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Wales Online
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Nathan Bevan

In the shadow of the black route: What it's like living in the way of the M4's proposed relief road

The spine of the photo album cracks and creaks as Joanne Kyte smooths it open on the small folding table in her parents' kitchen.

Sunlight spills in through the wooden-silled window, on the other side of which her dog Alfie, a wiry black terrier, excitedly pushes fallen crab apples around the lawn with his nose.

"That's me there," she says, pointing at the fading black and white snapshot of a small child sitting on the knee of an older man leaning against a fence.

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