Rhondda Cynon Taff

The visit to Rhondda Cynon Taff, delayed by almost an hour due to train disruptions, marks the couple's first visit to Wales together since Catherine announced last March she had begun cancer treatment, following the King's own cancer diagnosis.

Second placed Sam, 46, from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff, said: "It was a very, very proud moment."

Housing association Trivallis said surveys found two properties at "critical risk" in Hirwaun in Rhondda Cynon Taff, but that 38 other properties have the same design.

Richard Bracey, from Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff, worked down the Tredegar mines in the 1940s.

Heading towards Tonypandy, I pass a few blocks of flats but interestingly the road outside remains at 30mph - one of more than 1,150 stretches of Welsh road, and 84 in Rhondda Cynon Taff, that are known as exemptions.