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CD review - Macy Gray - Experimental Sounds
The Id Epic Experimentation is, without a doubt, a good thing. Without it, bands whose sound was once new and refreshing would quickly fall into a rut; lazily churning out the same old stuff on album after album - much like the tragically stable Travis
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McDonalds moves in to build new restaurant
43BusinessMcDonald's CONSTRUCTION work will start next week on the new McDonalds restaurant at Pembroke Dock. Workmen will move onto the Morbaine site adjacent to the Tesco supermarket with a six-week completion deadline to meet. The company will begin
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In-form Jones boosts Otters
Builth Wells 16 Narberth 30 Narberth winger Andrew Jones maintained his good form in the Principality Cup as he followed up his try hat-trick in his previous match with another brace that set the Otters on the way to cup success against a Builth Wells
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Cinema review - Legally Blonde
Director: Robert Luketic Cert. 12; Dur. 97 mins Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Holland Taylor, Victor Garber, Jennifer Coolidge It wasnt Clueless that really started the trend of laughing at the ridiculously pampered
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Councillors frustrated at euro-cash hold-up
THE countys politicians are failing to do their job in securing European funding for improving Pembrokeshires road networks, a councillor has claimed. I see and hear other AMs getting their views out in the press, and on radio, and getting promises for
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Keys killed off by Whitland grit
Whitland 15 Cross Keys 11 Whitland showed real grit to claim their second successive win in Division One after eight consecutive defeats, following up their tremendous success against Pontypool with this equally important victory over a big and experienced
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Careers message served up with fun and fancy dress
THE MESSAGE that a career in the tourism, hospitality and leisure industry is challenging, rewarding, and - most of all - fun has just been served up loud and clear to junior and secondary school pupils throughout West Wales. Pembrokeshire was the venue
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Crossing the line of danger
After two weeks and 3,000 miles of empty highways in Montana and Wyoming, through to Tombstone, Arizona, this was our last day and we couldnt bear to leave. Before heading northwards alongside the Rio Grande to Albuquerque for our flight to New York what
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Artists to take on Turner in castle's TV challenge
THE landscape artist, J. M. W. Turner, though a Londoner born and bred, loved Wales and one of his well-known paintings is of Carew Castle. Turner, perhaps the most famous English Romantic landscape artist, became known as the painter of light. Carew
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Council sees red over Victorian Blue1
COLOUR POLICE have cracked down on one of Haverfordwests most prominent buildings. Pembrokeshire County Councils style officers saw red after estate agents, West Wales Properties, painted their Haverfordwest riverfront premises a bright Victorian Blue
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Hakin show their class but Johnston battle hard
Johnston 0 Hakin United 5 The scoreline suggests that Hakin completely dominated this game against the team form the Second Division, but Johnston deserve credit for making it hard for the undisputed kings of local soccer. From the outset they battled
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New group launches with a tasty pledge
FARMERS producing organic livestock in Pembrokeshire have pledged to introduce consumers to some of the best tasting meat in Britain. They are among 16 West Wales meat producers who are marketing their lamb and beef direct to the public under the Cambrian
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Six goal Sports stun St Ismaels
St Ishmaels 1 Saundersfoot Sports 6 Turning into St Ishmaels sports ground on Saturday, players and spectators would have been struck by a silver veneer that covered the pitch. Bizarrely, what looked like dew turned out to be a field full of cobwebs although
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Diver speaks of Kursk salvage
A Pembrokeshire diver who played a key role in salvaging the Russian nuclear submarine, Kursk, from the bottom of the Barents Sea has spoken of the emotional impact of the recovery operation. As a former submariner, Peter Davies was acutely aware of the
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New lifeboat station design meets with approval
Work could start on Tenbys new £3 million lifeboat station as early asOctober next year. National Park members and the RNLI have finally agreed on designs for the new station after several months of discussions. On Wednesday, development control officer
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Schools close a day early for Christmas
PEMBROKESHIRES schools will break up for Christmas this year one day earlier than previously announced. The last day of the autumn term will now be on Thursday, December 20th, and not Friday, December 21st. The change has been made to accommodate the
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Aerospace jobs axed
ANOTHER 50 employees of Pembroke Dock-based DPS Composites were made redundant last week. The latest job losses include head of aerospace, John White, and general manager, Peter Webster. Almost three weeks ago, DPS Composites laid off 20 workers because
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Historic pub relaunches
Fishguards famous Royal Oak pub is to be officially re-opened next week by a figure who made history there over 200 years ago during the Last Invasion of Britain. Yvonne Fox, who has portrayed local heroine Jemima Nicholas since the bicentenary celebrations
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Goodwick show their class
Tenby 0 Goodwick 3 Goodwick sent an ominius warning to any side that had written them off this campaign, with a thrilling 3-0 victory over an in-form Tenby side. The Seasiders had beaten the visitors in an earlier league encounter and the north Pembrokeshire
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Pets starved to death
A 19-year-old man from Milford Haven appeared before Haverfordwest magistrates on Monday after two budgies and two rabbits starved to death in his care. Nicholas Michael Ian King-Magee, of 12 Chestnut Way, admitted three charges of causing unnecessary
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New voice launched for county tourism
FOLLOWING the well-attended inaugural AGM at Queens Hall, Narberth, the newly elected board of directors for Pembrokeshire Tourism held its first meeting on Monday, October 8th. The directors have been elected from each aspect of the tourism trade in
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Farm incomes drop to less than £50 a week
NEW figures indicating farm incomes are now less than £50 a week graphically illustrate the industrys worse fears, the Farmers Union of Wales revealed. FUW president Bob Parry said he was distressed, but not surprised, that a survey just published by
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Dairy Crest factory closes
The closure of the Dairy Crest factory at Carmarthen on Friday marks a new phase in the development of its sister plant at Haverfordwest. The company has assured 100 staff at the Merlins Bridge factory that it is committed to this site and has no plans
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Pacy Perkins peps All-Blacks to big win
Neyland 38 Aberaeron 10 Two tries by pacy young winger Lee Perkins helped Neyland gain a deserved win against Aberaeron at the Athletic Ground, although the final margin didnt really show the effort put in by the Mid Wales side as the All Blacks somehow
