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  • Scheme will help energise economy

    THE new Technium is just what Pembrokeshire needs, according to Welsh MEP Eluned Morgan. The Euro MP visited the project in Pembroke Dock on Thursday, as part of a look at some of the most innovative projects to be funded by European money. The EU budget

  • Agency to pay up

    Farmers who were denied payment for casualty stock before the Over Thirty Month Scheme (OTMS) was scrapped will be paid after all. Pembrokeshire farmer and NFU vice-president, Meurig Raymond, says the Rural Payments Agency has backed down over the issue

  • Big Apples take credit

    Fly By Night's successful and sell-out Anti Valentine gig, three days after the event, was a platform for the launch of opening act The Big Apple Credits' new six track EP. Meeting their rising acclaim head on, with their body-pounding, attitude-laden

  • Religions' prayers not so different

    Dear Editor - I congratulate Pembroke Dock Town Council for not wishing to be unfair to Muslims. However, having abandoned the Lord's Prayer, might they perhaps consider substituting a Muslim prayer? Abu al Darda, a contemporary of Mohammed, records the

  • New station fuels choice

    Dear editor - It is welcoming to see another fuel outlet in Pembroke Dock. The monopoly one store had was bad news for motorists, ferry passengers and visitors to our county. Tim Mcmahon Royal Oak Cottage Military Road. Pennar

  • Heaters idea is disturbing

    dear editor - In conjunction with the news that Pembrokeshire was second only to Port Talbot for CO2 emissions, it was disturbing to hear that with the smoking ban being passed in Westminster, many establishments intend to invest in patio heaters outside

  • FSB sounds alarm over changes in law

    SMALL businesses are the ones which suffer when UK laws do not comply with EU regulations, says the Federation of Small Businesses. The European Court of Justice is currently considering whether two pieces of UK law meet EU regulations. The European Commission

  • No word on defence jobs

    Dear Editor - There's lately been a huge fuss about private profits already made and the government's further sell off of shares in the former UKAEA research arm. But there's hardly been a murmur about the Defence Ministry's pending disposal to Serco

  • World class

    Two truly world class performers come to Theatr Mwldan in early March, each bringing a wealth of influences from Spain and the Middle East. Israeli Yasmin Levy (pictured) recently appeared on Later With Jools Holland and has been nominated for the BBC

  • New role for Ken

    The new president of Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society, elected at last Wednesday's AGM, is Wolfscastle sheep farmer Ken Evans. Mr Evans and his wife Mattie, run the 300-acre Bryncleddau Farm where they concentrate on beef and sheep, having given up

  • Obituaries published on Wednesday 1st March 2006

    Here are the obituaries published in the Western Telegraph on Wednesday 1st March 2006 MR D. J. THOMAS LLANDISSILIO The death occurred on February 5th of David John Thomas, aged 84. John had lived a full life, born and brought up in Cwm Miles and Login

  • Trial will deliver a blow for the future

    Dear editor - regarding postmasters' fears for their customers and themselves in the article on the future of rural post offices, I would take issue with the statement in that article given by the spokesman for the Department for Works and Pensions (DWP

  • Amazed by food rules

    Dear Editor - On February 17th, l had a cup of coffee at the WRVS canteen in Withybush Hospital. I was amazed to see a cellophane wrapped Bakewell tart for sale with a sell-by date of March 17th. I remember the WRVS being forbidden from selling home-produced