carolyn Harris willbe holding a special surgery at herBrynhyfryd constituency office onSaturday between 10.30am and12.30pm.

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SWANSEA Titan Joshua Hughes washelped by his team-mates whenproposing to Claire Louise Elworthyafter a season-ending win against theCardiff Cobras.

American football player Joshua,aged 23, proposed to girlfriend of threeyears Claire, also aged 23, on the field atLlandarcy after his side beat the Cobras19-0 to wrap up an undefeated season.

After dating for three years, Joshua,from Clydach, decided to propose in aunique fashion and bought 25 jerseysfor his team-mates to spell out theproposal.

He said: “Football has been such a bigpart of my life since starting atuniversity and I have always had theidea of proposing on the field.

“We always have a photo at the end ofthe season so I put the boys in thejerseys and had all of the boys faceaway.

“I then asked Claire to come and takea photo of us and had everyone turnaround to show to letters on theirtops.

“She saw it and went ‘Oh no’. I thensaid my lines and asked her to marryme.

“The boys were incredible — theydidn’t know I was going to do it untilafter the game.”

Joshua said it was such an importantgame he didn’t want to jeopardise theteam’s chances by telling them hisplans, although some coaches knew.

“I was on pins all day and the coacheswere asking me which I was morenervous about — the game or theproposal,” he said.

“I was over the moon when she saidyes.

“She said she’d never seen me morenervous.

“I got down on one knee and said toher she’s been so amazing in my life andthat there’s no-one I want to spend the

rest of my life with but her.”The couple met in 2008 while

studying at sixth form.“I had my eyes on her but she didn’t

want to commit before university, so weboth went away to university single,” hesaid.

It was only after Claire thought shesaw Joshua on a night out in 2012 andsent him a message that things pickedup again.

Joshua said: “It turns out it wasn’t meshe saw but I turned on the charm andit went from there.

“I have always felt that if you knowthat person’s the one and you see afuture you should do it. When welooked for a house we decided that wewere moving forward with our lives.”

He gave her a £1,200 engagementring and the couple are already lookingfor wedding venues.

The couple are planning to tie theknot in August next year.

The Swansea Titans are in divisionone of the British Universities AmericanFootball League and have got into thesemi-final of the play-offs.

PRIME Minister David Cameron willlearn about events celebrating DylanThomas and his work this afternoon at areception being held in DowningStreet.

Guests from Wales have been invitedto join the St David’s Day reception,including author and Dylan Thomasexpert Jeff Towns, who said he is keen topromote various events inspired by thepoet, as well as book selling in Wales.

The former chairman of the Dylan

Thomas Society, who sells books from amobile bookstore, is still working withSwansea University as a patron of theInternational Dylan Thomas Prize,which will be awarded on May 14 —International Dylan Thomas Day.

That will be marked by a specialDylan night at Swansea’s Cinema & Co,and Mr Towns said he was keen to usethe visit to Number 10 to promote themall.

He said: “I am really curious to go

inside this iconic centre of Britishpolitics and I hope to be able to spreadthe word about our mobile bookstoreand our work promoting reading andbooks through the words of great Welshand Swansea writers — from DylanThomas to Nigel Jenkins and beyond.And I hope my somewhat Corbynequedress sense does not cause offence.”

The Welsh flag is expected to flyabove the famous residence, as it doesannually on St David’s Day.

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Culture ofdiversity iscelebra tedAN organisation aimed atcelebrating Swansea’smulticultural community hasbeen launched.

The new Welsh and EthnicNetwork (WEN) communityorganisation was officiallylaunched this week.

WEN director Farida Islamsaid: “Through WEN we hope tobuild on the successfulmulticultural community thatSwansea prides itself on.

“Our board consists of anumber of people of differentnationalities, all workingtogether, and with different skillsuseful to the community.”

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EDUCATION in Swansea would beprotected and the council tax rise for2016-17 lower if the Liberal Democratsstill held sway in the city.

That is according to Lib Demcouncillor Chris Holley, who hasprovided the Post with his party’salternative budget for 2016-17.

The former council leader claimed hewas not given the opportunity to

present his proposals at length at lastThursday’s council meeting, whenmembers agreed £21 million of savingsand a council tax rise of 3.9 per cent.

Labour has been at pains to saybudget pressures have been forcedupon them, although a better thanexpected settlement from the WelshGovernment turned a grim £36 milliondeficit forecast for 2016-17 into a £21million one.

Mr Holley said he backed Labour’ssavings proposals which did not affectfrontline services. Other Lib Dembudget suggestions included:

● Transferring care homes, parks andall culture and sports activities intocharitable trusts, which would generatecash via business rate relief.●Freeing up £1.2 million from generalreserves.●Procuring council transport servicesmore efficiently.●School budget pressures totalling £4.4million to be fully funded.●Free public bus transport forschoolchildren up to 18●Cutting cost of school meals to £1.

Mr Holley said his party’s proposalswould require just a 2 per cent council

tax rise to balance the books.Mr Holley said: “We can blame many

others, from Westminster to Cardiff, forthe budget that we have but it is themembers of this council who have tomake the best use of it for the people ofSwansea.”

Labour’s budget resulted in a 0.62 percent education cut, but with £1 millionfreed up for essential school repairs.

Deputy council leader ChristineRichards said Mr Holley had “adequateopportunity” to present his ideas at themeeting, and that asset transfers couldnot just happen overnight.

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