18th August

By Huw Llywelyn Rees, 2013-08-18

Born on this day 1961 in Bridgend and brought up in Llangennech, near Llanelli.

Huw Edwards - BAFTA award winning journalist, presenter and newsreader.

After graduating from the University of Cardiff, Edwards began his career at the radio station Swansea Sound, from where he joined the BBC in 1984 as a news trainee. He was promoted to Parliamentary Correspondent for BBC Wales in 1986 and then Chief Political Correspondent for BBC News. Between May 1999 and January 2003, Edwards presented the BBC Six O'Clock News and then in 2003, he became the main presenter of the Ten O'Clock News on BBC One, which is Britain's most watched news programme.

He has also presented various special programmes such as the Festival of Remembrance, Trooping the Colour, the State Opening of Parliament, the United States elections 2008 results and the opening and closing ceremonies of both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics. In 2011, he presented the BBC coverage of the Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The coverage was watched by 20 million viewers at peak in the United Kingdom ] and the team won a BAFTA Award for Best Coverage of a Live Event.

Although predominantly a news journalist, Edwards has presented documentaries on many historical subjects, including the BBC Wales historical documentary "The Story of Wales".

Born on this day 1774 in Albermarle County, Virginia.

Meriwether Lewis (of Welsh descent) - explorer, soldier and public administrator, best remembered as the leader of the expedition to explore Louisiana and to find a direct water route across America, to the Pacific.

Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18, 1774 near Charlottesville, Virginia. He developed a love of exploring and hunting, growing up in the wilderness and forests of the Shenandoah Valley and became a soldier at a young age, fighting in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. He soon became an officer, fighting the Native Americans of the Northwest Territory. During this time he became educated in the lifestyle of the Native Americans and learned some of their language.

Then in 1801, Lewis was appointed as an aide to President Thomas Jefferson and after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which was the acquisition by the United States of America from France of their claim to the territory of Louisiana. Jefferson wanted to know what resources the new land had and also if there was a direct water route across the continent, to the Pacific, so he appointed Lewis and William Clark to explore the new territory. It took three years before , the expedition reached the Pacific, in the area of present-day Oregon and they returned not only with information about the geography, but also about its plants and animals.

In 1806, Meriwether Lewis was named the new governor of the Louisiana Territory, but in 1809, on his way to Washington D.C, he mysteriously died of gunshot wounds at a hotel .

Born this day 1966 in Ynysybwl

Garin Jenkins - former Welsh rugby international, who currently works as a summariser on Radio Wales' sports time programme.

Born on this day 1903 in Ogmore Vale.

Dorothy Edwards - novelist.

In the summer of 1802, Vice Admiral Nelson toured Wales with Lady Emma Hamilton (who was raised at Hawarden in Flintshire) and her husband Sir William, who had inherited land in Pembrokeshire. He was welcomed with enthusiasm where ever he went.

The tour began with Nelson travelling down the Wye from Ross to Monmouth, where he visited the Naval Temple on the Kymin hill. He also visited Milford Haven, Cyfathfa Iron Works, Tenby, Haverfordwest, Llandovery, Chepstow and Carmarthen, where the then mayor Sir William Paxton, later built Paxton's Tower on his Middleton Estate, as a memorial to Nelson .

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17th August

By Huw Llywelyn Rees, 2013-08-17

The Radcliffe Line was announced on 17 August 1947 as a boundary demarcation line between India and Pakistan.

The Indian Independence Act 1947, stipulated that British Rule in India would come to an end and that the Provence of British India was to be partitioned into the independent nations of India and Pakistan. The Radcliffe Line was named after its architect, a Welshman, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, from Llanychan, Denbighshire , who was given the chairmanship of the boundary committees, charged with producing a partition map, dividing the 175,000 square miles of territory and 88 million people.

The process had to be achieved within a month and was further hampered by the fact that Radcliffe had no previous knowledge of India. The work was inevitably rushed and produced instances where the border was drawn leaving some parts of a village in India and some in Pakistan and there were even instances where the dividing line passed through a single house with some rooms in one country and others in the other. Then the Indian and Pakistani representatives were given only two hours to study copies, before its publication. By his own admission, Radcliffe was heavily influenced by his lack of fitness for the Indian climate and his eagerness to depart India and justified the inaccuracies, saying that no matter what he did, people would suffer. However he destroyed all his papers before he left India.

