THESE are some of the stories which made the headlines in the South Wales Guardian in the week ending Thursday, May 26, 1983.

An independent councillor stormed out of Lliw Valley council's annual meeting in protest at the number of committees and outside bodies which are only represented by Labour members. Cllr John Davies said the council would have to operate a ten-day week to allow these councillors to attend all the committees.

Plans by the National Coal Board to continue tipping of colliery waste in the Amman Valley will be met with fierce opposition.

Llandybie community council have vowed to support the campaign to stop National Coal from dumping waste at Tycroes. However, the council would like to know what would happen to the waste if permission were refused. Nesta Price said: "If they take the waste elsewhere, will that mean a constant stream of lorries rattling past us here in Llandybie?"

Dyfed Trad- ing Standards department has received so many complaints about aerial photographs of property that they are forwarding information about one particular firm to another authority for collation.

The last four years have probably been the worst in the Amman Valley since the depression of the thirties, it has been claimed by Labour candidate Denzil Davies. He said that unemployment in some areas exceeded 50 percent. He said that during their time in power the conservative government had not brought any work to the valley at all.

THE people of Wales will be this year's guests at the Whitsun festivities in the small Dutch town of Ridderkerk.