Coordinates: 51°48′54″N 3°52′17″W / 51.81512°N 3.87136°W / 51.81512; -3.87136

Brynamman (Welsh: Brynaman) is a village sitting on the south facing side of the Black Mountain, part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The village is split in two into Upper Brynamman and Lower Brynamman by the River Amman which also acts as the boundary between the counties of Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot (the old county of Glamorganshire). Ruins of stone dwellings (possibly prehistoric), an early type of lime kiln and rectangular medieval buildings found on the mountain show that man has lived in this area for a long time.

In the 18th century the industrial revolution, in the form of iron and tin works and especially coal mining, transformed the area from a small, scattered farming community to a built-up, highly populated commercial centre. The Welsh language was at the fore and the successful participation in local and national eisteddfodau by numerous village people, choirs and bands put Brynamman on the map.

Jackie Bird (born 31 July 1962 in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire) is a Scottish journalist and newsreader, working for BBC Scotland.

After working as a reporter for The Sun newspaper, Bird joined Television South in Maidstone as a reporter and presenter for the South East edition of regional news programme Coast to Coast.

She has been a main presenter of Reporting Scotland and other BBC Scotland programming (including Hogmanay Live and Children in Need output) for over twenty years.

She is also a newspaper columnist and has written and produced comedy series The Lewis Lectures and Having it All for BBC Radio Scotland.

Bird has also worked as a backing singer for the band Echo & the Bunnymen