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Thanks petal: floral art event raises over £12,000
A grand total of £12,784, raised during the Picton Castle floral art festival was handed over to three delighted charities today (Thursday). A Floral Tale of Picton Castle ran for four days at the beginning of October. The biggest ever floral
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Yes to plastic bag price tag?
Should a levy of up to 20p be placed on every plastic shopping bag used in Wales? This week the Welsh Assembly announced it was looking at introducing a levy on plastic bags used at check-outs, with the money raised being used to fund environmental
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Refinery blaze tackled
A fire at the Murco Milford Haven refinery was tackled by the on-site emergency response team this morning (Thursday). The fire broke out at around 11.05am, a spokesman for the refinery told the Western Telegraph. The spokesman added
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Trainer’s delight at Chepstow win
Hills of Aran romped to victory at Chepstow recently, much to the delight of local racehorse trainer Keith Goldsworthy. Having reported Lucy Jones’ exciting win at Exeter, on Cresswell Ruby in last week’s edition, Telegraph Sport is delighted that Yerbeston
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Vehicle sought in burglary investigation
Fishguard police have put out an appeal following a series of burglaries in the Hermon area in the early hours of this morning (Thursday). A number of properties in the area were entered and various items stolen from them. Police are
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Pembrokeshire producers await taste of victory
A host of Pembrokeshire food producers will be waiting with bated breath tonight (Thursday), as they attend the annual True Taste Wales food and drink awards. Over 500 food and drink products and services are judged each year for the awards
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Busy bonfire night for fire crews
Pembrokeshire's fire crews had a busy Bonfire night, with several small fires throughout the county. At 9pm last night Fishguard's fire engine attended a gorse fire at New Hill Goodwick. The Fishguard crew climbed a steep bank and used
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Air ambulance tasked to St Davids collision
Fire crews from St Davids and Haverfordwest are currently at the scene of a two vehicle crash on the A487 Fishguard to St Davids road. The initial call of a crash between a car and a van came in at 9.43 this morning (Thursday). The car driver was
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Women in Withybush after Freystrop crash
Two women were taken to Withybush Hospital following a two vehicle crash on the Pembroke Road, near Freystrop golf club yesterday afternoon (Wednesday). The red jeep and black car came into collision at around 4.20pm on the road between Haverfordwest
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A three day celebration of the blues
Tenby Blues Festival, now in its third successful year, keeps on getting better and better, with demand for tickets higher than ever for the celebration of the blues from Friday, November 14th to Sunday the 16th. Not surprising really, when
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Goat club meetings underway
Winter meetings of the South West Wales Goat Club are now in progress. The November meeting will take place at Bloomfield Centre, Narberth on Saturday at 2pm with a talk on felt making. Refreshments available, £1 members, non-members £2 at the door.
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Sweet victory for Tom
Pembroke Dock Harlequins 13. Tenby United 16. Tom Lewis grabbed a late interception try which he converted to earn Tenby victory over his former team-mates. The former Quins outside half went through the card, scoring all of Seasiders’ points.
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Scarlets stutter at Maes y Felin
Betws 17. Pembroke 12. Pembroke went down to defeat at Betws’s Maes y Felin ground despite matching the home side in territory and effort – lacking in finishing power as too many important passes went to ground at key times. The Pembroke management
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League leaders sting Wasps by 59 points
Cefneithin 62. Llangwm 3. Llangwm found it hard going at Cefneithin as the league leaders scored 31 points in each half and restricted the Wasps to a solitary first half penalty from prop Richard Scriven. Ian Griffiths’ Llangwm team played well
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Seagulls swoop for welcome win
Swansea Uplands 0. Fishguard and Goodwick 22. Fishguard and Goodwick maintained their recent momentum with a cracking away win at Swansea Uplands, which brought high praise from veteran centre Huw Evans, who capped a good performance with a solo try
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Red-carded pair take the shine off All Blacks’ victory
Neyland 19. St Davids 10. Neyland gained their expected local-derby victory over St Davids at the Athletic Ground. However, it was not achieved without cost because the team lost scrum half Steve Hamer in the second half, when he was shown the
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Super Cardis run in 12 tries
Tumble 0. Cardigan 76. Cardigan produced one of their best all-round performances for some time as they played some sparkling attacking rugby at Tumble and ran in 12 tries whilst keeping a clean sheet in defence. One could say that Tumble have
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Huw puts the boot in
Crymych 25. Haverfordwest 23. A last-gasp penalty kicked by home scrum-half Huw Rees not only proved to be the final touch of an absorbing local derby clash between Crymych and Haverfordwest but gave the Preseli Men a narrow victory by a two-point
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Otters made to sweat for victory at Llangennech
Llangennech 31. Narberth 38. Narberth scored 27 unanswered points in a clinical first period, but almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory as they allowed Llangennech to claw their way back into contention, before the Otters held out for a
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Borderers leave it late
Bonymaen 10. Whitland 18. A late penalty and drop goal by Emyr Williams helped Whitland to a solid, if unspectacular, win over an inexperienced Bonymaen side which played far better than their lowly league position would suggest. The Borderers
