September 2026 Dai's walk around Wales blog

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BURIED IN GLYNNEATH 2 - TOXIC WASTE DUMP MISREPRESENTATION - PLANNING PROCESS - DEVELOPMENT MANAGER - PRIVATE COMPANY INFORMATION

This video is the second in our series looking at how a toxic waste dump where barrels of toxic waste have been reported to have dumped has been given planning permission to be built on. Historically the land has been a council ash tip and an industrial landfill site but the local council say there is no landfill site in the area. We discover in the video what the problem is, the planning process which relies on information provided by the developer.

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3 G walk along Neath canal to the Snow's quarry in Tonna & Moss House reservoir for sunset. Great Beard shall be known on this occasion as Gone Beard.

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MICHAEL SHEEN BURIED EVIDENCE SESSION CONTAMINATED LAND WELSH AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 2026 10 SEPTEMBER - In this video we see the full meeting where Welsh actor Michael Sheen together with investigative journalists Lucy Taylor and Dan Ashby answer questions based upon the knowledge they have gained collecting evidence on contaminated land in Wales over the last 10 years. The Welsh Affairs Committee is responsible for scrutinising the expenditure, administration and policies of the Wales Office, and the policies of the UK Government as a whole that have an impact in Wales.

A 8 mile stroll on Craig-y-Llyn to include a circuit encompassing the Llyn Fach near shore. I didn't intend to be out that long but sunset appeared as I descended off the mountain.

There's a nice article on Rugby in the Welsh Valleys in the Italian sports magazine Athleta this month with an on-line interview and photographs from my collection.

This is the song of the Valleys. A song with rugby at its very centre. So attest the voices of collector Dai Richards and Treorchy RFC Vice Chairman Ralph Waldin. Their lives and testimonies, accompanied by a series of exclusive photographs, reveal why rugby continues to breathe and endure in a part of Wales that made a religion of the Game..................

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At approximately 11.45 on 5 August 2025 Leighton Adams of Andrew James Enforcement knocked on our door at 66 Brynhyfryd demanding that I pay my council tax. I provided evidence of the reasons why I wasn't paying my council tax, because of NPTC covering up child abuse and also covering up the corporate manslaughter of Glynneath residents. He placed a letter under the mat on our doorstep. He left after suggesting that I should be paying the council tax because the council collect my bins.

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Taking a sun filled break at Llyn Fach on a 9 mile Glynneath, Blaengwrach,Llyn Fach, Rhigos, Pontwalby loop. 20 minutes later it hammered down and I got soaked. I met Tom from Rhigos at Llyn Fach who had cycled there. He flew passed me just as it started to rain, gravity was his friend.

	SUNRISE	SUNSET
		5 - Moss House reservoir, Neath
		15 - Hirfynydd
		25