{"id":953005,"date":"2026-05-11T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953005\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:54:33","slug":"wales-breaking-news-plus-weather-and-traffic-updates-monday-may-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953005\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales breaking news plus weather and traffic updates (Monday, May 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A motorcyclist who died in a crash on the A472 Hafodyrynys on Monday, May 4, has been remembered by his family as a &#8220;loving son, partner, brother, stepdad and grandad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Officers from <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/gwent-police\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Gwent Police<\/a> and paramedics from the Welsh Ambulance service were called to the scene of a crash involving a motorbike at around 2.35pm on Monday 4 May. The rider of the motorbike, a 44-year-old man, was sadly pronounced dead at the scene, has been named as Andrew &#8216;Buzz&#8217; Edwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">His family has paid tribute to him. They said: &#8220;Andrew was a loving son, partner, brother, stepdad and grandad who brought joy, laughter and warmth to everyone lucky enough to know him. <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/44-year-old-killed-motorbike-33925454\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Read on<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Buzz was more than a friend to all of us, he was the person you could always rely on no matter what.'\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/695803263_1504205524825602_2767140363914675710_n_result.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"'Buzz was more than a friend to all of us, he was the person you could always rely on no matter what.'\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">&#8216;Buzz was more than a friend to all of us, he was the person you could always rely on no matter what.'(Image: GoFundMe)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist who died in a crash on the A472 Hafodyrynys on Monday, May 4, has been remembered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,378,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-953005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-in-the-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116556992879996924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}