Radcliffe had attempted to base the partition on religious demographics, but its implementation resulted in massive population exchanges between the two newly formed states in the months immediately following . It is estimated that 7.2 million Muslims went to Pakistan from India while a further 7.2 million Sikhs and Hindus moved to India from Pakistan, to what they hoped was the relative safety of religious majority. About 11.2 million of the population transfer took place in the west, with Punjab accounting for most of it. The newly formed governments were completely unequipped to deal with migrations of such staggering magnitude, and massive violence and slaughter occurred on both sides of the border. It is estimated that 500,000 were killed. The violent nature of the partition created an atmosphere of mutual hostility and suspicion between India and Pakistan that plagues their relationship to this day.

After seeing the mayhem occurring on both sides of the boundary that was created by him, Radcliffe refused his salary of 40,000 rupees (then 3,000 pounds), but did accept a knighthood in 1948.

On 17 August 1911, Llanelli was the venue for the first ever national railway strike.

The strike was caused by compulsory overtime, poor wages and a 70 hour working week. Talks between the union and management soon broke down and there was an immediate "walk out," by the Llanelli railway workers, which was joined by thousands of local tinplate workers. All train traffic was then stopped by a 1,500 strong picket, placed at the station’s two railway crossings

Magistrates panicked and requested troops from the then home secretary Winston Churchill, who dispatched 700 of them to the town. To control the crowd, a bayonet charge was ordered against the unarmed workers, which resulted in one of crossings being cleared.

Then on the evening of Saturday 19th August a train, driven by strike breaking railwaymen, was moved from the station until it was forced to stop by barricade of 250 strikers. Another bayonet charge was ordered, which cleared the line. However the crowd moved up onto the embankment and hurled stones at the military. The Riot Act was read - the last time it has ever been read in mainland Britain and Major Stuart ordered the troops to open fire. Two men were killed , one being the local rugby star, John – Jac. The soldiers then, moved back to the station to cries "Murderers" and the situation became increasingly more tense, with shops being looted and railway trucks attacked. Tragically one of the trucks contained detonators and exploded, killing a further four people.

Sadly, what was not known at the time of the shootings, was that the strike had already been settled, with Churchill declaring "They have beaten us."

Born on this day 1943 in Splott, Cardiff

John Humphrys - author, Journalist and presenter of radio and television. From 1981 to 1987 he was the main presenter for the BBC Nine O'Clock News and since 1987 he has been a presenter on the BBC Radio 4 news programme "Today" where he has a reputation as a tenacious and forthright interviewer. He is also currently the host of the BBC Two television quiz show Mastermind. Humphrys left school at 15 to become a teenage reporter on the Penarth Times , later joining the Western Mail. He joined the BBC in 1966 and was soon sent to the United States and South Africa to start news bureaux. In this role, he reported the resignation of Richard Nixon, the execution of Gary Gilmore and later, when based in South Africa, he covered the transformation of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe. In 1981 he became the main presenter of the BBC's flagship Nine O'Clock News, but became frustrated with the endless meetings, working late and reading from an autocue, so in 1986 he immediately accepted a job on the "Today" programme

Humphrys attracted controversy in September 2005 when he allegedly branded all politicians as liars and made comments about Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and John Prescott in an after-dinner speech which was subsequently leaked to The Times. This resulted in him being censured by the Corporation for his use of "inappropriate and misguided" language.

He has won many industry awards, including being named Journalist of the Year in February 2000 and in 2005 he founded the Kitchen Table Charities Trust, a charity that funds projects to help some of the poorest people on the planet.

17th August 1979 saw the release of the then controversial film "The Life of Brian" which was directed by Colwyn Bay born director Terry Jones and featured the Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire actress Sue Jones-Davies as the character Judith Iscariot.

The film tells of the life of Brian Cohen, who was born next door on the same day as Jesus Christ, and is mistaken for as the Messiah. The film was controversial at the time, with some religious groups accusing it of being blasphemous.

