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Wales breaking news plus weather and traffic updates (Wednesday, August 26)
Acrid smoke hangs in the air as clearly as the growing sense of anger as yet another wildfire engulfs a mountainside in South Wales. Residents, whose homes are perilously close to the Maerdy Mountain fire, admit they are frightened. But more than that they are angry and at a loss to understand why this keeps happening.
No official cause of the Maerdy Mountain fire, which broke out on Monday, has been given, but many residents are vocal in their belief that it was started deliberately.
The word on most people’s lips is “why?”. Some fear it will take someone to be killed before the fires will stop. Read on
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