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BLAENAU GWENT: Constituency profile

ICONIC: Tredegar town clock

WITH incumbent assembly member Trish Law stepping down as Blaenau Gwent's representative, this election could be a chance for Labour to retake the seat it lost in dramatic fashion in six years ago.

BLAENAU GWENT: Martin Blakebrough (Liberal Democrat)

I do not see myself as a politician but a community activist. I work for Kaleidoscope who provide drug and alcohol services throughout Wales.

BLAENAU GWENT: Alun Davies (Labour)

I’m standing for election because Blaenau Gwent really matters to me. I was born and brought up in Tredegar. Blaenau Gwent made me and shaped me. It’s personal to me – that’s why I’m standing for election and why I hope you will support me.

BLAENAU GWENT: Bob Hayward (Conservative)

Bob Hayward was born in Newport and has had his home in South East Wales all his life. After graduating in Civil Engineering at Leeds University he spent three years in the Antarctic studying the effects of climate change on glaciers.

BLAENAU GWENT: Darren Jones (Plaid Cymru)

My name is Darren Jones, I am your Plaid candidate. I am 37 years old and was born in the Rhondda. I currently live in Blackwood with my wife and two sons.

BLAENAU GWENT: Jayne Sullivan (Independent)

THIS may be my first election campaign but I am no newcomer to campaigns.

BLAENAU GWENT: Brian Urch (BNP)

British National Party Assembly Members will hold every political party and every politician to account for their pitiful and deafening silence on the two great unmentionables of our times: the creation of the multicultural society and the European Union.

CONSTITUENCY PROFILE: Blaenau Gwent

3:00pm Monday 3rd May 2010

IT WAS once considered one of Labour’s safest seats in the country and the fifth safest in the UK.

Dai Davies - Independent

3:00pm Monday 3rd May 2010

This Election is a unique opportunity to create a new form of politics - to replace the rotten one imposed by Thatcherism, and then deepened by Blair-Brownism.

Rhodri Davies - Plaid Cymru

3:00pm Monday 3rd May 2010

My name is Rhodri Davies, the Plaid Cymru candidate for Blaenau Gwent. I am 27 years old.

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