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On this day: Pembrokeshire Archive

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• Dai handles centre's four millionth call

  ITV Digital's Pembroke Dock contact centre is celebrating continued success after taking its four millionth incoming call. read more

• Americas Sweethearts

  This film, co-written by Billy Crystal, should have been a fascinating romantic comedy that explores love in the glare of celebrity and the competition between siblings, all cleverly played against a backdrop that shows the bare bones of the movie industrys efforts to sell itself to the world through modern media. read more

• Zephyr breezes home at last!

  A CLASSIC car proudly bearing the coveted Pembrokeshire DE registration has returned home to the county - after spending almost all its life in East Anglia. The Ford Zephyr, 305 EDE, was supplied new by Jeremys Garages, of Narberth, in 1959, when its price on the road was less than £1,000. read more

• Fall in number of women on the pill

  Only 39% of women attending family planning clinics in the Pembrokeshire and Derwen NHS Trust area opted for oral contraception as their main method of birth control during 1999-2000. read more

• Plague of giant rats

  A plague of rats is creating a climate of fear in a Pembrokeshire town. Rats the size of cats have been spotted in gardens on the Upper Lamphey Road, Pembroke. read more

• David's models are shipshape

  Model ship building is the passion of David James, honorary secretary of the West Wales Maritime Heritage Society, and vice-chairman of the Pembroke Dock Museum Trust. read more

• First private livestock collection centre

  Pembrokeshires first private livestock collection centre has been set up to supply lamb and beef direct to the Oriel Jones and Sons abattoir in neighbouring Ceredigion. read more

• Management training with tall ship challenge

  THE Pembrokeshire-based management training organisation, The Development Company, has recently taken to the sea and is offering leadership and team building courses with a difference. read more

• Patients sent overseas for medical treatment

  Two patients have been sent overseas for medical treatment as health officials in Pembrokeshire attempt to cut hospital waiting lists. read more

• Valley to be cleared of over 100,000 conifers

  LORRIES will shortly begin removing the first of over 100,000 conifers from a Gwaun Valley hillside as a major National Park restoration project finally gets under way. read more

• Battling Swifts snatch a point

  Tenby 1 Monkton Swifts 1 read more

On this day: Pembrokeshire Archive