Thirty-nine local authorities in the UK banned the film, as did some countries, such as Ireland and Norway. However, the film makers used the notoriety to their advantage with advertising slogans such as "So funny it was banned in Norway!".

Interestingly, the ban was not lifted in Aberystwyth until 2009, when Sue Jones-Davies (who played Judith Iscariot) was elected mayor of the town.

On 17th August 1831, 93 people lost their lives when the paddle steamer Rothsay Castle was wrecked on Traeth Lafan (Lavan Sands) 0n the Menai Strait.

The steamer, which was used for day trips from Liverpool, along the coast of North Wales encountered a rough sea and strong winds and when one of the passengers went to ask to return to port, found Captain Atkinson drunk and unwilling to turn the vessel around. By the time they had reached the Great Orme, the ship had taken on two feet of water and the pumps would not work. To make matters worse, there was no bucket on board for bailing and the lifeboat, which had a hole in it, had no oars. They ran aground and the ship broke up, with the bodies of the downed victims being washed up mostly on Anglesey.

The inquest that was held at Beaumaris concluded that the Rothsay Castle was not a seaworthy vessel and was not properly manned. However, in 1832, as a result of the disaster, a lifeboat was stationed at Penmon and in 1837, the Trwyn Du (black nose) lighthouse was built.

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Eto And 'Culture Wars' In The Rhondda Leader

By Ceri Shaw, 2013-08-16

Eto editor Phil Rowlands was approached by the Rhondda Leader last week to comment on his forthcoming appearance at the 'Culture Wars' panel discussion being co-presented by AmeriCymru and Portland State University at PSU on October 4th. Here is an extract:-

....there is no doubt that it is the panel discussion and the possibility of American universities running modules on Welsh writing that should make every established and aspiring Welsh writer sit up and take notice with their fingers firmly crossed.

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To read the full article click here:- Welsh.pdf or on the image below ( opens as .pdf )

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CULTURE WARS - OTHER VOICES IN BRITISH LITERATURE

Presented by AmeriCymru and the Portland Center for Public Humanities

Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 327/8

Fri Oct 4th 6.30-9.00 pm

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CYMRY Appearing at Crescent Brewery in Nampa, Idaho Saturday August 17th at 9 pm

By Jaz Fagan, 2013-08-16

This is one of the best venues around, with great music, cold crafted beer right there at the brewery by Jerry and his staff, good times and good friends. Come get out of the heat and have a cold one served by none other than Jerry himself! CYMRY plays Welsh/Celtic. Classic Pop and Rock, Originals, Folk and Brother Bob plays 20's-40's style music.

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16th August

By Huw Llywelyn Rees, 2013-08-16

The king of rock and roll, Elvis Presley died on 16th August 1977 and he may well have been of Welsh descent.

* The name Presley is related to Preseli - the mountain range in Pembrokeshire.

* Members of Elvis's family had Welsh names, his mother was named Gladys and his dead twin, Jesse Garon Presley had a Welsh middle name.

* His maternal grandmother Doll Mansell may have come from the famous family of Mansel from Oxwich on the Gower peninsula.

In August 1405, Owain Glyndŵr held a parliament at Harlech Castle. Glyndwr had taken control of Harlech Castle in 1404 and made it his home and headquarters.

At the parliament of 1405, the Tripartite Indenture would have been discussed, which was the plan among Glyndwr, Thomas Percy, earl of Northumberland and Edmund Mortimer to divide England and Wales into three parts.

* Glyndŵr was to have control Wales, and the English portions of the Welsh Marches.

* Northumberland was to have received the north of England.

* Edmund Mortimer was to have received southern England.

The former Welsh Rugby Union President, Sir Tasker Watkins, was awarded the Victoria Cross for action on 16th August 1944, which saw him mount an assault on a German machine-gun post in northern France. After the war ended he took up law as a career and rose through the legal system to become deputy lord chief justice, acting as deputy to the attorney-general in the tribunal into the 1966 Aberfan disaster. Sir Tasker became president of the WRU in 1993, overseeing the switch from the amateur era to professionalism and the move from club to regional rugby in Wales. He stepped down on 26 September 2004.

