A BRECON born pensioner is to join a peaceful trespass of the Epynt Army Range on Armed Forces Day in a pilgrimage against the 'militarisation' of Wales.

This weekend Harley Simpson, 70, formerly of the Struet, will travel from his home in Devon to join members of Cymdeithas y Cymod (the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Wales) to protest at the Army's confiscation of 54 farms and 30,000 acres of the Epynt in June 1940.

Read the full story in this week's Brecon & Radnor Express - Out now!