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  • City honours returning troops

    Hundreds of people lined the streets of St Davids yesterday (Wednesday) to welcome soldiers from the 14 Signal Regiment home from Afghanistan. Led by a regimental band, the soldiers from 22 squadron paraded from The Grove to Cross Square. Welsh

  • Nine local teams progress into second round

    The good news is that nine Pembrokeshire teams progressed into the West Wales Intermediate Cup second round. The biggest shock was the fact that both high-flying Hakin United and Pennar Robins lost two-nil at Pontarddulais Town and Ragged School respectively

  • Smart hat-trick delights Herbie

    Herbie 5 Haverfordwest County 0. A hat-trick by young striker Josh Smart helped Herbie on their way to an impressive five-nil drubbing of the Bluebirds. In horrendously wet and windy conditions it was the visitors who dominated the first ten minutes

  • Robins are stunned by Swifts’ extra-time winner

    Milford United 1. Monkton Swifts 2. (After extra-time). Second division Milford United were only three minutes away from causing a major cup upset at Marble Hall against high-flying first division rivals Monkton Swifts. Central defender Ben Jones

  • Super substitute Joshua makes dream Victory Shield debut

    A gifted 15-year-old footballer with local connections came off the bench to make his dream debut for England under-16s in their impressive Victory Shield win over Northern Ireland. Joshua Rees, an outstanding central midfielder, has shone this season

  • Bluebirds corner

    Brazil is just nuts about Terry. With the suspension of Gareth Elliott, Derek Brazil gave the captain’s armband to Terry Evans on Saturday against Pontypridd Town. Recently, Derek spoke about Terry and was pretty forthright in his views. “Terry is at

  • Bluebirds ease into next round

    Pontypridd Town 1. Haverfordwest County 4. Only an outstanding goalkeeping display by Pontypridd custodian Paul Buttery prevented this game from being over at half time. Pontypridd were facing extinction at the start of the season, and their

  • Controversial waste plant voted through

    A controversial plan for a materials recovery facility in the open countryside in Glanrhyd has been voted through by Pembrokeshire County Council's planning committee, against the advice of the county council's planning officers. The authority's

  • Two car crash in Nun Street

    St Davids fire crews were called to a two vehicle crash in Nun Street, St Davids last night (Wednesday). Nobody was injured in the crash. Fire crews made the vehicles safe and cleared the roadway using absorbent granules and small gear.

  • Kitchen fire in Hakin

    Two Milford Haven fire crews were called to a kitchen fire at a property on John Lewis Street, Hakin, on Monday evening. Police also attended, but the fire, which had been confined to the kitchen area of the ground floor flat, had already been extinguished

  • Rain fails to spoil a Blues’ day

    Haverfordwest 25. Amman United 13. Haverfordwest secured a welcome home win as they defied the awful conditions to beat Amman United. A strong second half performance saw them battle back from a 5-6 interval deficit. They might even have celebrated

  • Rugby fixtures

    Saturday, October 11th Division 1 West Bonymaen v Corus Carmarthen Quins v Whitland Dunvant v Maesteg Felinfoel v Cwmllynfell Llangennech v Carmarthen Athletic Narberth v Tonmawr Division 2 West Ammanford v Cwmavon BP Llandarcy v Builth

  • Seagulls win dour derby

    Fishguard and Goodwick 6. St Davids 3. Fishguard and St Davids fought out a tough local derby that was uncompromising and typically tight, as neither side was able to break down the other’s defence and the Seagulls eventually won by two penalties

  • All Blacks boosted by skipper’s return

    Pontyates 5. Neyland 25. Skipper Mark Chamber-lain returned to action after injury and was able to lead Neyland to a good away win over a Pontyates. The home side found themselves 15 points adrift at half time and was unable to make any real impact

  • Wasps wilt in the wet

    Llangwm 12. Furnace 22. Llangwm suffered the disappointment of a home defeat as Furnace eased to victory. They led 15-0 at the interval and added the killer blow of a converted try straight after the interval as the Wasps sought to use the wind

  • Plain sailing in stormy weather

    Milford Haven 46. Swansea Uplands 0. The bad weather which howled its way up from the estuary certainly didn’t affect Milford Haven at the Observatory as the Mariners ran in no fewer than eight tries, whilst keeping a clean sheet themselves. Coach

  • Lewis leads sharp Seasiders

    Tenby 21. Bettws 3. Sixteen points from outside half Tom Lewis helped Tenby United gain a deserved win against Bettws at a rain-swept Heywood Lane. Lewis, back in his favourite No 10 shirt, also kicked well out of the hand to keep the Seasiders

  • Quins go down in tight tussle

    Pontarddulais 8. Pembroke Dock Harlequins 6. Pembroke Dock Harlequins came close to victory at Pontarddulais but failed to take half chances at key times and had to pay the inevitable price. The Quins are still suffering from losing a number of

  • Scarlet pack sets up success

    Pembroke 34. Bury Port 8. Pembroke’s powerful pack laid the foundations for success against Bury Port at Crickmarren, as they were strong in the scrums, superb in the difficult lineout conditions and eager to secure 50/50 ball around the field.

  • Cardis lose winning record

    Llanybydder 25. Cardigan 14. Cardigan’s excellent start to the new campaign was brought to an abrupt halt at Llanybydder as the Teifisiders were beaten by a determined Llanybydder outfit which adapted to the weather far better than Cardigan. Cardigan

  • Preseli pounce for vital victory

    Laugharne 5. Crymych 12. Crymych showed they can do well in this new section as they travelled to Laugharne and came away with a deserved win against one of the teams that are traditionally strongest at home. The platform for the Crymych success

  • Borderers unable to raise the tempo

    Whitland 3. Carmarthen Athletic 10. Whitland suffered the disappointment of defeat in their local derby against Carmarthen Athletic as they failed to take their first-half chances and were unable to raise the tempo to fight back after the interval