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  • Making waves for good cause

    A beach rendezvous in Tenby is being planned on Sunday as charity walkers and sailors raise funds for the charity Kidney Wales Foundation. Coinciding with the Tenby Walk for Life, a crew from Svitzer Marine at Pembroke Port, Pembroke Dock,

  • Youth Fest planners pick up prestigious award

    A music festival set up by young people for young people in Pembrokeshire has won a new national award. The South West Youth Fest, run by the Garage Youth Centre in Haverfordwest, was presented with an inaugural Youth Work in Wales Excellence

  • Patients put the art into St Caradog

    Patients at a Pembrokeshire psychiatric in-patient unit are continuing to express themselves, and improve the healthcare environment, through the form of art. With assistance from ArtsCare Gofal Celf artist Daniel Backhouse, patients at St

  • Concerns grow over Carn Ingli bracken spray plan

    Concern is mounting over controversial plans to spray chemicals on areas of Carn Ingli. Proposals by the graziers association, which manages the common land on Newport mountain, to tackle bracken with the herbicide Asulox have divided the community.

  • Josh ready to join Arsenal

    Teenager Josh Rees, whose grandfather Peter played football for Neyland in his youth, seems set for a great future in first class football. Josh, a 16-year-old who lives at Hadleigh, near Benfleet, in Essex, and is in the English Under-18 squad, has

  • Lleucu's fund reaches £26,000 target

    A fund set up for a two-year-old with a one in a billion condition has reached its target of £26,000 in just six months, thanks to the efforts of the local community. Lleucu Griffiths Edwards of Ferwig, is one of only seven children in the

  • Milk mistake costs farmer £4,015

    An organic farmer behind the prestigious Daioni milk brand will have to pay out more than £4,000 after contravening food standard regulations when his dairy herd was devastated by bovine TB. Laurence Richard Harris, of Ffosyficer farm, Abercych

  • Warning of job losses if quarry plans are rejected

    More than 40 people could lose their jobs if plans to extend two north Pembrokeshire quarries are rejected. And there could be a serious knock-on effect for the local economy, a public enquiry has been told. Objections to plans to extend both Pantgwyn

  • Mum given one more chance to send kids to school

    A Milford Haven mother has been given ‘one more chance’ after knowingly failing to ensure the attendance of two of her children at school. The mother, who cannot be named, appeared at Haverfordwest magistrates court last Monday pleading guilty

  • Chevron boss moving on as sale plan continues

    Chevron’s general manager has announced he is leaving the Pembroke refinery, just two weeks after plans to sell the plant were revealed. Tom Kovar has announced that he will take up a new post at Chevron’s Pascagoula site in Mississippi, America. He