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Pembrokeshire: Latest weather situation report

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HOW Imogen has disrupted Pembrokeshire

Fallen trees, traffic accidents, bridge closure, ferries cancelled and more as storm rips through county.

With residents from across the county being kept awake by the thunder, lightning and heavy rainfall, the torment had not stopped by day break.

Across Pembrokeshire trees have been reported to have fallen in these areas:

  • Tree down onto a vehicle on the A477 between Sageston and Milton.
  • Tree down blocking road on B4329 between Eglwyswrw and Crosswell.
  • Tree blocking road between Pentlepoir and Saundersfoot (Now Cleared)
  • Small tree down near Nolton Cross between Broad Haven and Simpson Cross.
  • Tree down on road to The Rhos from bottom of Arnolds Hill outside Haverfordwest.
  • Tree down on the Haverfordwest to Burton road between Troopers Inn and Freystrop.
  • Tree down at Upper Lamphey Road, Pembroke; on the Penally to Pembroke Road near Hodgeston.
  • Fallen tree at Broad Lane, Lawrenny.

Traffic is being diverted due to 95mph winds on the Cleddau Bridge and flooding in many coastal areas which has seen massively increased traffic flow through rarely used routes, causing many accidents.

Roofing has been heavily damaged and town streets and areas have been closed off sue to harsh winds:

  • Tesco, Pembroke Dock was closed while fire crews fought to keep roofing sheets from causing an accident. (Now reopened, threat still present but reduced)
  • Outhouse roof dislodged at Bryn –y-Derwyd, Trefin
  • Roof tiles loose at Ysgol y Frenni, Crymych
  • Chimney cowling dislodged at Coastlands School, St Ishmaels
  • Tiles dislodged from roofs at Strongbow Walk, Pembroke Dock
  • Facia boards dislodged at Tenby Learning Centre.
  • Tiles off roofs at Croft Avenue, Hakin, at College Park and Gothic Road in Neyland

Ysgol Bro Dewi has been closed for the whole of Monday with Nun Street, St Davids being closed all day until the wind subsides.

The A487 at Newgale towards Nolton Haven has now opened after heavy flooding on the coastal road, with crews working to clear the road of heavy pebble deposits and debris at Nolton Haven, where the road is being blocked.

Following this crews will relocate to Broad Haven and onto Little haven to being removing pebbles covering the road surfaces.

Other flooding has also taken place across the county which is expected to get worse as the day goes on:

  • Lower Town, Fishguard: has also seen flooding while conditions have eased, the combination of ground conditions, existing river levels and forecast rainfall quantities gives a high risk of flooding of low-lying land during the next 24 hours.
  • Ritec, Tenby: The combination of ground conditions, existing river levels on the river Ritec and forecast rainfall quantities gives a high risk of flooding of low-lying land. Due to restrictions at the tidal outfall, river level on the river Ritec in Tenby will raise and fall with the high and low tides respectively, levels will remain above the flood alert for the next few days.
  • Newgale – Kidwell risk: Spring tides are adding to the risk of flooding around the coast while high winds persist. Newgale is being monitored due to the high tide scheduled for 18:17 this evening, while low lying tidal areas stretching from Dale round to Kidwelly remain at risk from large waves and over-topping.

While the harsh weather continues the Fishguard to Ireland ferries are still on hold, whether they will be running as suggested tonight is yet to be confirmed.

The Ferry from Pembroke Dock to Ireland has been cancelled all day with the return trip being cancelled this morning but being planned to go ahead this afternoon.

Also reported across the county:

  • Temporary traffic lights blown over on B4327 Haverfordwest to Dale road at Dreenhill
  • Cable down on B4327 Haverfordwest to Dale road near Hasguard Cross
  • Trains delayed.

With weather set to get worse by 3pm today, Pembrokeshire could be in store for more devastation.

Keep an eye on The Pembrokeshire Herald Facebook page for the latest details.

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  1. ian campbell

    February 8, 2016 at 11:01 am

    somebody voted for them,we must face the ending of the carbon economy no more growth at any cost we must learn to live within our means and end the culture of the obscenely rich ruling all our lives.
    pembrokeshire shows the results of crony ca pitalism they experiment on the peasants who accept less and less while the few get richer.
    this weather shows why we need a change

  2. Tomos

    February 8, 2016 at 4:54 pm

    @ ian campbell:
    @ ian campbell:

    You’re having a larf aren’t you?

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Pembrokeshire town set to be rejuvenated as £12m investment approved

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SENIOR Pembrokeshire councillors have backed a near-£12m ‘levelling up’ project to rejuvenate parts of Pembroke, with £1.2m of council funds.

