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Pembrokeshire Archive

• CAB did not fund couple's claim

  THE Citizens' Advice Bureau has asked us to point out that the point relating to costs in the report of Andrew and Sally McHardy's (Caldey Island) industrial tribunal ruling was misleading. read more

• County hosts 'best-ever' Wales YFC eisteddfod

  Within Wales there is an immensely strong tradition of literature, music, and song and this was fully displayed by young farmers from all areas as they competed at the movement's best-ever national bilingual eisteddfod hosted by Pembrokeshire Federation at a packed Ysgol Bro Gwaun, Fishguard. read more

• Gyda Llaw

  TRI chynnig i Gymro neu Gymraes yn l yr hen ddihareb. Dwi'n amhau chewch chi ddim cymaint o ryddid hynny ym materion y galon - ond o leiaf os ydych chi wedi anghofio taw dydd Santes Dwynwen oedd hi ddoe, mae'na gyfle i chi faldodi'ch cariad eto ar Chwefror 14. read more

• Young bands give their all for disaster appeal

  The artistically draped chilli lights were an indicator of how hot a night this was going to be. read more

• Health trust appoints new medical director

  PEMBROKESHIRE and Derwen NHS Trust has appointed Dr Charles Merrill as medical director for acute and community services, following the retirement of Dr Peter Jackson. read more

• More stores to head for county

  THE announcement that the giant food chain Asda is to take over the Co-op supermarket in Pembroke Dock, has fuelled speculation that other retail and business developments are in the pipeline for the town. read more

• Unfair treatment of Welsh regiments

  Dear Editor, - As a Welshman and former serving soldier, I was dismayed to learn that in the Government's recent re-organisation of infantry regiments, Wales is being treated less equitably than Scotland. read more

• Tank firing slammed as 'horrendous'

  A RETIRED soldier living a mile from a military training range claims his human rights are being violated by the noise levels associated with tank firing. read more

• Grand sum for appeal

  Pupils of Ysgol Dewi Sant in St Davids raised £1,000 at a recent fundraising day for the victims of the tsunami. read more

• Elonwy is new YFC president

  The newly-elected president of Carmarthenshire Federation of Young Farmers Clubs is Elonwy Phillips, of Brynsiriol, Heol y Gogledd, Whitland. read more

• We back consultant

  DEAR EDITOR, - We are disgusted that Dr Overton, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Withybush Hospital, has been suspended by Frank O'Sullivan, chief executive of the Pembrokeshire and Derwen National Health Trust for exercising his human rights and freedom of expression. read more

• Tsunami agencies link up thanks to local company

  An electronic conferencing system which will connect all aid agencies working in tsunami-hit areas has been launched in Cardigan. read more

• Doctor's rights have been denied

  Dear Editor, - The scandalously disproportionate sentence of suspension of the consultant gynaecologist Chris Overton for having the temerity to make publicly known his disagreement with the controversial decision of the hospital trust to close several gynaecology beds has led me to reflect that if Dr Eirian Williams had not been so persistently and publicly outspoken in the 1960s about the then Regional Hospital Board's policy to downgrade services in Pembrokeshire then there might have been no hospital in Haverfordwest from which Mr Overton could have been suspended. read more

• 'Withybush will never be regional airport'

  Withybush will never become a regional airport, members of the county economy committee were told by director of development, Roger Barrett-Evans, on Thursday. read more

• Milk price cuts u-turn

  Milk producers supplying the Dansco cheese-making factory at Newcastle Emlyn have been told plans to cut their milk price have been abandoned. read more

• Seagulls slip up

  Rugby - Division Four (West): Laugharne 27 Fishguard & Goodwick 7 Laugharne completed the double over Fishguard as they followed their earlier 22-14 success at The Moors with this comfortable win as they outscored the Seagulls by five tries to one. read more

• Bumper fortnight of film

  The eleventh Mwldan Film Festival is under way - the first to be held in the newly completed Theatr Mwldan. read more

• National honours

  The year has begun in style for members of Pembrokeshire YFC, with news that the county has been awarded the reserve champion trophy for competitions at national level. read more

• Neyland survive Dock shock

  Indoor Cricket League (Sponsored by Martin Davies Health Club): Neyland started their 2005 season with a bang as they beat both Narberth and Pembroke Dock in week two of matches at the Meads Sports Centre in Milford Haven. read more

• Stars make chatter matter

  IF you could be any character from a nursery rhyme, which one would it be? read more

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