News
Town Council requests sixth form consultation extension
ON the eve of the Extraordinary Council meeting to discuss sixth form provision in Pembrokeshire, Milford Haven Town Council has asked that the consultation period be extended.
Members of the Town Council’s Public works and Planning meeting feel that there hasn’t been sufficient time to discuss the matter.
The meeting took place at Milford Town Hall on Monday, April 13.
Cllr John Cole said this issue would affect the whole of Pembrokeshire.
The Mayor, Eric Harries said that the effect of the reorganisation varies from school to school and the interpretation was that it would have very little effect on Milford other than to bolster its numbers and questioned whether that was correct.
Cllr John Cole said: “This raises all sorts of issues. I have had a look at a document which is full of wonderful ideas but in my view they have forgotten some of the major issues about staffing, staffing contracts and salaries.
“If you downgrade a school, you downgrade finances and if you downgrade finances you downgrade what’s available to members of staff.
“This is such a complex issue and I would suggest that we invite the senior director of children and schools to meet with full council to give us her briefing and answer our questions.
“They’re talking about moving Sixth formers from Fishguard, St Davids and those from Tasker Millward and Sir Thomas Picton and creating a sixth form unit on the college campus. The college organisation is not part of Pembrokeshire County Council and they are under major financial pressures at this time.”
Mayor Eric Harries highlighted a consultation meeting in Milford Comprehensive School on April 22 concerning secondary education and that representatives from the School have been invited to a meeting of the council saying: “The school is most anxious to demonstrate and exercise that it is very much a part of the community and that it wants to play a full part in it.”
The Mayor later moved that the council ask for the date of completion of the consultation period to be put back as there has been ‘insufficient time to discuss the matter’.
Councillors did not want to set an end date but felt that the current deadline of May 5 should be extended until the end of May. That proposal was accepted by all councillors.
Crime
Court hears man exposed his flaccid manhood ‘by accident’
A 21-YEAR-OLD Pembrokeshire man has appeared before magistrates charged with intentionally exposing his genitals in a public place.
Thomas Jones is accused of carrying out the act at a property in New Moat, Clarbeston Road, on November 9, 2022.
“The defendant knocked on the door of a female and offered his gardening services,” Crown prosecutor Nia James told Haverfordwest magistrates this week.
“She accepted his offer and moved her car so that he could move his van, but when she turned around, she could see his flaccid penis was outside his trousers. When she pointed this out to him, he said he didn’t know that it was exposed.”
Jones denies the charge. He was released on unconditional bail to await his trial at Haverfordwest magistrates court on January 6.
Crime
Regular cocaine user from Milford Haven taken off the road
A MILFORD HAVEN resident who admits to being a regular cocaine user has lost his driving licence after being found behind the wheel when he was 15 times over the legal Benzoylecgonine limit.
Teifion Morse, 41, was stopped by officers just before midnight on May 1 following reports that he was driving his Vauxhall Insignia along the A477 at excessive speeds.
“The vehicle was travelling westwards towards Kilgetty, and Teifion Morse was the driver and the sole occupant, “ Crown Prosecutor Nia James told Haverfordwest magistrates this week.
A roadside drugs wipe proved positive while further blood tests carried out at the police custody suite showed that Morse had 800 mcg of benzoylecgonine in his system (the legal limit is 50), and 20 mcg of cocaine. The legal limit is 10.
Ms James said that when Morse was spoken to by officers, he told them that he knew the readings would be positive. “I’ve done stupid amounts today,” he said.
Morse, of Hawthorn Path, Milford Haven, pleaded guilty to two charges of drug driving. A probation report stated that since leaving the military five and a half years ago, Morse has suffered from mental health issues.
He’s been using cocaine as a coping mechanism,” said the probation officer. “He freely admits that he uses cocaine to help him cope, but it’s spiralled and is getting more and more out of control. He would like support to kick this habit.”
Morse chose to be legally unrepresented when he appeared before magistrates.
“It was my stupid fault and I’m trying to take the correct steps to get on the right path,” he said in mitigation.
Morse was sentenced to an 18-month community order during which he must carry out 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days and 150 hours of unpaid work. He was disqualified from driving for 15 months and must pay a £140 court surcharge and £85 costs.
News
Haverfordwest motorist ‘was well and truly over the limit’
A MOTORIST , described by the Crown Prosecution as being ‘well and truly over the limit’, has been banned from driving by Haverfordwest magistrates.
Police were called to the County Hall car park, Haverfordwest just before midnight on Hallowe’en following reports of the way in which an Alfa Romeo was being driven along Old Hakin Road.
When officers arrived, they discovered Ashley Horrocks, 32, behind the wheel.
“When officers spoke to him, he was displaying the demeanour of someone who was intoxicated,” said Crown Prosecutor Nia James.
A roadside breath test was positive and subsequent breath tests carried out at the police station showed that Horrocks had 78 mcg of alcohol in his system. The legal limit is 35.
“He was well and truly over the limit,” added Ms James.
Horrocks, of Rack Hill Terrace, Hawthorn Rise, Haverfordwest, pleaded guilty to the drink-drive charge. He was legally represented by Mr Michael Kelleher.
“It was an incredibly stupid decision on his part to drive, but he hasn’t drunk any alcohol since,” he said.
Horrocks was fined £250 and ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £100 surcharge. He was disqualified from driving for 20 months.
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robert hogggins
April 14, 2015 at 2:52 am
this is a time when pupils are making exam dicisions for their future and to be disrupted at this time could wreck their future
school enviroment is what they want when exams and familier teachers
around them who have supported them throuout
pembroke college funded from a vary different pot of money to that of the schooling funds and pembrokeshire college is under hardship as it is and how are all these pupils going to get to the college will the council pay for the transport
it will be parents paying but consider those on low incomes and benifts and single parents i dont think this has been fully revised who ever thaught of this should go back to school themselves