Former Wales rugby coach Graham Henry had Watkins' citation pinned up on the wall of the Welsh changing room before international matches.

Today is the feast day of Saint Armel.

The period following the collapse of Roman rule , which left the Celtic Britons to fend for themselves, saw the emerging Welsh kingdoms, continually wrestling with the Anglo Saxon kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbria and Wessex to define their frontiers as well as having to deal with opportunist Irish raiders It was against this backdrop that many Celtic Britons left Britain and settled in the "Armorican" peninsula, later to be called Brittany. It was also at this time that many holy men, later commerated as saints, jorneyed between the Celtic countries, spreading the word of Christianity. Armel is said to have been a Breton prince, born to the wife of King Hoel of Brittany while they were living in Glamorgan in the late 5th century. He travelled from Wales to Brittany and founded several monasteries.

Legend has it that one day, a dangerous dragon appeared and began to prowl the district where the Welshman lived, attacking the inhabitants. Armel could no longer bear to witness the ravages of the monster, so he decided to meet the beast in its cave. Using sacred water, he lured the dragon out, whereupon it became as meek as a lamb. Tying a scarf around the neck of the monster, Armel led the dragon to the top of a mountain, from where he ordered it to jump to its death. To commemorate this event, the mountain was dubbed Mont-Saint-Armel.

The memory of Saint Armel as well as many other saints was kept alive by the pilgrimage cult that produced pilgrim badges in his honor. The use of pilgrim badges flourished in Europe during the 14th and 15th centuries.

Born on this day 1888 in Tremadog, Caernarfonshire

Thomas Edward Lawrence, who later became known as "Lawrence of Arabia"

Lawrence gained fame as a leader of an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War One. He had thrown himself into Arabic culture to befriend and sympathise with his Arab partners and it was this ability to identify with the Arab peoples which made him a successful military leader.

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Vacation like a Royal - Anglesey Experiences for Royal Enthusiasts

By Bob Titley, 2013-08-15

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Bob Titley, The Robert Titley Consultancy

Tel: 917-690-8418

Email: roberttitley@aol.com OR Bob@theroberttitleyconsultancy.com

Vacation like a Royal

Anglesey Experiences for Royal Enthusiasts

New York, NY, August 15, 2013 - Vacation like a royal on the Isle of Anglesey where William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have spent the first two years of their marriage. The islands scenery, budding culinary scene, and traditional Welsh hospitality have charmed the couple, and travelers can follow in their footsteps with these five Anglesey experiences for royal enthusiasts.

How to vacation like a royal:

1. Walk the Wales Coast Path The walking path stretches 870 miles around the shores of Wales; 125 of which wrap around Anglesey. On average, it takes 12 days to complete but visitors can do short trails with stops at South Stack lighthouse, the Menai Suspension Bridge, the sea cliffs at Rhoscolyn, and Llanddwyn Island the place dedicated to the Welsh Patron Saint of lovers.

2. Take a day tour of Anglesey Excursions North Wales is a tour company that offers an Amazing Isle of Anglesey day tour stopping at: the RAF Valley air force base (where Prince William works), South Stack nature reserve and lighthouse, Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens, and the Menai Suspension Bridge which features views across the Menai Straits.

3. Visit a stately home Plas Newydd is set on the Menai Straits and boasts views of Snowdonia. The country-house currently belongs to the Marquess of Anglesey. While there, take a walk through the gardens or have afternoon tea its a favorite of the Duke and Duchess.

4. Explore a castle Beaumaris Castle is a medieval fortress that dates back to the 13^th century when King Edward I commissioned it to defeat the Welsh rebels. It is surrounded by stone walls and a moat, and it belongs to the Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd UNESCO World Heritage Site.

5. Stay in shadows of nobility Visitors can discover the variety of accommodation options on Anglesey from the private-estate turned boutique, five-star accommodation at Plas Rhianfa, to the 15^th century coaching inn and pub at Ye Olde Bulls Head Inn. They can also rent a farmhouse just like the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Coastal Holidays offers cottage rentals on the island.

