Brecon Beacons: Park to use Welsh name Bannau Brycheiniog

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Brecon Beacons National Park changes to Welsh name

Brycheiniog - named after 5th Century King Brychan - was an independent kingdom in the early middle ages, and its borders roughly match those of the national park today.Resmi Satheesan says it is the place people will travel for regardless of what it is called

Laura Howell, from the Gower, Swansea, added: "People will probably keep calling it the Brecon Beacons I imagine, but for those who are Welsh speakers it's a bit of pride and I think it's great that it will be referred to the Welsh way of saying it.Laura Howell from Swansea says the name change is "great" and a point of "pride" for Welsh people

These include a 30% decline in farmland birds since the 1970s, as well as 67% of waterbodies within the Wye catchment, and 88% of Usk waterbodies failing pollution targets.

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