Wednesday, January 22, 2020 BandROnline @BnRExpress News 3 Praise for predecessors and ‘Freak’ snow caused crash POLICE were called after two vans collided in the Brecon Beacons following a “freak downpour” of snow. A Ford Transit community in maiden speech van and a Fiat Doblo NEW Tory MP Fay Jones has paid tribute to Ariane Brumwell nonetheless.” Johnathan Evans in the 2000s – she said her devoted to their service - championing what crashed on the A470, the last Conservative to represent Brecon and Reporter Ms Jones also paid tribute to her Lib first job was as a stagiare in his office at the they do to produce world class food and just north of the Storey Radnorshire before her, calling him a “good [email protected] Dem predecessor Jane Dodds, the MP from European Parliament. steward our precious natural environment.” Arms, on Wednesday, person”. August until November last year and the first The MP, who also previously worked Ms Jones, who also brought up her January 15. In her maiden speech in the House of Ms Jones, who lives in Brecon but is woman to be MP for the constituency. for Prince Charles, said she was proud intention to help tackle climate change with There were only Commons on Tuesday, January 21, Ms Jones originally from Cardiff, was supported She said: “I want to pay tribute to Jane and fortunate to be in Parliament: “I feel the help of farmers, mentioned local events minor injuries from the said wherever she goes in the constituency, by her father Gwilym Jones, former Dodds. Jane’s brief tenure in this house was enormously fortunate to be in this House such as the Brecon Jazz Festival and Green crash, which happened Chris Davies is praised as a “good person”. Conservative MP for Cardiff North from marked by her principled and courageous today for many reasons but largely because of Man Festival and the Hay Festival, described just before midday, and Mr Davies lost the seat due to a recall 1983 until 1997, who was sat in the public stance. the area I represent. as the “Woodstock of the mind”, and the late shut the road briefly petition after he was convicted of expenses gallery of the House of Commons when she “She continued in the long tradition of “Brecon and Radnorshire encapsulates ‘king’ of Hay-on-Wye, Richard Booth. while the vans were irregularities last year. He then failed to delivered her first speech in Parliament at distinguished Liberal Democrats to represent everything I am passionate about - farming, Of the Nepalese community within Brecon recovered. regain it in an August by-election won by the around 3pm yesterday. Ms Jones said it was Brecon and Radnorshire - many members books and the military.” and the links to the Ghurka regiment Ms Brecon Roads Liberal Democrats. a special moment for her, especially as one of will remember Roger Williams fondly, and Ms Jones, who spoke about the “beauty” Jones said: “One military link I am especially Policing Unit tweeted Ms Davies, who celebrated her 35th the first female Conservative MPs in Wales. indeed the late Lord Livesey. of the landscape in Brecon and Radnorshire keen to promote. During the election I was about the incident and birthday on Sunday, said: “Chris Davies, my She said: “I feel humbled and privileged “I was struck during the election campaign said she is looking forward to championing pleased to meet Major Khusiman Gurung to thank drivers for immediate Conservative predecessor, is a to be here this afternoon, serving as the just how many constituents still refer to Welsh farmers and farming families. who served as Gurkha Major of the First their patience. man I look up to enormously. Member for Brecon and Radnorshire. Lord Livesey’s passion for Brecon and The MP, who described farming as Battalion of the Royal Gurkha Regiment. The The tweet said: “We “Like Lord Livesey, he was an outstanding “I am only the 17th person to have Radnorshire - something which I understand the “beating heart of mid Wales”, said: Gurkhas are well known for their strength dealt with a road traffic steward for his constituency. You cannot go that honour - and it is an honour and a and share.” “I am enormously proud that Brecon and in battle but also their devoted service collision on the A470 into a pub, a livestock market or a coffee responsibility I will never forget. Ms Jones, who also spoke about her career Radnorshire is home to thousands of farmers to the Crown. With the strong Gurkha just north of Storey shop without someone confirming they know “It is also very special for me to be one of working for the National Farmers Union and and farming families – all of whom ensure community living and working in Brecon, Arms earlier today due Chris well and what a good person he is. the first three female Conservative Members the Department for Environment, Food and that our villages and towns have a positive the relationship between Brecon and the to a freak downpour of “I will strive to be as devoted a champion of Parliament from Wales – a mark in history Rural Affairs, as well as for former Brecon future. Gurkhas is special, last year the town was snow.” for my community as Chris was.” which is long-overdue but very welcome and Radnorshire and later Cardiff North MP “In this chamber and in this job, I will be twinned with Dhampus, Nepal.” Phone scam can be abusive POLICE are warning residents in the History group Ystradgynlais area to be careful after reports of phone scammer, claiming to be from wants council to BT, becoming abusive. Ystradgynlais Police tweeted a warning on Sunday, January look again at its 19, to say they’d had reports of the criminals becoming abusive when challenged. slaver’s tribute The tweet said: “Please do not hand A PLAQUE commemorating Twm Owen any details out over the a slave ship captain should be News editor phone. If in doubt, hang removed unless it is amended, [email protected] up the phone.” a history group has said. done really easily, or if they are The warning came The plaque, which was first not able to do that the plaque only days after the proposed in 2009 and erected should be removed.” force said it had in 2010, is mounted on a wall Ms Caldicott said she been supporting an at Captain’s Walk in Brecon, understands the council elderly resident in adjacent to an area that is could discuss the plaque at its Ystradgynlais who had currently being revamped as monthly meeting next Monday, become a victim of part of a new garden walk January 27 where she is hoping courier fraud. linked to the £13 million y the council will agree to take Victims receive Gaer museum and library. some action over the plaque. a phone call from a But a history group has She said the history group fraudster claiming to said as the £600 slate plaque has been angered not only at be a police officer or a makes no direct reference to the failure to acknowledge bank official who then Captain Thomas Phillips’ role Phillips’ role in the slave trade says there is an issue in the grim transatlantic slave but the plaque ignores how at with the victim’s bank trade it fails to tell the true least 328 of the 700 Africans so they can gain access history of the man who lived the slavers were taking to the to financial details. at Glamorgan Street in Brecon West Indies died during the For more information and who the walkway is voyage. or report an incident understood to be named after. “The plaque doesn’t explain call Action Fraud on Phillips documented his he was the captain of a slave 0300 123 2040 or visit journey, in 1693, carrying ship and what happened on that its website. humans stolen from Africa to ship. It is misinformation,” said captivity and forced labour in Ms Caldicott. No source to the Caribbean, on the ship he She said she had only burning smell captained, the Hannibal, in his discovered there was a plaque Members of Brecon Town Council at the unveiling of plaque in 2010 with nuns who lived nearby and inset the journal. During the journey controversial wording on the plaque FIREFIGHTERS were commemorating Phillips, by called to a building in more than 300 of the captured, chance, after finding a copy including women and children, there were people campaigning against Ms Caldicott also said it is important despised for their colour a Rhayader following of his journal, A Voyage slavery during his lifetime. that Wales’ links with slavery are seeing what they cannot help reports of a burning died and its feared some were Made in the Hannibal, online thrown overboard. The plaque “To the ordinary person not knowing acknowledged and said cloth made and the effect of the climate smell but they were from an American museum the true history, and why would they?, in Brecon was also trade on the west God has given them. unable to find a fire. acknowledges Phillips as the while researching her book author and as a captain but coming across that plaque on the tourist coast of Africa in exchange for people “I cannot think there is s e e n Two crews from on women sailors, including a trail they would have no indication of and said she regretted objections to the any basic value in one colour Rhayader and there is no mention of slavery.