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Country Focus: A Dirty River and the Fashion Designer

A Dirty River and the Fashion Designer

BBC Radio Wales - Country Focus, A Dirty River and the Fashion Designer

The 'dirty' river of the Garw Valley, and celebrating 70 years of Laura Ashley.

The Garw WI take a walk to highlight their local river as being one of the worst polluted rivers in the country.  And 70 years of design excellence - a rural Welsh fashion icon.

Fed up with high sewerage discharges into their local river the Garw WI organise a walk to show their disgust!  We speak to Dwr Cymru Welsh Water about the sewage being dumped in the River Garw. 
Green prescribing - could it save the NHS millions of pounds? The Wildlife Trusts certainly think so - we join a guided walk with Gwent Wildlife Trust and ask a GP if they would prescribe a dose of nature?!
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the iconic fashion brand - Laura Ashley.  Her designs travelled the world, but many were created in rural mid-Wales.

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