Sport
Welsh football to honour the 1914 Christmas Truce
WELSH football teams, fans and schools are being asked to remember the First World War during ‘Football Remembers Week’ and to help create a unique photographic record of football a century on from the Christmas Truce. The Football Association of Wales (FAW) is joining with British Council Wales to help players and fans commemorate what took place on Christmas Day 1914 in Flanders, Belgium, when soldiers from both sides of the conflict laid down their arms to celebrate Christmas – with some even coming together to play games of football.
The FAW’s campaign will be led by the Corbett Sports Welsh Premier League sides and the invitation to participate will also be extended to all of the association’s affiliated leagues. During Football Remembers week, December 6 -14 , players are asked to pose together in a group photograph as a mark of respect to those that played in the 1914 Christmas Truce match. Teams can then post their photographs on social media using the hashtag #FootballRemembers and the pictures will be automatically uploaded to a dedicated website via social media.
Director of British Council Wales, Jenny Scott, said: “Photos from any football match of any size can be uploaded, from school to Sunday league fixtures, five-a-side matches to kickabouts in the back garden. The website will act as a moment of record of football in 2014, a century on from the First World War, and will be preserved for future generations.
We hope to see many photographs from Wales uploaded on the site as commemoration of World War 1. The Christmas Truce is a poignant story that reminds us of the power of sport to cross boundaries and to make international friendships.” Gwyn Derfel, Corbett Sports WPL Secretary, said: “On November 17 the Wales international squad visited Artillery Wood Cemetery in the village of Boezinge near Ypres to pay their respects.
1307 soldiers are buried there, many of them are Welshmen. “The FAW is pleased to participate in the Football Remembers project and it is believed that a number of Welshmen were involved in the historic football match. “Local reports in Ypres suggest that the 1914 Christmas truce was started by a Welshman; William ‘Blackwood’ Jones who held up a copy of the local Pontypool newspaper as a white flag to start it all and that a Welsh regiment played in the match.”
Sport
Harrison Allen: Lawrenny go through to quarter finals

LAWRENNY booked their place in the quarter finals of the Harrison Allen Bowl on Wednesday night (May 25) as they beat Burton by nine wickets.
Lawrenny won the toss and elected to field and they were able to bowl Burton out for just 93.
Burton lost James Davies early on as he was caught by Tom Cole off the bowling of Jamie Lewis.
Ryan Morton also claimed two wickets as Burton slipped to 58-3.
That brought Luke Hayman into the middle with brother Toby and the pair took the score to 67-3 after 13 overs.
Toby reached a score of 37 before heading back to the pavilion while Luke added 12.
Steve Lewis was in fine form for Lawrenny as he took five wickets to finish with 5-13 while Ryan Morton finished with 2-26.
There were also wickets from Jamie Lewis (1-14) and Finley Lewis (1-7).
In reply, Steve Lewis scored 23 before he was sent back. Harry Thomas finished unbeaten on 23 while Troy Purslowe was not out on 45.
It sets up a quarter final against the winners of the game between Hundleton and Cresselly.
Sport
Llangwm edge past Tish to book Harrison Allen quarter final spot

LLANGWM secured their place in the quarter finals of the Harrison Allen Bowl on Wednesday night (May 25) as they beat St Ishmaels by 4 runs.
Tish won the toss and chose to field and they restricted Llangwm to 146-9 in their 22 overs.
Noah Davies and Joe Kiff made a good start for the hosts as they shared 67 runs for the first wicket.
Kiff was the first man to go as he was caught by Ieuan Hawkins off the bowling of Brennan Devonald on a score of 27 that had included two fours and two sixes.
Soon after, Davies, who had hit one of each boundary in his score of 27, was also following Kiff back to the pavilion after being bowled by Jonathan Pawlett.
Pawlett also claimed the wicket of Will Beresford before Steven Mills departed on a score of 16 (1 four, 1 six) when he was caught and bowled by Devonald.
That left Llangwm on 107-4 but scores of 15 from Matthew Kiff and 16 not out from David Lewis saw them to their total.
For Tish, Pawlett finished with excellent figures of 4-41 while Devonald finished with 3-25.
Peter Bradshaw hit two early fours in his score of 12 but he was run out.
Karl Rhead and Andrew Palmer shared 42 runs for the second wicket as Palmer made his way to a score of 35.
Rhead was bowled by Steven Mills who then did the same to Brennan Devonald moments later.
Palmer had reached 42 with five fours and a six but when he was brilliantly caught by Luke Brock off the bowling of Mills, Tish had slipped to 77-4.
Phil Cockburn and Jonathan Pawlett then shared 23 runs for the fifth wicket as they looked to keep Tish in the game.
Pawlett hit a six but was then caught by Oliver Davies to give Mills his fourth wicket and figures of 4-28.
Cockburn and Andew Pawlett then shared 37 runs for the sixth wicket as they took the tie down to the final over of the game.
They scored 17 runs off the 20th over and 18 runs off the 21st over meaning they would need 11 off the final over to win it.
Cockburn took a run off the first to bring Pawlett on strike. After missing the third ball he went for a run that wasn’t there and keeper Beresford ran out Cockburn.
He had hit two fours and three sixes in his score of 39 from 30 balls.
Andrew Pawlett and Andrew Williams could only take five runs from the next five balls but it wasn’t enough for victory.
Pawlett finished unbeaten on a score of 20 from 11 balls with one four and two sixes.
Education
Crymych Panthers hold Boccia competition

CRYMYCH Panthers Boccia Club recently held their first in-house Boccia competition, with eight members competing in two categories: BC1&2 (participants with a physical impairment) and BC8 (participants with an intellectual impairment).
Games were played in a round robin style competition. The final of the BC1&2 between Racheal Bailey and James Pugh was a very close game with James winning by 3 points to 1. The BC 8 final was between Yvonne Berry and Dewi Evans. Dewi won by 10 points to nil, back on form as a former Welsh international Special Olympic team member.
The competition was sponsored by Andrew Scott Davies of Pembroke who took part in the 2021 CARTEN 100 bike to assist the club.

-
News2 days ago
C17-Globemaster aircraft spotted flying low over Pembrokeshire
-
News6 days ago
Two arrests in Haverfordwest after reports of man in possession of a knife
-
Business5 days ago
Fantastic conversion of old double decker as hop-on-hop-off bus for Tenby
-
News3 hours ago
Monkton: One person flown to Cardiff following incident
-
Community6 days ago
Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre celebrates the building of the iconic Star Wars starship
-
News3 days ago
Local councillor quits following Banksy allegations
-
News2 days ago
Pembroke Dock: Knife-point ATM robber Kieran Brumby jailed for five years
-
Community3 days ago
Historic church set to close after more than 1400 years