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• Child porn driving instructor guilty

  A Fishguard driving instructor toured the internet looking for child porn, a judge heard on Friday. read more

• Ex-nursing home boss loses appeal

  A former nursing home boss convicted for allowing cannabis to be grown at a property he owned in Essex, possession of crack cocaine while in South Africa and driving a car with two residents of a Pembrokeshire home on board, when over the drink drive limit, lost his appeal to be restored to the nursing register on Wednesday. read more

• AM urged to step in to prevent CAP losses

  The politician representing Pembrokeshire farmers at the National Assembly is being urged to step in to help hundreds of farm businesses facing losses through CAP reform proposals. read more

• In celebration of building history

  THREE local experts have pooled their considerable knowledge in the latest Yale University Press edition of the Buildings in Wales series. read more

• Aero staff save factory

  A FOUR-WEEK battle to save a Pembrokeshire factory from closure succeeded this week when its workforce took over the business. read more

• Financial implications face scheduled airport

  Without the massive industrial foundation of larger connurbations or the broad-based tourism found elsewhere, the prospects of Withybush generating major income as a scheduled airport appear to be slim. Despite the considerable investment of the last few years, extending the east-west runway and installing lighting, improving navigational aids and building new hangarage, the airport lacks the 24-hour all-weather capability and necessary air traffic control approval to handle scheduled flights. Non-directional beacon and distance measuring equipment provide pilots with navigational assistance, but instrument landing systems are not installed and even if they were, they would be constrained by the close proximity of the A40 trunk road on the western perimeter. Any major scheme to develop the airport for more commercial services would not only be enormously costly, but would have to be decided by a public inquiry, which would consider environmental safeguards with regard to noise and safety and also the viability of such a venture. read more

• Telegraph Sport joins forces with district rugby

  pembrokeshire & district rugby association - schools and wru partnership read more

• Launch gig gets the crowd moving

  Lift The Latch CD launch gig Love Rocket/Skeptic John?/Dirty Dog/Kotow Merlin Theatre, Pembrokeshire College March 10th read more

• Wetherspoon 'threat to local pubs'claim

  Locally-run public houses in Haverfordwest town centre could be closed down if JD Wetherspoon decides to turn the historic Shire Hall site into a theme pub. read more

• Wind of change blows through National Park

  THE Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority has installed its first wind turbine, making it Britain's first Park Authority to use energy generated in this way. read more

• View air network with caution

  DEAR EDITOR, - For some time there have been rumours, consistently denied, that Pembrokeshire County Council wished to relocate the County Show away from Withybush. Last week's Western Telegraph disclosure now clearly confirms the rumours. Proposals for an 'intra Wales air network involving Haverfordwest' should be viewed with some degree of caution. I say this from personal experience gained during the period of Dyfed County Council when attempting with others to raise the profile and use of the airport. read more

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