These are the stories that were hitting the headlines in the South Wales Guardian 50 years ago on March 18, 1965.

Ammanford teenagers were holding a “council of war” to protest at reports that their Bonllwyn hang-out had become a sleazy nightclub covered with erotic pictures of semi-naked women and which families had banned their daughters from attending.

Laughing off the claims, the spokesman said “The Dive” was locked each night by 10.30pm and the pictures on the walls were cut from magazines bought from newsagents in the town.

Residents of Penybanc were forced to complain about “excessive dust and grit” being thrown up by the opencast operation on their doorsteps.

The problem had reached such an extent that they were no longer able to watch TV because the signal could no longer penetrate the dust.

Gelli Aur Farm Institute near Llandeilo was labelled “the most expensive boarding college in Britain” after it emerged that students had to pay £900 per year to attend.

The revelation that the college poultry farm was losing £2,000 left one critic to comment: “These students are being charged a large amount of money to learn how to become failures.”

An Ystradgynlais trickster was fined £5 after he admitted convincing a couple in a Gwaun cae Gurwen he was a Hoover engineer who would service their vacuum cleaner on the cheap.

After plying the pair with drink, he went to their home and charged them £2 for repair work despite admitting he had not even touched the machine.

Two Brynaman brothers were each fined £4 after they admitted that neither of them had a licence.

Each initially claimed he thought the other held a full licence when questioned by police after being stopped in Garnant.