'Very sensitive subject': plan to take Welsh water for London stirs painful memories

'Drowning' of village of Capel Celyn to provide water to Liverpool in the 60s remains an emotive issueOn a February night 60 years ago, three young men battled through blizzard conditions to plant a bomb at a construction site in a lonely Welsh valley. Their target was a dam being built by an English privatised water company to supply water for Liverpool.To provide million of litres a day for the English city, the people in the small Eryri (Snowdonia) village of Capel Celyn were to be evictedand their homes, farms, post office, school, chapel and cemetery flooded to create a reservoir. Continue reading...