RAIL authorities were investigating last night how a train apparently went through a red light on a crossing, narrowly missing a gas tanker and a dad pushing a pram.

The near miss happened at Llanbadarn Fawr, near Aberystwyth, around 11.10am on Tuesday last week while the barriers were up, but only became public yesterday.

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Aberystwyth Train Station

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My Name Is Bruce

Watch the movie trailer...

My Name Is Bruce opens in the U.S. in limited release on October 31; As yet no release is scheduled in the U.K. yet, but you can be amongest the first to watch it at the Aberystwyth Abertoir Film Festival on November 16, at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

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Starring B movie cult actor Bruce Campbell

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FOUR venues will receive a visit from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, November 6.
Prichard Jones Hall, Bangor, November 7.
Williams Aston Hall, Wrexham, November 8.
Venue Cymru, Llandudno, November 9.

Tickets are available from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Tel: 0800 052 1812.

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The £30m development will be funded by the Welsh Assembly Government, and will establish a clinical decisions unit, three new operating theatres, a new A&E unit, a new maternity ward and improvements to the outpatients’ department.

Hywel Dda NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, is currently developing a detailed design of the new facilities and hopes to submit a full business case to the Assembly Government by the end of next summer.

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Friday 31 October 2008
3p.m. - 6p.m.

Wales had a rich gallery of magical specialists (prophets, cunning-men, charmers, etc.), including many who were suspected of harmful witchcraft.
Richard Suggett examines all types of magical specialists, including those regarded as beneficial as well as harmful. Popular belief in witchcraft in Wales did not decline with the abolition of the Witchcraft Acts in 1736.
Indeed belief in witchcraft became darker in form and was transformed into a novel form of cursing - the use of cursing wells available to everyone.

Published by The History Press
ISBN: 978-0-7524-2826-0

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