Brecon

/ ˈbrɛkən, ˈbrɛknɒk /

noun

1. a town in SE Wales, in Powys: textile and leather industries. Pop: 7901 (2001)

2. short for Breconshire

Example Sentences

Liberal Democrat MP for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe, David Chadwick, said he could not understand the decision given reducing waiting lists and getting people back into work were priorities of Labour governments in Cardiff and Westminster.

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Mohananeethan "Mohan" Muruganantharajah, from Swansea was visiting Sgwd y Pannwr falls at Bannau Brycheiniog, also known as the Brecon Beacons, with extended family in September 2023 when some of them "decided to enter the water as the weather was pleasant".

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The BBC investigation found concerns about Pierce were reported to Church officials in 1986 - 13 years before he became Bishop of Swansea and Brecon - but nothing was done.

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He became Bishop of Swansea and Brecon in 1999, and met the then Prince Charles, now King Charles, while he was on a visit to Swansea in 2002.

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She says Brecon Cathedral choirmaster David Gedge assaulted her on a choir exchange to Ireland in 2001 when she was 17 years old.

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