On August 14^th , 2013 Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, made his first public appearance at the Anglesey Show an agricultural show in North Wales since the birth of his son. He described his experience living on the Isle of Anglesey saying, I know that I speak for Catherine when I say that I have never in my life known somewhere as beautiful and as welcoming as Anglesey. The views across the Menai Straits are undoubtedly among the most stunning in the British Isles. I know that both of us will miss it terribly when my search and rescue tour of duty comes to an end next month and we have to move elsewhere." He added, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for making my wife and me so welcome when we arrived here, as you do thousands of visitors each year.

Request more information about Wales by contacting Visit Wales by E-mail: walesinfo@visitbritain.org and online at www.usa.visitwales.com : http://americas.visitwales.com/?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_campaign=vacationlikearoyal

Resources:

Wales Coast Path http://www.walescoastpath.gov.uk/explore_by_area/isle_of_anglesey.aspx

Excursions North Wales http://excursionsnorthwales.co.uk/

Plas Newydd http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/plas-newydd/

Beaumaris Castle http://cadw.wales.gov.uk/daysout/beaumaris-castle/?lang=en

Plas Rhianfa www.plasrhianfa.com

Ye Olde Bulls Head www.bullsheadinn.co.uk

Coastal Holidays - http://www.coastalholidays.net/

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15th August

By Huw Llywelyn Rees, 2013-08-15

In August 1284, following the deaths of Llywelyn and Dafydd ap Gruffyd, King Edward I of England held court in the Welsh llys (royal court) at Abergwyngregyn.

The area first enters the history books in AD 60, when Suetonius Paulinus led twenty-five thousand men from their base on the bank of the river Dee to invade Anglesey, which was then the stronghold of the druids. The Roman soldiers forded the sands at this point and Tacitus later recorded the savage massacre of the local people that took place. The road that the Romans built linking Chester to Segontium (Caernarfon) looped round the garth.

The original name of the settlement was Garth Celyn and is positioned on a raised promontory of land on the fringe of Snowdonia, overlooking the Irish Sea with wide sweeping views across the Menai Strait to Anglesey and beyond. To the east of the Llys was the Cistercian Monastery of Aberconwy and to the west the cathedral city of Bangor.

About the year 1200, Prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth made it his home as did his grandson Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. It is Garth Celyn that John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury, travelled to in November 1282 to negotiate between Llywelyn and Edward. Llywelyn was offered a bribe - £1000 a year and an estate in England if he would surrender the Welsh Nation into the hands of the King. His refusal and his reasons for doing so, were dated from ‘Garth Kelyn’.

After the Anglo Norman Conquest, the name Garth Celyn continued in local use but was not used by the English administration. Instead the settlement Aber Garth Celyn adjacent to the royal home became officially known by the administrators simply as Aber, ‘Estuary’ with its identity removed and later replaced with Abergwyngregyn, ‘Estuary of the White Shells’. The Welsh royal home was occupied and became a Crown of England property: Edward and his entourage stayed there in 1283 and again in 1284, but from that time on no member of the English royal family again set foot on it and it gradually fell into ruin.

The 15th August is celebrated as V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day) the day in 1945 that Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II. However, the campaign to push the Japanese out of Burma was the longest and bloodiest of World War II. This is emphasised by the following orders that were given to the Japanese soldiers.

'Continue in the task till all your ammunition is expended. If your hands are broken, fight with your feet. If your hands and feet are broken, fight with your teeth. If there is no breath left in your body, fight with your spirit. Lack of weapons is no excuse for defeat.'

Japan had long resented the British presence in the Far East and with Hitler certain of victory in late 1941, they invaded Malaya and Burma to seize raw materials such as rubber and oil. British staff officers ridiculed the idea that the Japanese could be a serious fighting force.and would be no match for a modern European army. Then came the brutally effective Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbour, on December 7, 1941. Japanese bombers were in action again three days later, sinking the battleship “The Prince Of Wales” and the battle-cruiser Repulse in the South China Sea with the loss of about 1,000 men. The news reverberated around the world and was followed almost immediately with humiliating news that Singapore had surrendered, which was followed by two and a half years of disaster and defeat for the British Army, as it retreated northwards through Burma in the face of a terrifying enemy. The Japanese completed their advance through Burma by late May 1942 and virtually all the remaining Allied troops had retreated north over the Indian border.

