On 12th February 2007, a report by the National Trust revealed that more than 70% of the coastline in Wales is under threat from coastal erosion and flooding.  The report, Shifting Shores, stated that the massive likely impact of global warming on the shape of Wales is that our coastline will be transformed beyond recognition if climate change is not halted.

However  broadcaster and environmental campaigner, David Bellamy believes that to state that global warming is caused by man, is poppycock and that climate change is historically proved to run in cycles.   

Born this day 1371, in Usk.

Elizabeth Mortimer, who was the great-granddaughter of Edward III.  She is best known for her marriage to her first husband Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur), when she was eight and he fifteen.

Hotspur, one-time ally of Owain Glyndwr was killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 fighting Edward IV, who had Hotspur's body quartered and delivered to Elizabeth, who had him buried in York Minster.  Jane Seymour, Queen consort of Henry VII, was a descendant of Elizabeth and Elizabeth is represented as 'Kate, Lady Percy,' in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and as 'Widow Percy' in Henry IV, Part 2.  

Born this day 1843, in Llanelli

John Graham Chambers, who was a sportsman and newspaper editor, who devised the Queensbury Rules in 1865, which is a code of generally accepted rules in the sport of boxing that were publicly endorsed by John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensbury.  

Born this day 1978, in Cardiff

Gethin Jones ,  television presenter, best known as a presenter on Blue Peter and Daybreak.  

Born on this day 1788 in Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire.

William Williams - who was the MP whose speech on 10th March 1846 expressing his concerns as the state of education in Wales unwittingly culminated in the "Treachery of the Blue Books" and a furious backlash on himself personally. 

In 1804 as a youth of sixteen and having had only a basic education, Williams set out from Carmarthenshire to seek his fortune in London. He began working in a cotton warehouse and soon built up his own business.  He was elected MP for Coventry in 1835 and after losing the seat in 1847, he became MP for Lambeth in 1850.

Although he spent the whole of his adult life in England, he never forgot Wales or his native language.  He deeply resented the squalid social conditions most of his compatriots were obliged to suffer and believed that if given education, the position of the masses in Wales would improve. It was this conviction that led him to persuade the Government to set up an inquiry into the state of education in Wales.  However, the storm of controversy that followed was something that neither he nor anybody else could foresee.

William Williams was a generous benefactor to the village of his birth, paying for the building of a school in 1862.  Then in 1863, he chaired the meeting that was instrumental in establishing a campaign for a University of Wales.  William Williams died on 26 April 1865, after falling from his horse in Hyde Park, London.

Born on this day 1848 in Nant y glo, near Ebbw Vale.

Beriah Gwynfe Evans - journalist, Congregationalist, dramatist, Liberal politician, Welsh Nationalist and a member of the Gorsedd.

Initially, a teacher, in 1891, Evans switched to a career in journalism with the South Wales Daily News in Cardiff, whilst also editing Welsh items in the South Wales Weekly News and the Cardiff Times. In 1892, he moved to Caernarfon to become managing editor of the Welsh National Press Co and in 1917 he became editor of the Congregationalist weekly Y Tyst.

Politically, Beriah Evans was an ally of David Lloyd George, an active member of Cymru Fydd and in his final years, joined the newly formed Plaid Cymru.