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Wednesday 17 July 2019 3:00pm

Karime was born in 1962 in Cardiff's dockland, known as Tiger Bay, one of Britain's oldest multi-cultural communities. He has a degree in Town and Country Planning from Nottingham Polytechnic (now Trent), and an MSc in Industrial and Public Planning Policy from Loughborough University.

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