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  • Charity fishing competition

    A CHARITY sea fishing competition will take place at Amroth beach on Saturday, October 12.It is in aid of Clic Sargent, a charity that cares for children with cancer.Competitors can pre-book entry on the Fishing Throughout Pembrokeshire Facebook page

  • Pembroke's Rock the Castle concert a sell-out success

    A SELL-OUT crowd of nearly 3,000 partied the night away at Pembroke Castle’s Rock The Castle concert at the end of last month (September).Pembroke Castle Trust staged the event to mark the 40th anniversary of the day the Rolling Stones nearly played

  • Celebrity chef on location at Freshwater West

    AN AWARD-WINNING Pembroke seafood company can add another string to its bow after featuring on a top celebrity chef’s television show.BBC2’s James Martin’s Food Map of Britain was on location at Freshwater West, home to The Pembrokeshire

  • County's Special Olympians honoured

    A GROUP of young sportsmen and women were invited to attend a special reception at County Hall last week. The eight young people represented Wales at the Special Olympic Summer Games in Bath, which took place from August 28 to September 1 and involved

  • Get active with the W.I

    A LADY from Letterston is on a mission to get women leading active lifestyles.Ann Newbery is involved in the Sporting Ambassadors project, an initiative between Sports Leaders UK and the National Federation of Women’s Institutes Wales.It trains

  • Film night at St John's Community Hall, Pembroke Dock

    FILM fans in Pembroke Dock will not need to make a trip to Haverfordwest or Carmarthen to watch a good film this weekend - Quartet is being shown at St John’s Community Hall on Friday (October 4) at 7pm. The film is about four friends who are residents

  • Cash prizes up for grabs in open event

    THE Osprey Sea Angling Club is busy preparing for their annual open competition that will take place at Amroth beach.Organiser John OConnor is expecting a good turnout that has some tremendous cash prizes and it's still not too late to enter the competition

  • Obituaries for September 25 2013

    Mr S P Griffiths Clarbeston Road MR Stephen Peter Griffiths of Walton East, Clarbeston Road, passed away peacefully at his home on Monday September 2, aged 58. Stephen lost his mother at a young age and he and his brother John were brought

  • Animals share secrets with club

    PEMBROKESHIRE’S Sign and Share Club enjoyed a wonderful day at Folly Farm this month. Three new members attended and the day was blessed by good weather. Organiser Shirley David said staff were extremely helpful in allowing the talks about the

  • Swim time special

    I HAVE been meaning to contact you for some time now to ask if anyone out there is as frustrated as I am over the lack of social / family swimming time Haverfordwest Leisure Centre provides during the week days during school term times. I wonder

  • Shoppers not encouraged

    WITH reference to the plans for another supermarket in Haverfordwest, supermarkets don’t encourage more people to shop in an area, but only in their own stores. A good example of this is Pembroke Dock. The people who visit Tesco including myself, hardly

  • Inflation questions

    HERE we go again. The Government has just announced that inflation has fallen to 2.6% despite the constant rises in food prices of 4% and other costs rising almost daily. So how can inflation fall? Could it be because rises in benefits and

  • Join it up

    I CAN but agree with Mr Gould of Bristol’s letter in last week’s Western Telegraph concerning parking charges in Pembrokeshire. Why Pembrokeshire County Council, National Parks and the National Trust cannot get together and issue a joint weekly

  • It's worrying

    SEVERAL times this year ,visitors in Haverfordwest’s High Street have asked me “Where’s the town centre?” or “Where’s Boots?” This is worrying. Visitors will not come back if they find emptiness rather than the “historic market town” advertised

  • Don't hack our hedges

    YET again autumn rolls in and yet again the extreme hedge-cutters are back in business. Yesterday, (we are only in September!) I followed a convoy of three hedge-cutters and then passed a hedge at least a mile long in an extreme shaved state.