Easter Sunday saw four drivers with their tractors from Brecon and Radnorshire attend the National Vintage Tractor Road Run in Pencoed, Bridgend.

The local drivers were part of the 420 assembled tractors from all over Great Britain who raised £20,000, split equally between the Welsh Air Ambulance and Marie Curie charities.

This event, which moves around Britain every year, has been held previously in Sennybridge in 2002 and Knighton in 2018.

Special mention must go to hardcore tractor driver, Martyn Nicholls of New Radnor who drove his 1977 County 1174 the 80 miles to the event in three and half hours to be at the start venue ready for the 9:30am start.

The drivers completed the 30-mile route, which went through villages and towns packed with spectators. The run offered spectacular views across the Vale of Glamorgan and the South Wales Coast, taking in sights over the Bristol Channel to the West Country, across the Afon Ogwr estuary to Porthcawl, and the sand dune complex of Merthyr Mawr. The drivers then went back to Pencoed, with Martyn retracing his steps back home for 7pm.

He was joined on the run by Breconshire participants Colin Lewis of Talgarth, on his 1960 Radnorshire registered International B275, Defynnog’s Rees Price with his 1955 Ferguson TED 20 and Trecastle’s Phil Evans with his cabbed John Deere 1120 - taking part in his first National Tractor Run.