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Port Talbot
/ ˈtɔːlbət; ˈtæl- /
noun
- a port in SE Wales, in Neath Port Talbot county borough on Swansea Bay: established as a coal port in the mid-19th century; large steelworks; ore terminal. Pop: 35 633 (2001)
Example Sentences
Christopher Elias, 45, from Waunceirch, Neath Port Talbot, has been charged with the offence of refusing to answer a question relating to the qualification to serve on a jury.
Just this week the first minister has come under pressure from opposition parties over the UK government's plans for the steel industry, with accusations that the steelworks in Port Talbot had been treated differently to the plant at Scunthorpe.
She trained at Neath Port Talbot College before earning a full scholarship to Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London.
On Tuesday in the Senedd Morgan made a statement on steel funding, and whether Port Talbot would miss out on its share of £2.5bn set aside for steel by the UK government because the money will end up in Scunthorpe instead.
David Rees - whose Aberavon constituency is home to the Port Talbot works - called for a "fair and just transition" and spoke of the anger and disillusionment of workers in the town that the UK government had kept Scunthorpe's blast furnaces going but not theirs.
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