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On this day: Pembrokeshire Archive

Pembrokeshire Archive

• At a crossroads

  Cross-breeding Holstein dairy cows with Jerseys is boosting milk income on Pembrokeshire's spring calving farms. read more

• Boswell beams over pack's power, but Pembroke bow out of the cup

  Pembroke 6 Cwmbran 23 read more

• Jobcentre Plus moves into call centre

  The economic gloom which shrouded Pembrokeshire following the dramatic closure of its flagship call centre is lifting as the second of the facility's new occupants moves in. read more

• Calendar marks 100th market

  The 100th Haverfordwest Farmers' Market takes place on Friday - and to mark the occasion the stallholders have produced a calendar. read more

• Dilapidated building lets down Pembroke

  Dear Editor, - I wonder if I could just have a shout as a born and bred Pemroke boy regarding the Lion Hotel. read more

• Quins struggle against Tonna's mighty forwards

  Tonna 6 Pembroke Dock Harlequins 19 read more

• Subsidy cut fears voiced to MPs

  Pembrokeshire livestock producers could lose up to two-thirds of their subsidy entitlements if CAP reform links future entitlements to land. read more

• £2m estate left to National Trust

  A £2 MILLION country estate in Pembrokeshire has been left to the National Trust. Judith Maurer could have used the complex of farmland and cottages at Newgale to indulge her love of the countryside and horses. read more

• Eight-goal Swifts are title contenders

  Monkton Swifts 8 Herbrandston 1 read more

• Hicks' brace gives Bluebirds the points

  CPD PORTHMADOG 0 HAVERFORDWEST COUNTY 2 read more

• Parking charges could drive away motorists

  TIME could be running out for the motorists who enjoy free public car parking in Pembrokeshire towns throughout the year. read more

• Oakwood bids to save Garden

  OAKWOOD boss Paddy McNamara has been in talks over securing the future of the National Botanic Garden of Wales. read more

• Alternatives to school

  DEAR EDITOR, - Your report on the recent 'Truancy Sweep' (October 1st) implies that school is compulsory. This is not so. Legislation requires children to receive an appropriate education and recognises that this may occur 'otherwise' than at school. Families can choose from a number of options, including part-time flexi-schooling or full-time home education. Far from 'bunking off' these children have every right to be visibly active in their communities during the hours other families use the service provided by schools. read more

• A tale of two towns

  DEAR EDITOR, - In the story 'Hundreds Join Trail To Dylan's Town' (October 15th), I noticed that the new Laugharne information centre is based at the Corran Bookshop. The word Corran is the Irish name for a reaping hook or sickle. The handle is a crude piece of wood and has a leather thong looped from the top to the bottom of it which goes over the knuckles. read more

• GM scholarship for local farmer

  Pembrokeshire potato grower Walter Simon, awarded a scholarship to study the impact of GM crop production on North American agriculture and the consumer, will present his findings to the 2003 Nuffield Conference next month. read more

• Horse drama is first past the post

  One thing that's really surprised me is the lack of press that one release has had this month. read more

• Creamery skyline evaporates

  THERE was no dynamite, no high profile guests. Just a handful of local residents and officials - huddled on the pavement opposite the redundant Whitland creamery - watching as workmen pulled down huge chunks of the factory's main building. read more

• All jazzed up with somewhere to go

  To perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London is the dream of many musicians. This dream will become a reality for the players of the Pembrokeshire Schools' Jazz Ensemble on Monday, when, under the leadership of their musical director Gareth Sanders, they will open the Schools' Prom Concert in London. read more

• Artist brings dinosaurs alive

  THERE'S a colourful children's book hitting the shops this autumn and the fabulous illustrations inside have been created by a home-grown talent from Pembrokeshire. Alex Steele-Morgan, from Haverfordwest, has brought 'Find-a-Saurus' alive, with vibrant and vivid drawings of dastardly dinosaurs. read more

• Musical marriage made in heaven

  Elysium 1 CD Launch Theatr Mwldan Media Centre October 18th read more

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