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Festival of Hope provides great day out

Published

9 years ago

June 27, 2017

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Family fun: A day of celebration at Carew (pics. Mike Hillen)

CAREW was full of celebration and family fun on Saturday (Jun 24) as local entertainers, businesses and emergency services spent a day at the Festival of Hope.

The festival was organised to celebrate the legacy of Adam Evans-Thomas, whose battle with leukaemia inspired all of those around him.

The organisers said about the background of the festival: “Almost 25 years ago, a young carefree lad called Adam Evans-Thomas was diagnosed with leukaemia in Withybush Hospital. Finding that he was a rare tissue type with no matches in his family, he set about searching for a bone marrow donor.

“That search ended with 3000 blood donors being recruited for the Welsh Blood Service and a huge addition to the Welsh Blood Tissue Typing Service from Pembrokeshire volunteers. Adam raised £45,000 before he died to help pay for the tissue typing – then in its infancy.

“Today, we look back and see his legacy to Pembrokeshire: An inclusion into the Guinness Book of Records for the most Bone Marrow Donors recruited in a day; a new high dependency Room in the Heath Hospital’s Transplant Unit, called ‘The Pembrokeshire Room’, a new Cancer Support / Distraction Centre in Haverfordwest Called ‘Adam’s Bucketful of Hope Cancer Support Centre’, giving free treatments to Cancer patients and carers and now finally, a newly completed ‘Pembrokeshire Haematology and Oncology Day Unit’ in Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest.

“For a quarter of a century, you, Adam’s family and friends, have all toiled away fundraising for the NHS.”

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Hakin motorist banned after driving 14 times over drug limit

Published

13 hours ago

June 9, 2026

Sarah-Jane Absalom

A HAKIN motorist has been banned from driving for three years after being caught behind the wheel with cocaine and benzoylecgonine in his system.

Mark Briskham, 53, of Waterloo Square, Wellington Road, Hakin, was stopped by police on January 5 as he drove a Ford Kuga along Steynton Road, near Milford Haven.

Blood tests carried out at the police station showed he had 800mcg of benzoylecgonine in his system. The legal limit is 50mcg.

He also had 64mcg of cocaine in his system. The legal limit is 10mcg.

Briskham pleaded guilty to two drug-driving charges when he appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court this week.

Magistrates disqualified him from driving for three years, taking into account a previous drug-drive conviction from 2020.

He was also fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £48 surcharge.cr

Crime

Begelly man remanded over alleged May Day assault

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13 hours ago

June 9, 2026

Sarah-Jane Absalom

A PEMBROKESHIRE man has been remanded in custody following an alleged May Day assault against a woman in Begelly.

Tomas Baker, 34, of Ty Dee, New Road, Begelly, is accused of assaulting the woman, causing actual bodily harm, at an undisclosed location in Begelly on May 1.

Baker appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court this week by video link from Swansea Prison.

He pleaded not guilty to the charge.

His trial will take place at Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court on June 22.

Crime

Waterston man denies child rape and sexual assault charges

Published

14 hours ago

June 9, 2026

Tom Sinclair

A WATERSTON man has appeared before magistrates charged with 13 sexual offences against children, including three allegations of raping a girl under the age of 13.

Chaisee Price, 25, of Biggins Hill, Waterston, Milford Haven, appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court this week.

He faces three charges of raping a girl under 13, eight charges of sexually assaulting girls aged between five and eight, and two charges of intentionally inciting girls under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

The offences are alleged to have taken place between 2014 and 2019.

Price denied all charges.

Because of the seriousness of the allegations, magistrates declined jurisdiction and the case will now proceed to Swansea Crown Court on July 10.

Price was released on conditional bail.

The conditions include a daily electronically monitored curfew between 6:00pm and 6:00am, no contact with the prosecution witness, no unsupervised contact with children under 18, and a requirement to surrender his passport to police.