Around 200 car cruisers turned up to have one last drive through Blackwood High Street on Thursday.
The Safer Caerphilly Partnership held a special car cruising event last week to publicise the High Street being closed on Thursday nights.
Gwent police led and organised a “last cruise” through the High Street before leading the boy racers to the council’s Pontllanfraith House.
Blackwood car cruisers are to drive down the town’s High Street one last time before it closed off. The road is to be closed on Thursday nights in a bid to stop…
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