News

Four shouts in just 24 hours for Angle RNLI volunteers

Published

3 months ago

August 23, 2025

‘Exhausted’ crew said its been an extremely busy start to the Bank Holiday Weekend

AT 8.04pm last night, Friday the 22nd of August the crew were paged to assist the police with a despondent female in the Milford Beach area.

The lifeboat was soon on scene and conducting a search of the immediate area. With nothing found, the lifeboat extended their search whilst members of Dale Coastguard Rescue Team and police officers search the shoreline.

Around 40 minutes later the casualty was located safe and well inland. With no further assistance required the crew were stood down and the lifeboat was back alongside and readied for further service by 9.30pm.

This morning, at 11.51pm the crew the crew were tasked to assist a 32ft yacht with 2 persons onboard with a fouled propeller 1 mile west of Linney Head. The vessel was underway under engine power when they unknowingly motored over a section of fishing net.

The lifeboat was on scene 17 minutes after launching and after bringing the net onboard the yacht a tow was passed.

The crew set about towing the vessel to Milford Marina and just over an hour later both vessels arrived off the entrance to Milford Marina. The vessel was transferred into an alongside tow and the crew stood by awaiting the next lock into the marina.

Shortly after whilst waiting to lock in, the crew were retasked to assist a male with a deep leg laceration following being struck by his vessel’s propeller off Watwick Beach. With the lock still closed, the yacht was placed on a nearby mooring to allow the lifeboat to depart.

The vessel had made its way to the port authority jetty escorted by the Milford Haven Harbour Patrol. The lifeboat was soon alongside the jetty and three casualty care trained crew members boarded the vessel and began assisting members of Dale Coastguard Rescue Team and Milford Haven Port Authority staff with medical care. Soon after, an ambulance arrived on scene.

The crew assisted both the coastguard and paramedics in extracting the casualty from the vessel. With the casualty handed over to paramedics, the crew were stood down to return to their original tasking.

The lifeboat proceeded back to the yacht and once again rigged an alongside tow. The vessel was taken safely into the marina and placed on a pontoon. With no further assistance required the crew were stood down and the lifeboat was back alongside by 4pm.

This evening, at 7.19pm the crew were tasked to provide safety cover to persons attempting to salvage a 28ft vessel taking on water off Hobbs Point.

The lifeboat launched and was soon on scene, where after assessing the situation the salvage pump was passed to assist with the water ingress.Witt the vessel now pumped out, the casualty vessel was taken under tow by a local rib and beached on Front Street to prevent it sinking further.

With no further assistance required the crew were stood down and returned to station where the lifeboat was readied for further service by 9pm.

Cover image: Martin Cavaney/Herald

News

BBC apologises to Herald’s editor for inaccurate story

Published

52 minutes ago

December 4, 2025

Staff Writer

THE BBC has issued a formal apology and amended a six-year-old article written by BBC Wales Business Correspondent Huw Thomas after its Executive Complaints Unit ruled that the original headline and wording gave an “incorrect impression” that Herald editor Tom Sinclair was personally liable for tens of thousands of pounds in debt.

The 2019 report, originally headlined “Herald newspaper editor Tom Sinclair has £70,000 debts”, has now been changed.

The ECU found: “The wording of the article and its headline could have led readers to form the incorrect impression that the debt was Mr Sinclair’s personal responsibility… In that respect the article failed to meet the BBC’s standards of due accuracy.”

Mr Sinclair said: “I’m grateful to the ECU for the apology and for correcting the personal-liability impression that caused real harm for six years. However, the article still links the debts to ‘the group which publishes The Herald’ when in fact they related to printing companies that were dissolved two years before the Herald was founded in 2013. I have asked the BBC to add that final clarification so the record is completely accurate.”

A formal apology and correction of this kind from the BBC is extremely rare, especially for a story more than six years old.

Business

First wind turbine components arrive as LNG project moves ahead

Published

4 hours ago

December 4, 2025

Tom Sinclair

THE FIRST ship carrying major components for Dragon LNG’s new onshore wind turbines
docked at Pembroke Port yesterday afternoon last week, marking the start of physical
deliveries for the multi-million-pound renewable energy project.

The Maltese-registered general cargo vessel Peak Bergen berthed at Pembroke Dock on
shortly after 4pm on Wednesday 26th November, bringing tower sections and other heavy
components for the three Enercon turbines that will eventually stand on land adjacent to the
existing gas terminal at Waterston.

A second vessel, the Irish-flagged Wilson Flex IV, has arrived in Pembroke Port today is
due to arrive in the early hours of this morning (Thursday) carrying the giant rotor blades.
The deliveries follow a successful trial convoy on 25 November, when police-escorted low-
loader trailers carried dummy loads along the planned route from the port through
Pembroke, past Waterloo roundabout and up the A477 to the Dragon LNG site.

Dragon LNG’s Community and Social Performance Officer, Lynette Round, confirmed the
latest movements in emails to the Herald.

“The Peak Bergen arrived last week yesterday with the first components,” she said. “We are
expecting another delivery tomorrow (Thursday) onboard the Wilson Flex IV. This will be
blades and is currently showing an ETA of approximately 03:30.”

The £14.3 million project, approved by Welsh Ministers last year, will see three turbines with
a combined capacity of up to 13.5 MW erected on company-owned land next to the LNG
terminal. Once operational – expected in late 2026 – they will generate enough electricity to
power the entire site, significantly reducing its carbon footprint.

Port of Milford Haven shipping movements showed the Peak Bergen approaching the Haven
throughout Wednesday morning before finally tying up at the cargo berth in Pembroke Dock.

Cranes began unloading operations yesterday evening.

The Weather conditions are currently were favourable for this morning’s the arrival of
the Wilson Flex IV, which was tracking south of the Smalls at midnight.

The abnormal-load convoys carrying the components from the port to Waterston are
expected to begin early next year, subject to final police and highway approvals.

A community benefit fund linked to the project will provide training opportunities and energy-
bill support for residents in nearby Waterston, Llanstadwell and Neyland.
Further updates will be issued by Dragon LNG as the Port of Milford Haven as the delivery
programme continues.

Photo: Martin Cavaney

Crime

Banned for 40 months after driving with cocaine breakdown product in blood

Published

4 hours ago

December 4, 2025

Sarah-Jane Absalom

A MILFORD HAVEN woman has been handed a lengthy driving ban after admitting driving with a controlled drug in her system more than ten times over the legal limit.

SENTENCED AT HAVERFORDWEST

Sally Allen, 43, of Wentworth Close, Hubberston, appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (Dec 4) for sentencing, having pleaded guilty on November 25 to driving with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the prescribed limit.

The court heard that Allen was stopped on August 25 on the Old Hakin Road at Tiers Cross while driving an Audi A3. Blood analysis showed 509µg/l of Benzoylecgonine, a breakdown product of cocaine. The legal limit is 50µg/l.

COMMUNITY ORDER AND REHABILITATION

Magistrates imposed a 40-month driving ban, backdated to her interim disqualification which began on November 25.

Allen was also handed a 12-month community order, requiring her to complete 10 days of rehabilitation activities as directed by the Probation Service.

She was fined £120, ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and a £114 surcharge. Her financial penalties will be paid in £25 monthly instalments from January 1, 2026.

The bench—Mrs H Roberts, Mr M Shankland and Mrs J Morris—said her guilty plea had been taken into account when passing sentence.