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Stories for 27 January 2005

Farming Comment

Farmers, stand united

Can co-operate but won't co-operate. Sounds like the mind-set of a stubborn child. But on the contrary, these are grown men and women I refer to, farmers to be precise.  more...

Farming Farming Features

Ear tag ID takes off

Automatic cow identification systems are proving their value on low-cost dairy farms as west Wales producers recognise their labour-saving benefits.  more...

Farming Yfc News

Elonwy is new YFC president

The newly-elected president of Carmarthenshire Federation of Young Farmers Clubs is Elonwy Phillips, of Brynsiriol, Heol y Gogledd, Whitland.  more...

County hosts `best-ever' Wales YFC eisteddfod

Within Wales there is an immensely strong tradition of literature, music, and song and this was fully displayed by young farmers from all areas as they competed at the movement's best-ever national bilingual eisteddfod hosted by Pembrokeshire Federation at a packed Ysgol Bro Gwaun, Fishguard.  more...

National honours

The year has begun in style for members of Pembrokeshire YFC, with news that the county has been awarded the reserve champion trophy for competitions at national level.  more...

News Tsunami

Grand sum for appeal

Pupils of Ysgol Dewi Sant in St Davids raised £1,000 at a recent fundraising day for the victims of the tsunami.  more...

Guiding light for tsunami victims

The county's Girl Guides responded swiftly when they heard that tents were needed by victims of the tsunami disaster.   more...

Pair's Sri Lanka mission

Hands-on help as well a money is being given to the tsunami victims by Pembrokeshire people.  more...

Brothers scale heights of fundraising

BUSINESSMAN brothers Simon and Oliver Booth have scaled the heights of fundraising. The duo's Christmas climb of Mount Kenya will raise money for local charities.  more...

Grand sum for appeal

Pupils of Ysgol Dewi Sant in St Davids raised £1,000 at a recent fundraising day for the victims of the tsunami.  more...

Tsunami agencies link up thanks to local company

An electronic conferencing system which will connect all aid agencies working in tsunami-hit areas has been launched in Cardigan.  more...

County diary of events

A DIARY of events being held to raise money for the tsunami appeal is being held by Jane Clark, town clerk of Haverfordwest Council.  more...

Cathedral charity concert

The birthplace of Wales' national saint is to host a special charity concert in aid of the tsunami appeal.  more...

Pembrokeshire Arts

The best of opera

Opera review: Viennese Strauss Gala Torch Theatre, Friday, January 21st  more...

Bums on seats for second production

Theatre preview: Lark Rise by the East End Flyover Company Torch Theatre, Milford Haven, February 4th and 5th  more...

Young bands give their all for disaster appeal

The artistically draped chilli lights were an indicator of how hot a night this was going to be.   more...

Bumper fortnight of film

The eleventh Mwldan Film Festival is under way - the first to be held in the newly completed Theatr Mwldan.   more...

Pembrokeshire Business

Health trust appoints new medical director

PEMBROKESHIRE and Derwen NHS Trust has appointed Dr Charles Merrill as medical director for acute and community services, following the retirement of Dr Peter Jackson.  more...

`Withybush will never be regional airport'

Withybush will never become a regional airport, members of the county economy committee were told by director of development, Roger Barrett-Evans, on Thursday.  more...

Pembrokeshire Farming

Courses designed to brush up farmers' computer skills

Farmers across Pembrokeshire are being urged to brush up their computer skills to rise to the new challenges presented by the Common Agricultural Policy reform.  more...

Steve pulls off prestigious win

The British Tractor Pullers Association held its agm in Kenilworth earlier this month to discuss the year's various events and to celebrate the achievements of the drivers and their tractors throughout the season.  more...

Milk price cuts u-turn

Milk producers supplying the Dansco cheese-making factory at Newcastle Emlyn have been told plans to cut their milk price have been abandoned.  more...

Pembrokeshire Gyda Llaw

Gyda Llaw

TRI chynnig i Gymro neu Gymraes yn ôl yr hen ddihareb. Dwi'n amhau chewch chi ddim cymaint o ryddid â hynny ym materion y galon - ond o leiaf os ydych chi wedi anghofio taw dydd Santes Dwynwen oedd hi ddoe, mae'na gyfle i chi faldodi'ch cariad eto ar Chwefror 14.  more...

Pembrokeshire Letters

Parks council has done nothing for Pembrokeshire people

Dear Editor, - How can a London-based charity have any idea about what is in the `public interests' of Pembrokeshire and its people?  more...

Principle at stake to Bluestone bid

Dear Editor, - There is a simple answer to Mr Doughty's letter, Stop Criticising And Get Behind Bluestone (January 12th .  more...

We back consultant

DEAR EDITOR, - We are disgusted that Dr Overton, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Withybush Hospital, has been suspended by Frank O'Sullivan, chief executive of the Pembrokeshire and Derwen National Health Trust for exercising his human rights and freedom of expression.  more...

