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  • Cricket season begins

    PEMBROKESHIRE league cricket season got under way on Monday, and here is the results and best performances from the top two divisions. Division One Lawrenny 106 all out (Andrew Cole 26 Adrian Griffiths 4-19 Nick Dyer 4-30) lost to Haverfordwest 110

  • Blues crush Town to lift West Wales Senior Cup

    HAVERFORDWEST COUNTY 3 CARMARTHEN TOWN 1 A BRACE of beautifully-struck goals early in the second half by Chris O'Sullivan was enough to take this game well out of Carmarthen's reach and secure the West Wales Senior Cup. Throughout the first half, the

  • All set for British series at Red Roses

    THE South Wales autograss league hosts the first round of the 2006 British Autograss Series at its Castle Lloyd Circuit between Red Roses and Pendine this weekend (May 6th and 7th), writes Norman Mason. In the recently held national qualifier held

  • Brilliant Borderers slam Llan

    Whitland 49 Llangennech 6 Whitland produced one of their best performances of the season to beat Llangennech, opening up a deserved 17-6 interval lead and calling the shots afterwards to add another 32 points without reply. Llangennech fly half Mark

  • Bowen breaks Cardi hearts

    Cardigan 7 Pembroke 10 Scott Bowen was the hero of the hour for Pembroke Youth as his last-gasp penalty from a difficult angle earned the young Scarlets the silverware at the expense of a Cardigan side which had led for much of the match but couldn't

  • Cherry on the cake for church

    CHERRY trees were among three varieties planted in a north Pembrokeshire churchyard by volunteers recently to create a feeling of seclusion. The normally sleepy churchyard of Llanhywel was a hive of activity when the small group of volunteers assembled

  • King steams into town

    The day after the Queen's 80th birthday, a King only four years younger was given a Royal welcome by hundreds of spectators at Fishguard Harbour on Saturday. King Edward I, a 76-year-old former GWR steam locomotive hauling an 11-carriage train, struck

  • Century-old secrets revealed

    A time capsule with documents going back 100 years was unearthed when a large safe, which has remained locked in Fishguard Town Hall, was finally opened on Thursday. The safe has been locked, with the keys long lost, in the first floor former clerk's

  • LNG Cash for projects

    Two community facilities in Milford Haven - the Pill Social Centre and Herbrandston Church Hall and community centre - have each benefited from £5,000 funding presented by South Hook LNG. The presentations were made by South Hook project manager, Jorge

  • Town honours for two groups

    Two organisations - the Friends of the Community of Haverfordwest and the Pembrokeshire Bike Riders - are set to receive Haverfordwest Town Council's Award of Merit. The award is the highest honour which can be bestowed by the council and recognises

  • Residents see red in row over a `green'

    Spurred on by proposals to build houses on part of what they regard as their 'village green', residents of Fleming Crescent, Haverfordwest, have made an official bid to have the land officially registered as a public amenity. The county council had

  • Sylvia loses battle for life

    Sylvia Davies, whose insurance company refused to pay medical bills after she suffered a brain tumour while on a holiday in Canada, has died. And this week her family, which still faces a £120,000 medical bill, paid tribute to Sylvia's courage and

  • Tall ship docks for festival

    The replica of a 19th century famine ship will set sail on her maiden international voyage next month when she crosses the Irish Sea bound for Pembrokeshire. The Dunbrody, a replica of the original three-masted barque which carried Irish emigrants

  • MS man in bid for stem cell trial

    A multiple sclerosis sufferer whose illness has left him unable to move or talk is hoping to be part of a ground-breaking stem cell research trial. Jason Powell, who was diagnosed with MS 21 years ago, has volunteered to be a 'guinea pig' for medical

  • We're Alive And Well, Say Shalom

    Shalom House trustees have quashed rumours that they haven't got planning permission for the respite care home under completion in St Davids. Chairman and trustee Arwel Davies insists that the main cause for recent misunderstandings is the use of the

  • Meeting sees 100 reject proposal for health service cuts

    A 100-strong audience unanimously rejected cutting services at Withybush Hospital, at the second Designed to Deliver consultation meeting, held in Crymych. All those present called for the retention and development of services at Withybush, echoing

  • Wait begins for a traffic ban decision

    Without a permanent order banning traffic within Tenby's town walls during peak times throughout July and August, the resort risks becoming a 'no-go area' for tourists. This was Pembrokeshire County Council's submission to the four day inquiry into

  • Real Nappy Know-How

    Pembrokeshire Real Nappy Network (PRRN) held an information and advice stall at Haverfordwest's Farmers' Market on Friday as part of Real Nappy Week 2006. Parents were able to view samples of a variety of modern washable nappies, ranging from a red

