ON MONDAY (Nov 17) representatives of the national Coastguard SOS campaign group met UK Shipping Minister John Hayes in Westminster to discuss the controversial plan to close half of the...
IN AN EMBARRASSING incident at a Corporate Governance Committee meeting on Monday( Nov 17), Council Monitoring Officer Laurence Harding was forced to withdraw an objection he had raised to a proposal for the...
IN 2013/14 the council’s approved cost reduction target of £1.6m was said to have been achieved. This was accepted by Cabinet without query. However, a retired auditor, John Hudson, has revealed...
MAGISTRATES bound over a man from Tenby on Wednesday (Nov 19) after he had been charged with disorderly conduct. James John Flynn, aged 39 of Vicarage Field, Manorbier pleaded not guilty to...
THE WELSH GOVERNMENT MINISTER responsible for Public Services, Leighton Andrews, has expressed his concern about senior officer pay-offs in local government. In a letter to Delyth Evans, Labour Parliamentary Candidate for South Pembrokeshire, Mr Andrews...
A NEW Welsh Government housing finance scheme will give Pembrokeshire County Council more to spend on housing services, such as wardens for controlled accommodation and money to enhance more challenged housing estates in...
JOYCE WATSON AM has welcomed the announcement that the Welsh Government is urgently considering improvements to the A40, with an assessment being completed within the next six months. The prospect of adding more carriageways...
DESPITE an announcement last week from Sainsbury’s that some new store developments, nationally, will not go ahead, it seems a supermarket still wants a convenience store in Narberth. Sainsbury’s proposition has left many...
CLAIMS by local health campaigners that there has been a significant change in the arrangements for out of hours paediatric care at Withybush Hospital have been denied by the Local Health...
DETECTIVES from Dyfed Powys Police have arrested a 34 year old male at a Milford Haven property on Wednesday night (Nov 19) on suspicion of fraud. In an ongoing investigation, officers have...
WHEN police began their evening patrol on October 26, they didn’t expect to find a man exposing himself to them in Castle Square, Haverfordwest. On Tuesday (Nov 18), magistrates at Haverfordwest Law...
AT HAVERFORDWEST MAGISTRATES’ COURT on Tuesday (Nov 18), an 18-year-old man from Pembroke Dock was dealt with for theft of lager. Dylan Joseph Deacon of Dimond Street pleaded guilty to stealing a...