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Brecon Beacons renamed
THE Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales announced that as from its 66th anniversary which was on Monday April 17 it will use the name Bannau Brycheiniog.
Those who run the park say the change will celebrate and promote the area’s culture and heritage. It is part of a management overall to address environmental challenges.
Brycheiniog was named after the fifth century King Brychan who ruled over this independent kingdom in the early middle ages.
The Welch names means ‘the peaks of Brychan’s kingdom’. You pronounce the name banaye bruch ein log with the ch in bruch pronounced like the word loch.
The National Park’s chief executive, Catherine Mealing Jones said: “It just felt the right time to reclaim the old name for the area (it) reflects our commitment to the Welsh language.
“But we understand people are used to calling the park by the name everyone’s used for 66 years, so we don’t expect everyone to use it, at least straight away.”
The park covers almost 529 square miles (1.347 sq km) of south and mid wales. About four million visitors come to Bannau Brycheiniog every year.
Coronation train
Anna Ellis
LONDON North Eastern Railway (LNER) is proud to launch a newly named service to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, May 6.
From May 6, the daily 11.00am service between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley will be called the ‘Carolean Express’, with the inaugural service departing the iconic London station at 11.00am on the day of the King’s Coronation.
The era of British history under King Charles III will be known as the Carolean
Emergency landing
A CO-PILOT was forced to take over the controls of an easyJet flight after the pilot was taken ill.
On Friday, April 21, a flight from London on its way to Morocco ended up being diverted 500 miles after the pilot became ill midflight, leaving the copilot to make an emergency landing in Portugal, according to a news source.
At approximately 6.30am an easyJet flight left from London Gatwick and was on its way to Agadir, Morocco but had to be diverted nearly 500 miles away to Faro in Portugal.
era, the same name that was given to the eras of both King Charles I and II.
The ‘Carolean Express’ will join formal service names such as ‘Highland Chieftain’ and ‘Northern Lights’ which are popular daily services on the LNER route, operating between London and Inverness and London and Aberdeen.
The weekday ‘Flying Scotsman’ service operates in the opposite direction, taking customers to London King’s Cross from Edinburgh Waverley at 5.40am, stopping only at Newcastle.
It was reported that the copilot landed the aircraft safely with 100 passengers on board at Faro airport.
The Airbus A320 was seen on online flight trackers making an unscheduled stop after a midair alert.
A source at Faro airport commented that the diversion was the result of the pilot suffering an ‘indisposition,’ a red alert had been sent and the copilot completed a successful landing.
The condition of the pilot and the cause of his illness is as yet unknown.
BRITISH actress Rachel Warren on mega success, new releases, and the tough road to the top.
They say the course of true love never did run smooth, and as it turns out the course of mega successful careers isn’t that different either.
Despite its glamorous exterior, acting is one of the notoriously harshest of careers to make a name in, with a remarkable only 2 per cent of actors ever even making a living.
For those who do tread that path though undeterred by the knock backs, the low pay and the often farfromglamorous hoursthe payoff can often be something quite extraordinary.
Now 38 and about to star in not only a new Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde remake but also her own series, the actress and producer sat down with the Euro Weekly News to talk US success, the importance of backing yourself, and the long road to the top.
Originally from Buckinghamshire, Rachel told the EWN acting has been practically a lifelong passion: “At five I pointed at the TV screen and I said ‘mummy
