I wasn't going to speak in this debate—I only put the request in when I heard the Chair's opening comments. I very much welcome the committee's work and recommendations to promote local and Welsh history. And it was only on Saturday that I was being lobbied by constituents specifically to ask the education Minister to include the teaching of our local heroes in schools. And it was on Saturday because it was 100 years to the day that we were commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the death of Pryce Jones, who was born and died in Newtown and changed the world. He was the founder of mail order, and he was the forerunner of Amazon. But, sadly, if you asked schoolchildren in Newtown, the chances are they would not know that fact. And the heritage hub for Newtown, promoting the event, was intending to ask the education Minister to consider what your report is outlining today.

But in Montgomeryshire, and in Newtown specifically, we have a number of local heroes. In fact, we've just named four new roundabouts after them on the Newtown bypass: Robert Owen, Pryce Jones, Laura Ashley and David Davies of Llandinam. But I know the education Minister can expect a letter—because I've seen a draft of the letter this morning and is on its way to her—from the heritage hub for mid Wales, asking for our local heroes to be included in the school curriculum. And the letter sets out also that on 14 May next year we will be celebrating a very special anniversary of the legacy of Robert Owen. And I should say, in 1816, Robert Owen opened the first free infant school in the UK.

This is perhaps where I disagree with David Melding who said, in his contribution, 'If we don't shout about our local heroes here in Wales, then nobody else will.' But, in fact, the—