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Tony Benn at the Burston Strike School Rally 2010 (Photo credit: zoer)

So Tony Benn is dead. Another giant figure from my 1970s and 80s along with Margaret Thatcher,  another ideologue I did not care for that much,I always hated his smug arrogance that he always exhibited. I always felt it wasn't for his extremism and influence we might not have endured as much of Mrs T as we did,and no New Labour. but mild form of social democracy. One thing he was right about, and that was the overpowering executive stifling parliamentary democracy which 'made him.a bedfellow with some unlikely people like Enoch Powell (who apparently was a good friend of his)  Rest in Peace Tony.

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Does Cardiff Council care about Cardiff's rich heritage?

http://www.clickonwales.org/2014/03/dont-rip-the-heart-out-of-the-coal-exchange/

Perhaps not? I speak as a  native and proud Cardiffian whose family was a major part of Cardiff's rise in the 19th and 20th centuries.

My great grandfather captain Richard Rees was a master of the GWR tug  The Earl, his cousin was a coal broker and my grandmother started her work life as a office junior at the City Coal Exchange, this building is as important as Cardiff Castle!