However, in the end, Japanese industrial capacity simply could not sustain a long war and when Germany surrendered, the Allies were able to release all of their weaponry for the war in South-East Asia, which in August 1945, culminated with the devastating strikes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Born on this day 1856 in Holyton, near Motherwell, Scotland

Kier Hardie, who was one of the Labour Party's founders and its first leader. He became the MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare on 2nd October and was one of the two initial Labour Party MP's to sit in The Houses of Parliament.

Hardie came from a poor household and although he had no formal education, his parents taught him to read and write. He began to work in the local coal mines and being a devout evangelical Christian and a supporter of the temperance movement, he became skilled at public speaking. This then led to him becoming a spokesman for his colleagues in their disputes with management. However, this led to him being seen as an agitator and he was blacklisted by the management. Hardie therefore began to work for the miners' union and this led to him being involved in many of the strikes of that time. He and his wife Lillie also ran a soup kitchen from their own home.

Originally a Liberal, Hardie soon became disillusioned by the party's lack of emphasis on helping the working man and began to stand for parliament as an independent, being elected in 1892 as an MP for West Ham South in. Then in 1893 he formed and became leader of the Independent Labour Party

In 1894 251 miners were killed after an explosion at a mine in Pontypridd and after his request for a message of condolence to be sent to the families of the berieved was refused by parliament and a message of congratulation to Buckingham Palace on the birth of the future Edward VIII agreed, Hardie delivered a vitriolic attack on the monarchy, which resulted in him losing his seat at the next election in 1895.

Hardie spent the next five years laying the foundations of the future Labour Party and returned to parliament in 1900 as an MP for the Labour Representation Party, which in 1906 changed its name to the Labour Party, with Hardie becoming its first leader.

Hardie, a firm pacifist during World War One, battled all his life for the oppressed and under-privileged. He was a supporter of female emancipation, home rule for India and the ending of segregation in South Africa. However in 1915, worn out by his help for others, Hardie suffered a series of strokes and died. He was buried in his native Glasgow but has never been forgotten in Merthyr and Aberdare where he is still revered as Britain's first truly socialist MP.

Born on this day 1908 in Swansea

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas CBE - newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster.

Picture is of a memorial to Wynford Vaugan Thomas, in Welsh slate on the slopes of Moel Fadian, one of his favourite locations, near the village of Aberhosan in Powys. It highlights all 13 peaks in Wales above 3,000ft .

Thomas's mother Morfydd Lewis, was the daughter of Daniel Lewis who was one of the leaders of the Rebecca riots in Pontardulais. He Was a contemporary of Dylan Thomas at the Bishop Gore School, Swansea,before graduating from Oxford. Thomas then joined the BBC and in 1937 gave the Welsh-language commentary on the Coronation of King George VI and during World War II, he established his name and reputation as one of the BBC's most distinguished war correspondants. His most memorable report was from an RAF Lancaster bomber during a real bombing raid over Nazi Berlin. Other notable reports were from Lord Haw Haw's broadcasting studio and the Belsen concentration camp. Then in 1953 he was one of a team of BBC commentators on the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1967, after leaving the BBC, he was one of the founders of Harlech TV, now ITV Wales, being appointed Director of Programmes, as a frequent TV broadcaster himself throughout his early career with the BBC he had adopted the required BBC accent of the time but employed his more natural native Welsh accent to even better effect in his later career. In May 1970, when President of the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales, he officially opened the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path.

Born this day 1951 in Tredegar

Berwyn Price - former Welsh international athlete (110 metre hurdles). Price was a double Olympian and won the gold medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. He later became Head of Sports Tourism for Swansea and Assistant Director of Leisure for Swansea City Council.

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By Ceri Shaw, 2013-08-15

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Please stop bastaradising out beloved Welsh Dragon. No self respecting Welsh person would USE Y Ddraig in this manner. The Welsh Dragon is