March 1's Swansea Bay Media Highlights

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For all those interested in & working in the Swansea Bay media
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Print South Wales Evening Post Click
Lead story – A teenage student has died in a tragic accident at cliffs in Southgate, Gower.

Top photo – The timely St David's Day look from the weekend's Get Welsh in Swansea event (pictured)
Key opinion – Six pubs in the area go up for auction this week; it seems that new landlords face many problems.
Publicity power – Features writer Chris Peregrine shines his light on new book When We Were Miners, by Ian Isaac; it tells a personal South Wales story of the 1984-85 miners’ strike.
Don’t miss (& still on the issue of miners) – Page 25 has a lovely 1983 photo of colliers at Aberpergwm Colliery.
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Broadcast The Wave Click
Key local story – Headmasters across Carmarthenshire have been telling The Wave about their concerns over possible funding cuts due to the county council budgeting.
Promo power – Well done to the Llanelli teenager who’s managed to get the support of Dannii Minogue and David Beckham in her Help for Heroes fund-raising effort.
You heard it here – Scientists have made a new breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer.
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Online Andy Pearson Publicity Click
Key local story – Online up, print down as Swansea Bay newspaper chiefs consider figures. Click
Publicity power – How the Swansea eco-media can help your cause. Click
Recommended – Swansea Bay leisure market gets media savvy. Click
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Community Radio Tircoed Click
Website – Happy St David’s Day ... and the Radio Tircoed website has had a makeover for today only. Also on the site – new local events added to the events page.
Programmes - Caroline Carpenter is playing plenty of Welsh artists on The Morning Show to 11am, Phil Thomas has a special Weekday Live from 11am-2pm.
Health - On The Get Together with Phil England, its week 8 of the Diabetes UK Cymru chats.

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Swansea Bay memories of the 1984-85 miners' strike

The 1984-85 miners' strike seems an awfully long way off. Those Swansea Bay media folk who covered the story, however, are certain to retain vivid memories.
My own professional experience of the picket lines came as a newspaper reporter in Yorkshire in pits at Emley and Clayton West and at NUM rallies in communities such as coal-dusted Skelmanthorpe.
Such experiences can now be refreshed thanks to Ian Isaac, one of the NUM South Wales officials of the time.
He's written a book and has some launch events planned. Ian's got a wealth of fabulous recollections and is well worth engaging with.
When We Were Miners is due to be published on March 5 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the ending of the strike.
There's a launch event on Tuesday, March 2, from 7pm at the Railwaymens’ Club, Wind Street, Swansea. Another follows the next day from 7pm at Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff CF5 1QE.
On Thursday, March 4, from 7pm, there's a third event at Maesteg WMC, Temple Street, Maesteg CF34 9YY. On Saturday, March 6, from 11.30am, you can catch Ian at the Afan Forest Park Visitors’ Centre, next to the South Wales Miners’ Museum, Cynonville, SA13 3HG.
The strike was a pivotal moment in Welsh history that changed the character and outlook of valley communities. Ian was in the frontline of the struggle to retain the mining industry and to save valley communities from destruction.
His book recalls what it was like to be an area leader of the South Wales Miners before, during and after the strike.
He discusses the battles during that period from his position as a member of the South Wales NUM executive from 1983 to 1988, and as lodge secretary of St John’s Lodge NUM in Maesteg from 1978 to 1986.
It's fascinating - and important - stuff. It deserves a wide audience.
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