At First Night Talbot, the crab drop signaled the beginning of the new year, as it has for nearly two decades.

"At night-time when it's all lit up ... written in the months of uncertainty which hung over Port Talbot, with shops opening here at 5am for the shift change. "These businesses are built on ...

and the only remaining hotel room was along the south Wales coast in Port Talbot. "I just remember being in bed one night in the hotel and the whole room lighting up orange; it was flaring from ...