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  • Join the Q

    There are three exhibitions at Oriel Q - the Queens Hall gallery - this month. In the main gallery, on the top floor, is a retrospective of paintings by Chris Payne. In her 70th year, Chris now lives in Narberth, having retired from teaching 10 years

  • Ignorance is a sign of the times

    Dear Editor - The reports that a majority of people do not know what road signs mean is both frightening and unacceptable. However, it would not be unreasonable to go further and suggest a majority on our roads do not know how to drive in a safe manner

  • Alarm over town's high business rates prompts meeting

    Alarm at the high business rate in Tenby is to be voiced to a Welsh Assembly Member at a meeting in the resort tomorrow (Thursday). The town does not qualify for Rural Rate Relief to keep business rate costs down, and with the recent huge increases across

  • Obituaries published on Wednesday 18th January 2006

    Here are the obituaries published in the Westrern Telegraph on Wednesday 18th January 2006 MR D. CRESSEY PEMBROKE DOCK The death occurred on December 26th at Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest, of Derek Cressey, 4 Greville Court, off Albion Square, Pembroke

  • Julia hits the road again

    A NARBERTH-BORN singer is taking on America again in her double-decker bus campaign for British music. Following a successful tour in 2005, Julia Jones will get on the road in the spring for the second BritBus Tour. The former Whitland Grammar School

  • I'm a believer

    The first gig of the new year saw a new band and a new female singer, cast in a mould other than that of singer-songwriter, make an appearance at the Fishguard Arms, Haverfordwest. Claudia and the Believers are fronted by cool, leggy, blonde Icelandic

  • New signs a rural menace

    Dear Editor - At whose bequest or insistence and at whose expense, are existing directional signs and other signs being raised up, or replaced with entirely new signs, to what might be called motorway level all along our main and minor rural roads? The

  • Finance is a taxing issue

    Dear Editor - Could I point out an error in the report on page five of last week's Western Telegraph, headlined 'Band D council tax set to rise'. The report says "the council's tax base has been set at £49.8 million." This is doubly wrong. Firstly the

  • Small school closure fear

    Dear Editor - I would like to express my great concern with the talk of closure of the smaller schools in Pembrokeshire. The one in particular which is near to my heart is Penally where my grandson attends. Surely every village should be allowed to retain

  • Real nappy project scorn was too rash

    Dear Editor - I wish to respond to the letter 'A nappy thought' written by Pembrokeshire County Councillor Tony Wilcox and published in the Western Telegraph (January 4th). The Strategic Recycling Scheme (SRS) project is funded by the European Objective

  • £13m Technium set to open in October

    THE £13million Technium being built in Pembroke Dock will be open for business in October, Pembrokeshire County Council has confirmed. A marketing drive to promote the facilities of the Cleddau Bridge Business Park centre to firms from the county and