Unfair treatment of Welsh regiments

Dear Editor, - As a Welshman and former serving soldier, I was dismayed to learn that in the Government's recent re-organisation of infantry regiments, Wales is being treated less equitably than Scotland.  more...

Doctor's rights have been denied

Dear Editor, - The scandalously disproportionate sentence of suspension of the consultant gynaecologist Chris Overton for having the temerity to make publicly known his disagreement with the controversial decision of the hospital trust to close several gynaecology beds has led me to reflect that if Dr Eirian Williams had not been so persistently and publicly outspoken in the 1960s about the then Regional Hospital Board's policy to downgrade services in Pembrokeshire then there might have been no hospital in Haverfordwest from which Mr Overton could have been suspended.  more...

Pembrokeshire News

Bluestone planning appeal court costs

Following last week's story in the Western Telegraph, Bluestone would like to clarify the following points - all Bluestone's legal costs will be met in full by Bluestone and Alfred McAlpine plc.   more...

Language row ends as Welsh speaker lands top job

A language row in Carmarthenshire has ended after a Welsh-speaker was named as the county's new £100,000-a-year education director.  more...

National Park hits at critics of its Bluestone defence

PEMBROKESHIRE National Park Committee chairman, Councillor Steve Watkins, has hit out at critics who have suggested that the authority has not defended the Bluestone judicial review process with sufficient vigour.  more...

Bid to turn Shire Hall into pub takes step forward

THE bid to turn Haverfordwest's historic Shire Hall into a pub has taken another step forward.  more...

Gas pipeline to run close to homes

THE first time many Pembrokeshire farmers knew a pipeline might be crossing their land was when surveyors and analysts turned up unannounced.  more...

Farmers demand gas pipe answers

The gas company Transco will face a barrage of questions next week about the impact of a giant pipeline to carry high pressure gas across the Pembrokeshire countryside.  more...

New fears about hospital cutbacks

A HAVERFORDWEST town councillor has voiced concern over rumours that long-term changes at Withybush Hospital might include a midwife-run maternity unit.  more...

Cedric the dragon fires up challenge for schools

FUNDRAISERS for one of Wales' leading children's charity, NCH Cymru, will be visiting scores of schools to raise money for vulnerable and excluded children and help pupils learn more about how social and community issues impact on their everyday lives.  more...

Union slams removal of emergency fire tender

LIVES may be put at risk when Pembrokeshire loses its emergency fire tender, according to the Fire Brigades Union.  more...

Tank firing slammed as `horrendous'

A RETIRED soldier living a mile from a military training range claims his human rights are being violated by the noise levels associated with tank firing.   more...

More stores to head for county

THE announcement that the giant food chain Asda is to take over the Co-op supermarket in Pembroke Dock, has fuelled speculation that other retail and business developments are in the pipeline for the town.  more...

Salesman drives over 400 miles to see a dentist

A SALESMAN has been forced to drive hundreds of miles for emergency dental treatment, because he failed to get an appointment in Pembrokeshire.  more...

Actor joins battle over pub closure

ACTOR Freddie Jones has joined the battle over the closure of Little Haven's Swan Inn.  more...

Stars make chatter matter

IF you could be any character from a nursery rhyme, which one would it be?  more...

CAB did not fund couple's claim

THE Citizens' Advice Bureau has asked us to point out that the point relating to costs in the report of Andrew and Sally McHardy's (Caldey Island) industrial tribunal ruling was misleading.   more...

Pembrokeshire Newyddion

Gyda Llaw

TRI chynnig i Gymro neu Gymraes yn ôl yr hen ddihareb. Dwi'n amhau chewch chi ddim cymaint o ryddid â hynny ym materion y galon - ond o leiaf os ydych chi wedi anghofio taw dydd Santes Dwynwen oedd hi ddoe, mae'na gyfle i chi faldodi'ch cariad eto ar Chwefror 14.  more...

Pembrokeshire Sport

This week's football stats

Here are this week's James Williams Pembrokeshire Senior Football League results, tables and fixtures:  more...

Bluebirds bow out with pride intact

Football: FAW Premier Cup, quarter final Haverfordwest County 1 Wrexham 2 A crowd of well over 2,000 crammed into the Bridge Meadow for the visit of Wrexham last week.  more...

Rain stops play

THE only first division soccer action in the Pembrokeshire League on Saturday was staged at mud strewn Camrose.  more...

Penalty try seals Quins' success

Rugby: County Division Three (west): Pembroke Dock Harlequins 7 Llandeilo 5   more...

Neyland survive Dock shock

Indoor Cricket League (Sponsored by Martin Davies Health Club): Neyland started their 2005 season with a bang as they beat both Narberth and Pembroke Dock in week two of matches at the Meads Sports Centre in Milford Haven.  more...

Seagulls slip up

Rugby - Division Four (West): Laugharne 27 Fishguard & Goodwick 7 Laugharne completed the double over Fishguard as they followed their earlier 22-14 success at The Moors with this comfortable win as they outscored the Seagulls by five tries to one.   more...

  
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