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has been a magazine, newspaper and television journalist for more than 30 years and has lived in Bannau Brycheiniog National Park for almost as long. She is Vice Chair of the park’s Local Access Forum, an OS Champion, South Wales organiser for Adventure Queens and a trainee Mountain Leader. Her first long-distance walk

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