The end of more than 200 years of iron and steel working in a South Wales town has been marked with a specal edition of the Argus.

Ebbw Vale’s tinplate works ceased production on July 5 with the loss of 780 jobs. It was the final round of redundancies following steel firm Corus’ announcement of huge job losses in Wales last February.

The Argus marked the end of an era for Ebbw Vale with a front page montage showing steelworkers in the town a century ago and the present day plant and the headline ‘Last Shift For A Steel Town’, along with a three-page special inside.

Ebbw Vale is so synonymous with steel that its rugby team, which has produced a series of Welsh internationals, is nicknamed the Steelmen.

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