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Her friend Olwen, 17, said she could now see how some of her fellow students struggled with costs at college.

Olwen Jones, 70, has been receiving the payment for the last four years since retiring from her job in IT.

Olwen Collier was in the Stag and Pheasant in Carmel, south Wales, to decorate a function room for her daughter's 50th birthday party.

Olwen Fôn Williams, who planned to drive over the bridge on Sunday, told BBC Cymru Fyw she had "never seen such a flood".

Rev Olwen Woolcock, priest-in-charge at Tinwell, formally handed it over.