Category: Wales
Date: 05.04.2005
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The 91Èȱ¬ has announced the appointment of two new members of the Broadcasting Council for Wales: Roy Grant from Newport and the Rt Rev Carl Cooper from Carmarthen.
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Mr Grant is a board member and trustee of Duffryn Community Link in Newport.
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The Rt Rev Cooper is the current Bishop of St Davids.
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The new members will take up their new positions later this month.
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Current Broadcasting Council for Wales members Eirlys Pritchard Jones from Peterston-super-Ely, Kate Woodward from Aberystwyth and Aled Jones Griffith from Caernarfon have also been retained for council service for another year.
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Professor Merfyn Jones, 91Èȱ¬ National Governor for Wales, said: "We are very lucky to have recruited these two key new members to the Broadcasting Council for Wales.
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"They each bring to the table a wealth of expertise through diverse experiences embracing the voluntary sector, community involvement, organisation, management, leadership and communication."
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Notes to Editors
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The Broadcasting Council for Wales (BCW) ensures that views of licence fee payers across the country are heard and represented through public meetings which are held the length and breadth of Wales.
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The BCW, which has up to 12 members, meets each month and is chaired by the National Governor who also sits on the 91Èȱ¬ Board of Governors.
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Roy Grant is a board member and trustee of Duffryn Community Link in Newport.
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A qualified toolmaker engineer for 21 years, he worked as a supervisor and production manager before becoming a taxi proprietor and mobile catering entrepreneur.
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In 1997 he was blinded by a haemorrhage and in 2003 he penned his life story, Darkness Turns To Light, under the name Roy Mackpenfield Grant.
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A key community figure in Duffryn, Roy also founded the Duffryn Community Cycle Care Club and an under-13s Disco.
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The Rt Rev Carl Cooper is Bishop of St Davids.
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He is a native of Wigan, Lancashire who first came to Wales as an undergraduate at Lampeter, where he took a degree in French before reading theology at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford.
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He subsequently gained a Master of Philosophy degree for a study in bilingualism in the church in Wales.
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He has served as curate in Llanelli and parish priest in Ciliau Aeron, Ceredigion.
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He has also served in Dolgellau and was Archdeacon of Meirionnydd before taking up his post in St Davids in 2002.
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He is a fluent Welsh-speaker.
