but time and technologies have moved on enormously to the point where the traditional trig pillar is now obsolete in its original guise. “They still act as a beacon for many an outdoors lover ...

Consistently voted as one of the most 'Instagrammable' peaks in Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons), there are often queues at the trig point at the top for those covered shots of the summit.

A war memorial plaque has been stolen from a plinth on a summit in the Brecon Beacons. The plaque, engraved with lines from Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen, was removed from a trig point in ...