When we first learned that Labour ministers had purchased a £4.25 million farm in Talybont-on-Usk for the Green Man Festival, there were many questions raised. It didn’t pass the ‘sniff test’. Something wasn’t right.

Why were Green Man so lucky as to be able to unlock this level of taxpayer spending without even having to put forward a proper business case, as all other business asking for government support have to do?

Why did Labour buy a working farm for a musical festival which had no plans on moving its base?

So, journalists started looking into it, I started firing questions at ministers, and the community around Talybont on Usk quickly sprung into action to get to the bottom of things. Even Senedd committees were digging into the story.

But the more we all looked into this story, the stranger it became, and the questions just kept piling up.

We were told by Labour ministers that Green Man were a ‘trusted partner’ of the Welsh Government’s, which apparently meant they didn’t have to draw up detailed explanations of their plans for Gilestone Farm until after the farm was purchased.

I know there will be many businesses, not least farming businesses, in Wales who would be very eager to secure that ‘trusted partner’ status, given the 250 acre benefits that came to Green Man Festival.

We learned that Fiona Stewart, Green Man’s MD, will be living in the eight bedroom farmhouse on Gilestone Farm.

Things took an even more murky turn when it emerged that two key Labour ministers had gathered in the house of a senior Cardiff Bay lobbyist with her client, Fiona Stewart. This meeting wasn’t declared by the ministers, because it was apparently a ‘social’ gathering, and didn’t constitute official lobbying.

Even still, those ministers have recused themselves from any future decision making on the subject.

And still we’re not at the bottom of things.

We don’t know what the plans are for Gilestone Farm.

We don’t know what impact those plans will have on the wildlife at Gilestone Farm.

We don’t know what was discussed at that lobbyist’s home in Cardiff at that dinner party with the Green Man boss and the ministers she was paying to access.

I know that the Talybont-on-Usk community are doing everything they can to hold these decisions to account and to get answers. And though they may stonewall lots of our questions, the truth will come out, and the murky waters will clear.

In the meantime, I want to thank the incredible journalism of this publication, and of course many others, and the dedication of the Talybont-on-Usk community, and of James Evans, the local Senedd Member, who has passionately raised this issue several times in the Welsh Parliament.

Together, we have forced Labour ministers to provide some clarity, and I know that none of us are ready to give up yet.

We’ve shown that you can’t just slip things past the people of Wales. Let’s keep going. Let’s get to the bottom of this, once and for all.