Since 2021, Wales has lost 20 Blue Flags. The country also has 14 beaches with a Green Coast Award - up one since 2022 - but just 12 with a Seaside Award, down from 23 in 2022. The Blue Flag award ...

Every year, Keep Wales Tidy announces which of Wales's beaches have achieved Blue Flag status ... have some of the best coastal areas in the country. But there's a reason for this.

The standard bears a marked similarity to the arms of Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, the flag of the royal house of Gwynedd. Llewelyn was the last prince of Wales prior to its conquest by Edward I.

With the invasions of the Angles and Saxons, the Britons were driven back towards Wales. By the seventh century ... It was the beginning of the flag as we know it today.