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Farming Comment

Government's promise is long overdue

The Government's promise to cut through the red tape strangling Pembrokeshire's rural businesses is long overdue.  more...

Farming Equestrian News

Be on the look-out for ragwort

April is nearly here, and the spring grass will soon be fattening up the county's ponies.   more...

Farming Farming Features

100% organic experience

A Pembrokeshire dairy farmer is proving that it is possible to produce milk organically without any conventional feed inputs.   more...

Pembrokeshire Arts

Full metal racket

Live review: Hi-On Maiden, The Imperial, Milford Haven, March 12th  more...

Praise the lord

Theatre review: Godspell, Steynton Hall, March 23rd-25th  more...

Just watch and go

Theatre preview: The Day of Reckoning, Torch Theatre, April 8th and 9th  more...

Daft Dave's daydream

Theatre Preview: Kissing Married Women, Torch Theatre, Milford Haven, March 31st  more...

Pembrokeshire Business

Dessie retires after nearly 50 years

DESSIE Johns, of Johnston, retired last week after 49 years in the same job, with the same company.  more...

Pembrokeshire Farming

Agricultural firm slapped with £100,000 tax bill

A West Wales-based agricultural supply co-operative has been landed with a £100,000 bill from the Inland Revenue because it had no accounting system in place to prove that staff paid for their own fuel for private use of company cars.  more...

Peter tastes success

Pembrokeshire's finest meat products scooped awards in the first leg of a national competition open to every independent butcher in Wales.  more...

Most of slaughtered herd were TB free

Just two of the 46 cows slaughtered last week following a bovine TB test at a Pembrokeshire farm had lesions.  more...

Pembrokeshire Letters

Archdruid stayed at great grandmother's home

DEAR EDITOR, - Regarding the report (Historic Village under the spotlight, March 9th).  more...

Another Grand Slam

DEAR EDITOR, - Congratulations to Wales on so convincingly winning the Grand Slam. There remains another match to win - to preserve Wales from desecration by the wind power speculators.  more...

Memories of London Pembrokeshire

DEAR EDITOR, - Does anyone remember the London Pembrokeshire Society in the 1950s when Mr Michael Harries, a chemist in the East End, was the jovial president and Miss L. M. Thomas was the diligent secretary?  more...

Seeking justice for pensioners

DEAR EDITOR - You published a table in your newspaper (March 16th) showing the council tax for 2005/6. Also, I have seen reports purporting to suggest a 5% council tax rise.  more...

Is it time to re-examine LNG issues?

DEAR EDITOR, - The innovative tidal project developed and tested in the Milford Haven Waterway has just lost its funding from the Welsh Assembly and is unable to develop off the St Davids coast to produce energy for the local area.  more...

Unique building should be preserved

DEAR EDITOR, - While I am grateful for the report in your March 16th edition of the presentation of a petition from the Civic Society to the County Council leader Councillor John Davies, on the proposed disposal of the Shire Hall, Haverfordwest, I must disclaim the remarks credited to me, but not their substance.  more...

Campaigners say `no' to identity cards

DEAR EDITOR, - As we approach the General Election, readers should be aware that the Government's plans for 'identity cards' and systematic tracking of everyone are still very much a threat.  more...

Pembrokeshire Obituaries

Obituaries published March 30th, 2005

Here are the obituaries published in the Western Telegraph on Wednesday, March 30th:  more...

Pembrokeshire Press Pack

Win a cracking day out at Oakwood

With Oakwood open this Easter, there are so many egg-citing things to get up to this holiday.  more...

Welcome new members!

A big Presspack welcome this week goes to:   more...

Toadally crazy giveaway!

Here is the song that is set to spawn a whole new genre of pop as the most famous frog since Kermit hops up to the mic.  more...

Happy birthday to you!

Birthday greetings for this week go to:   more...

Pembrokeshire Weddings

Latest notices:  more...

  
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