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No Future in Blaenau
Exploration of industrial decline, looking at the north Wales town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in 2000. The town, once a centre of the slate industry has endured the closure of local slate quarries with a lack of compensatory employment opportunities in the area. Also shows evidence of a consequent rundown in local services.
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