At the January 13 meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council’s Cabinet members backed the signing of a memorandum of understanding for a UK Government Levelling Up Fund 3 award for the £11,715,141 Pembroke town Westgate to Eastgate project.

The project attracted a grant award of £10,543,627, with a commitment of £1,171,514 match-funding from the council to comply with the grant offer requirements, some 10 per cent.

Applications for ‘levelling-up’ funding for this part of Pembroke have a history going back several years, with a June 2022 bid for the second round of levelling up funding unsuccessful; a third-round bid based on an amended version of that scheme getting the thumbs-up last year.

The project delivery period is planned to run from April 2025 until March 2028, consisting of three works packages, Cabinet members heard in a presentation by Deputy Leader Cllr Paul Miller.

The three planned works packages consist of, firstly, connecting The Commons to Westgate and Main Street, including an improved pedestrian connection into the town centre running from Common Road, via the Parade to Long Entry and exiting onto Westgate Hill and public realm improvements, improved lighting and public art.

The second package, Eastgate, is described as “both the principal investment and the critical path to the overall programme,” with the works seeing “selective demolition and making good to the elements of the school building, which encroach, onto [a] projected highway corridor, and for construction new retaining walls as necessary,” along with “An enabling contract to ready East End School for development to shell and core, readied for development for currently undetermined use”.

The third work  package, ‘Connecting Townscape, Landscape and Soundscape’ includes: “Pembroke’s network of public realm and green infrastructure will be enhanced along Main Street and connect through underused route ways to its flanking green space of The Commons and the Upper and Lower Mill Pond”.

Cllr Miller warned that inflationary pressures since the original proposal would lead to some adaptions to the scheme, the value of the funding being less than it was in 2022.

Seconding Cllr Miller’s proposal the scheme be backed, Leader Cllr Jon Harvey, county councillor for the Pembroke St Mary North ward, said: “I’m extremely pleased about the levelling-up money coming into this town; Pembroke is a wonderful town, but it is underperforming, with businesses struggling.”

He stressed a need for collaborative work on the project: “Community ‘buy-in’ is very important, we need to work closely with the community and the town.”

Members backed a recommendation to approve the scheme and the match-funding element, along with the signing of the memorandum.

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Haverfordwest shoplifter admits theft and criminal damage

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A 23-YEAR-OLD Pembrokeshire man has been sentenced by magistrates after admitting stealing cans of Hooch and a bottle of wine from the B&M store, Haverfordwest.

Rhys Wheeler was seen stealing three cans of Hooch and a bottle of wine from the store on December 4. As a result, he was arrested by police officers and placed inside a police van.

“He started shouting and swearing and was put in the back of the van, in a cage,” Crown Prosecutor Nia James told Haverfordwest magistrates this week.

“En-route, officers stopped to make a phone call to the defendant’s mother and this was when he kicked out and spat towards one of the officers, causing saliva to land on the perspex of the cage. He later said he had HIV.”

Wheeler, who is currently on no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to the theft of the drinks, valued at £8.70, and of causing criminal damage to the police cage.

He was represented in court by solicitor, Tom Lloyd.

“He’d lost his job at a sushi bar and things have been difficult for him since then,” he said.

“He wasn’t in quite the right frame of mind and didn’t know what he was doing.

“There are no excuses for what he’s done and if you sit down with him today, he would tell you how genuinely sorry he is for what he’s done.”

Wheeler was ordered to pay £100 compensation to Dyfed-Powys Police for the damage caused to the police van and £8.70 compensation to B&M, Haverfordwest. He was fined £80 and ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £32 surcharge. “

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Father-of-two sentenced for destroying car

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A MAN has been sentenced for trashing a car that had been left in a car park in Fishguard town centre.

Father-of-two Daniel Mitchell walked up to the car, which was owned by Mr Lloyd Bowen, during the night of September 13, 2024 and:-

SMASHED each of the passenger side windows;

SMASHED the boot window;

SMASHED each of the rear lights and

SCRATCHED the paintwork on the car bonnet and the driver’s door.

“The car was completely destroyed,” Crown Prosecutor Nia James told Haverfordwest magistrates this week.

“It was surrounded by broken glass and it looked as if the damage had been caused by a weapon.”

The court was told that Mr Bowen had parked the car close to his father’s property in Harbour Village, Fishguard, at around 9.30pm, but when he returned to it just before 7.30am the following morning, he discovered it had been extensively damaged.

Mitchell, 29, of Dunster Close, Rugby, pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage to the vehicle.

He was fined £600 and was ordered to pay £500 compensation to Mr Lloyd Bowen, a £240 court surcharge and £85 costs.

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