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Promising year for Pembrokeshire's tourism businesses

PEMBROKESHIRE Tourism has received a great set of results from this year’s end of season survey.Each year the county’s leading trade association supporting the local tourism businesses circulates a questionnaire to its members, in order to

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Roads hit by winds and flooding

A NUMBER of roads remain closed or blocked after severe flooding in the region. As of 5.15pm the A4066 was closed due to flooding, the A477 Cleddau Bridge closed due to high winds, and Rickeston Hill blocked due to flooding. Other roads to

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Bicentenary gets off to a flying start

AFTER many months of planning and anticipation, Pembroke Dock's bicentenary celebrations got underway on New Year's Day.Festivities to mark the town’s 200th birthday started with a brunch at Pater Hall, Dimond Street, cooked by Pembroke

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800 year-old rare Pembrokeshire tree felled by storm

A RARE 800-year-old Cedar of Lebanon tree fell at Bangeston Hall during the bad weather. The tree came down in two sections, with one part falling into neighbouring Bangeston Garden Centre, damaging a car and a van. The cedar, which was under a preservation

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Pembroke octogenarian given star treatment

A PEMBROKE octogenarian was recognised for his contribution to the community last month (December).Army veteran and great grandfather Dennis Thirkill was greeted by friends and family at South Pembrokeshire Golf Club, Pembroke Dock, for a surprise This

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Obituaries for January 1 2014

Mr A F O’Neil Kilgetty MR Anthony Francis O’Neil affectionately as ‘Tony’ of Ash Park Kilgetty passed away at Withybush Hospital on December 3 at the age of 85. Originally from Dublin he lived in Birmingham before moving to Pembrokeshire

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'Wysiwyg'

RICHARD Shepherd (Letters, Dec 16) surely cannot think that, in future, UK nuclear power will only be subsidised via guaranteed electricity prices (“strike prices”) for new power stations like Hinkley C. British taxpayers already massively subsidise

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Be not afraid

IN response to Derek Vaughan MEP’s letter on December 12, I am stunned at the laziness of his argument, peddling the same scaremongering tripe we have been hearing since we were conned into joining the EU 40 years ago. Mr Vaughan, as an MEP, should

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Great skates

I VISIT Haverfordwest from time to time and have watched the development of the skatepark with great interest. I drove past the park, just after its opening, and was overwhelmed at the sight of the completed facility, not a concrete eyesore but

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Bombshell

NOON on Monday, January 6 is the consultation deadline for people to submit their views on Pembrokeshire County Council’s proposal to merge Hakin Community School with Hubberston Voluntary Controlled School. The council’s intention is to provide

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Language a barrier?

IF traditional language is such a barrier to modern people attending church and deters them from coming, how is it that the seasonal services of nine lessons and carols, employing as they do the language of the Authorised Version of the Bible and much-loved

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Chance to stand up and have a say

LET’S hope enough concerned people gather outside Withybush Hospital on Saturday January 4 to show the local Health Board and Health Ministers in Cardiff and London that Pembrokeshire is willing to fight any “downgrade” of their General Hospital to

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Headline

Bill Carne meets up with one of the speed merchants of the Pembrokeshire Sporting scene in Karting champion Jason Cole . . .Jason Cole can rightly consider himself one of the speed merchants of Pembrokeshire Sport because the 27 year old driver from Lamphey

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Updates from a dramatic day as flooding hits Pembrokeshire

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Storm damage

St David's Lifeboat station was damaged this morning during the storms. Based on information supplied by .