  • Last waltz for May Fair on town green

    When Haverfordwest's traditional May Fair moves onto St Thomas's Green for the 168th time this week it may well be the last to be held there. Pembrokeshire County Council has served notice on the town's two annual fairs - the other is Portfield Fair

  • Harpist pulls strings for music contest

    Welsh harpist Catrin Finch is hoping to hit the right notes and encourage talented youngsters to enter the Texaco Young Musician of Wales 2007 competition launched last week. The tenth biennial competition, sponsored by Texaco and organised in partnership

  • Tributes paid to ex-solicitor

    Tributes have been paid to a retired Pembrokeshire solicitor who died after collapsing while on duty at a National Trust car park. Peter Williams, who was 62 and had worked for the Trust for three years after taking early retirement from Pembrokeshire

  • Newgale £2 parking plan creates waves

    TOURISTS and residents across Pembrokeshire have signed a petition against a proposed rise in parking charges at Newgale. Until five weeks ago, the three car parks at Newgale beach were free. However, Pembroke-shire County Council initially introduced

  • Soldiers are in the pink

    The skies over Haverfordwest were filled with pink balloons on Sunday afternoon. Soldiers from the 14th Signal Regiment released about 2,000 balloons from Tesco car park for Cancer Research. Members of the public bought the balloons, donated by

  • Island bid left stranded

    Tenby's £20million lottery bid, which would have paid for the transformation of St Catherine's Island and part of the harbour, has been unsuccessful. Pembrokeshire County Council has been told by the Big Lottery Fund that the ambitious bid - which

  • Bowen breaks Cardi hearts

    Cardigan 7 Pembroke 10 Scott Bowen was the hero of the hour for Pembroke Youth as his last-gasp penalty from a difficult angle earned the young Scarlets the silverware at the expense of a Cardigan side which had led for much of the match but couldn't

  • Brilliant Borderers slam Llan

    Whitland 49 Llangennech 6 Whitland produced one of their best performances of the season to beat Llangennech, opening up a deserved 17-6 interval lead and calling the shots afterwards to add another 32 points without reply. Llangennech fly half Mark Jones

  • Salary hike row goes on

    Dear editor - The critical remarks of our AMs about the pay hike for Pembrokeshire County Council's chief executive may or may not be justified, but it depends on what local government minister Sue Essex means by a strong performance during the past year

  • Punk and funk fury

    In the arsenal of effects units available on a sound desk, I wonder if there is a preset marked municipal hall/swimming pool? Because if there is, Nikolai and The Physicists were, for some reason, awarded this effect in stereo. In spite of the setback

  • Cricket season begins

    PEMBROKESHIRE league cricket season got under way on Monday, and here is the results and best performances from the top two divisions. Division One Lawrenny 106 all out (Andrew Cole 26 Adrian Griffiths 4-19 Nick Dyer 4-30) lost to Haverfordwest 110 for

  • TB aid on the way?

    Pembrokeshire's livestock producers are waiting to hear if they will have parity with farmers in England when it comes to paying for bovine TB pre-movement testing. Defra has announced a package of financial support for English farmers to help them deal

  • Will wave power plan work on county coast?

    Dear editor - I have read several items concerning the deployment of a wave 'power station' off the coast of Pembrokeshire and understand that it was recently awarded £5million of Objective One aid. While I am very supportive of renewable technologies

  • Obituaries published on Wednesday 3rd May 2006

    Here are the obituaries published in the Western Telegraph on Wednesday 3rd May 2006 MR E. J. EVANS PEMBROKE The death occurred on Wednesday, April 5th, at ward 10, Withybush Hospital, of Emrys John Evans, of Pembroke. Emrys was from Abertillery but since

  • All set for British series at Red Roses

    THE South Wales autograss league hosts the first round of the 2006 British Autograss Series at its Castle Lloyd Circuit between Red Roses and Pendine this weekend (May 6th and 7th), writes Norman Mason. In the recently held national qualifier held by

  • Residents fighting for green space

    Dear editor - Having read the article on April 19th, 'Legal challenge could delay plan', we would like to point out that our objections to the modified Joint Unitary Development Plan (JUDP), on behalf of the residents of Fleming Crescent, were not correctly

  • County was not prepared

    dear editor - West Wales' AM Nick Bourne was quoted in the Western Telegraph on April 26th as saying that dualling the A40 "will have an important and beneficial effect on tourism." During the week starting April 3rd, the English schools' Easter holidays

  • 'I am obsessed with colour'

    A TALENTED Burton artist is currently exhibiting an impressive selection of her work at the Joanna Field Gallery at The Torch Theatre. Trisha Jones, of Greenwater, Burton Ferry, is showing 12 of her pieces throughout May. The mother-of-two modestly explains