AMs also listened to evidence from Aberystwyth Town FC Manager Tomi Morgan.

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On Aberystwyth sea front, the town's former magistrates' court doubles as the outside of Mathias's police station, while out of town Aberystwyth University's Plas Gogerddan building is being used for internal shots of the fictional police station.

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The last time we met we talked for some time and she spoke fondly of Wales and of her visits to the nation, including to my home town of Aberystwyth.

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At present, some people in Machynlleth travel 18 miles (28.9km) to shop at a supermarket in Aberystwyth, even though the town has smaller food stores.

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The nearest dentist to Aberystwyth accepting patients is in the seaside town of Barmouth, but NHS Direct says because the surgery is in a different county, although only 20 miles away, patients from Aberystwyth may not be accepted.

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Rival travel writer Mike Parker who has settled in Aberystwyth, also leapt to the defence of the mid Wales town which the Lonely Planet guide labels as "rather stuffy and old fashioned - a wannabe seaside resort".

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