And his tirade became even more inflamed when he referred to the controversial incident in the 1960s, when the village of Capel Celyn in the Tryweryn valley, near Bala in Gwynedd, was flooded by the Liverpool Corporation to provide drinking water for the city.

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The land, which was sold to raise money for the Regeneration Investment Fund, varies in size and value from a former industrial site in the Cynon Valley to offices in a business park in Newport to farmland in Gwynedd.

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The Forth Bridge will be one of a select group of locations that have been awarded World Heritage Site Status in the UK. These include the Heart of Neolithic Orkney, the Derwent Valley Mills and the Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd.

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