RETIRING newsagent Michael Edwards and his wife Gillian received a bouquet of flowers and an award on the occasion of their retirement.

Mr Edwards closed the doors to M&G Newsagents on The Watton in Brecon on March 31. If he cannot sell the business as an ongoing concern he intends to convert the shop into a flat which he will then sell off.

In the week he shut the premises for the last time he was visited by Brecon mayor Cllr Ieuan Williams and Cllr Grenville Ham, the chair of the town council’s fishing committee, as well as the water bailiff Ray Savage and presented with a letter of thanks and a glass paperweight in recognition of his shop’s role in selling fishing licences for a 2km stretch of the River Usk near the town. Anyone wishing to fish the Breconshire Usk Fishing Association waters can purchase tickets for this season from The Guildhall, BVG Airflo, The Hours and The Wye and Usk Foundation.