Archive

  • Put pen to paper for chance to win £250

    THE search is on to find the best poets and short story writers in time for this year’s PENfro Book Festival.Hoping to build on the success of last year’s open poetry competition, PENfro is also launching an open short story competition for

  • One Act Play Competition 2014

    PEMBROKESHIRE Drama Association's One Act Play competition for 2014 takes place at the Torch Theatre in Milford Haven on Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3 at 7.30pm.Cardigan Theatre presents Syrinx by Kate Mosse, Clarbeston Road Players presents Duplex

  • Obituaries for April 23 2014

    Mr W B James Penally MR WILLIAM Benjamin James (Billy) passed away peacefully at his home in Holloway Court, Penally on February 26. He worked at Lydstep Home Farm and Lydstep Caravan Park. His main interests were his children, grandchildren

  • Muddying the waters

    ANDREW Pierce writes in the Daily Mail (Monday, April 7, 2014) that it is typical of UKIP’s mixed thinking to call for the introduction of solar panels on pensioners’ homes, even though Nigel Farage and co believe that man made global warming is a

  • An accident caused by good intent

    WE refer to the article in the Western Telegraph on April 2, regarding the incident at Northgate Street, Pembroke, where one of our vehicles came into contact with a bay window. It is company policy not to comment on any incident until it has been

  • Continuing excellence at our hospital

    DESPITE all the political ballyhoo about the NHS in Wales, it is great to be able to praise the continuing excellence of our hard-pressed health services at Withybush Hospital. Having just had my entire colon removed to treat bowel cancer, I am

  • Easter tourists left disappointed by bank holiday closures

    QUESTIONS have been asked as to why one of Fishguard’s biggest tourist attractions was closed over the Easter weekend.The clerk of Fishguard and Goodwick Town Council, Sarah McColl-Dorion has written to Pembrokeshire County Council after several

  • Roaring success for Caera

    AN 8-YEAR-OLD girl from Pembroke Dock has banked herself £200 by picking the winning name for a baby dragon.Caera Lewis was one of two young winners in a Principality Building Society competition to name the firm’s newest mascot – a

  • Classic Brecht play comes to Fishguard

    ON Thursday, May 1 Fluellen Theatre Company presents Bertolt Brecht's The Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui at Theatr Gwaun.Arturo Ui is a small-time gangster in 1930`s Chicago, and like Al Capone and John Dillinger before him, he wants to make it big.

  • Tusk and Bronze Age treasure make for an exciting year

    FROM Quakers to Qatar, a lot has happened in Milford Haven in the last 200 years. And Milford Haven Museum, which has just re-opened for the 2014 season - is the perfect place to learn about everything from whaling and fishing to coal, gas and the First