The rug man has left his shop now, and the front window has been filled with a wood burning stove from FJ Williams. They run the hardware warehouse just outside town, and they have a stove fair every year. This year it's going to be held in the old rug shop, because they've bought the property, and they want to let out the shop and the flat above.
Meanwhile, the River Wye has been on the regional news on TV. Pearl mussels, which once were common in Welsh rivers, are now teetering on the edge of extinction, so a conservation programme has begun to save them. This involves men in waders holding glass bottomed boxes into the water so they can see the bottom, in order to collect the mussels they find. These are then transferred to a place near Brecon where the mussels will be encouraged to breed - and the new young mussels will be released back into the wild. They said it would take five years, but it was reversing a two hundred year trend.
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