Brecon Beacons News Archive

 Most recent articles are listed in date descending order in left column.

• Corn Du, Pen y fan and Cribyn will open from Friday 16th November .Access is from Storey Arms, Neuadd Reservoir, and from the Gap Road via a stile to Cribyn.
• Mountain Centre reopens to visitors

October 2001

• Powys County Council reopens large areas of the Brecon Beacons - Pen Y Fan and much of the central massif remains closed Fan Frynach open check the website for precise guidelines 
• Tourist attractions in mid Wales have been boosted by actor and council for national parks president Brian Blessed, who has urged visitors to return to the Brecon Beacons.
• Second Home Boom in Brecon Beacons predicted to follow Foot & Mouth
• Abergavenny says no to Macdonalds outside town.

August 2001 

• Graziers on the Brecon Beacons are considering taking legal action after sheep were slaughtered, they claim, without their consent.
• Tests on Hefted Sheep in Ystradfellte prove negative
• New Tests Negative so far so good - the National Assembly has no further plans for culling  in the Brecon Beacons. 
• Culling "Cure" Reaches Climax Stage in Beacons
• Farmers annoyed at Brecon Jazz Festival
• Fire Break Cull on the Brecon Beacons
• Thousands more sheep to be culled but negative results in some area is raise hopes that the disease is not endemic in the Brecon Beacons.
• Extensive testing for virus to take place in the Brecon Beacons after meeting with graziers in Brecon today.
• Virus testing to be extended to other flocks in the Brecon Beacons.
• Open letter from the National Park Authority to the National Assembly
• Culling of a further 1500 sheep in the Brecon Beacons has been completed
• Further 1500 sheep to be culled in Brecon Beacons

• Fear that foot and mouth now threatens the entire flock of 100,000 sheep in the Beacons

• July 2001 

• Fears mount that the infection in the Brecon Beacons has spread further afield.

• Further 2000 sheep maybe culled in the Brecon Beacons - fears of further culling throughout locality.

• A fourth case of foot-and-mouth, within a week, has been confirmed near Libanus in the Brecon Beacons National Park. Fears are growing as tests results are awaited that the 10,000 sheep grazing on the Central Beacons maybe infected. If this proves to be the case containment of the spread of infection will be even more difficult. BBC News Article.

• Vets Carry Out Extensive Testing on hundreds of sheep grazing on the Beacons following cull of thousands of animals at Libanus.

• Four cases of foot and mouth in Crickhowell - fears are growing that wide areas of open grazing on the Beacons have been infected.

• Thousands of sheep brought down from the Sugar Loaf Mountain as massive cull continues. Fears grow that infection will have spread further Sugar Loaf CLOSED.

• Up to 13,000 sheep are being herded in from the Brecon Beacons for blood tests

• Officials have begun moving the remains of thousands of cattle carcasses from Sennybridge

• National Assembly orders cull of 4,000 sheep on the Brecon Beacons as blood tests confirm presence of foot and mouth. The cull will commence on Friday 27th July.

• Open letter from the National Park Authority to the National Assembly
• The slaughter of around 4,000 sheep in the Brecon Beacons has begun following a delay over a dispute over payment.
• Farmers await results of further blood tests on sheep in the Brecon Beacons as cull of 4000 sheep is completed. 

• Two outbreaks of Foot & Mouth close were reported on Saturday, at Llanigon near Hay-on-Wye, at Hadnock on the Wales-Hereford border. Western Mail Report
  
  Ghurkhas deployed in the Black Mountains to stop sheep from suspected localities wandering over the mountains and spreading infection.

• SAS unable to use Beacons

• Women have a testing time trooping in the Beacons

• Teacher Missing in Brecon Beacons

• Beacons Guest House Loses Trade as Foot and Mouth Continues

• Local Opposition to Wind Turbines Visible from Beacons

• A Quiet Weekend in the Country

• One Man's Walk on Snowdon may cost him £5000

• Foot and Mouth Outbreak moves closer to the Brecon Beacons

• February 2001

• Merthyr Tydfil - hometown of the new Versace

• Brecon People March in Protest against loss of Maternity Unit

• BBC Rescues Brecon Jazz Festival

• January 2001

• Sunday lunch at The Bull's Head, Craswell, Herefordshire - a Times Newspaper Review of this interesting pub on the edge of the Eastern Brecon Beacons near Offa's Dyke Footpath.

• November / December 2000

• Parliamentary Candidate Calls for Direct Elections to Brecon Beacons National Park Authority

• Iron Town awarded World Heritage Status on edge of World Class Landscape

• October 2000

• Brecon Beacons Innovative Televillage in Financial Difficulties   Times Newspaper Article about this hi tech cyber village.

• Battle to ban offroaders Sue Mabberly the Chief Warden comments on the adverse impact of four wheel drive vehicles in the Guardian.