A child who lived in rural north Pembrokeshire with his two ailing parents died of scurvy, “an easily preventable disease”, an inquest heard on Thursday. Eight year old Dylan Mungo Seabridge was educated at home in Eglwyswrw by his IT teacher mother
FISHGUARD Library will close on Fridays from April 1 after the Town Council decided not to take over the running costs.The Finance Committee met on January 22 to discuss picking up the bill from Pembrokeshire County Council, which is recommending that
Hello! Hope you've all had a good week. It’s disappointing to be here once again on the back of a defeat but looking forward to the next challenge that lies ahead. We returned from Leicester last week disappointed as I explained but we knew we had
DRIVERS are being warned of difficult driving conditions in the Preselis area. Pembrokeshire County Council said that it has received reports that recent snow showers have caused some problems. Gritters have attended to the B4329 over the Preselis
THERE was an eleventh hour u-turn in today’s extraordinary meeting about secondary education as hundreds of protestors gathered outside County Hall. Members were due to vote on proposals to send the recommendation to discontinue Ysgol Dewi Sant
What an unholy alliance ! The Tories and Labour want to spend a mind-boggling £100 Billion on Trident, a Cold War era weapon of mass destruction. At the same time they have agreed a further £30 Billion pounds cuts from public expenditure, which
MARTYN Roberts (Letters, January 21) says “…Large wind turbines are not for the benefit of the community in which they are sited, but are used by individuals purely for profit. They do not benefit the locals….” Typically of wind energy opponents contacting
WELL done Withybush Hospital. Recently a friend of ours had a fall in Pembroke at approximately 1.30pm. She was taken to a nearby builders’ merchant to sit down and have a cup of tea. We were telephoned at 2pm to collect her and her car as she
THE provision of supply teachers in Wales has been to a great extent privatised, and many councils no longer provide supply teachers. Many private agencies recruit and assign supply teachers to schools in need. I found that eight authorities spent
RECENTLY we were in Pembrokeshire visiting family and friends and as usual we buy the local newspapers. In one there was a full page recruitment advertisement for carers to in a number of places around the county. What surprised us was that
TWO weeks ago the Western Telegraph newspaper and website had a story saying, “Reassuring Hospital signs cost the taxpayer £2,800”. Sue Lewis, county director and commissioner for the Health Board, said local charities had called for “something visual
THE Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) is investigating the thunderstorm which deposited huge hailstones, with attendant damaging winds, in the Haverfordwest area on the night of January 13. We will welcome any accounts of the hailstorm
A public meeting is being held this evening (Thursday) to discuss controversial plans to start charging people to park in Goodwick. The meeting has been called by Fishguard and Goodwick Town Council in response to Pembrokeshire County Council’s
Miss D L James Pembroke MISS Dorothy Lavinda James originally from Norgan’s Hill, Pembroke passed away at Bush House Care Home in Pembroke on December 26. She was 89. During her working life she worked at Croft House Childrens Home, Flax
The Pembrokeshire tourism and hospitality trade will be welcoming one of the UK’s most influential tourism experts at the annual Destination Pembrokeshire Conference, today (Thursday). Director of the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research at Cardiff
ACTOR Jerome Flynn was among the hundreds of concerned locals demonstrating outside County Hall in Haverfordwest this morning, ahead of an extraordinary meeting to discuss the future of secondary education in Pembrokeshire. Councillors are voting
Parents are gearing up to protest outside County Hall today (Thursday) in the wake of controversial proposals to reorganise secondary school education in Pembrokeshire. An extraordinary meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council is being held at 9am
