Free Welsh lessons now available for 18 to 25s and teaching staff
YOUNG people and education staff in Wales can now access free Welsh lessons as part of a Welsh Government initiative to increase the number of Welsh speakers. The commitment is part of the Co-Operation Agreement with Plaid Cymru. 18 to 25 year…
Police launch investigation after man suffers serious injury in Station Road, Burry Port
Dyfed-Powys Police is investigating after a man suffered a serious injury in Station Road, Burry Port. Officers were called to a report that the man had suffered an injury at around 10.45pm on Saturday, 24 September. He has been taken…
Steam Fair Rallys the visitors to Pembrey Country Park
The air at Pembrey Country Park was filled with steam and that familiar autumnal smell of coal burning for those of a certain age over the weekend. Not particularly PC or appealing to any climate change campaigners but to…
Three Carmarthenshire schools receive glowing Estyn school inspection reports
IT’S been a tough couple of years for schools, but three primaries in Carmarthenshire may have a spring in their step after strong reports by Welsh Government education inspectors. Estyn inspections of Cross Hands, Drefach and Llandybie primaries published this…
Eleven community groups kickstart engagement projects on Wales constitutional future
ELEVEN Welsh community groups have been awarded funding by the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales to support its national conversation on the future of Wales. The Independent Commission for the Constitutional Future of Wales is the first…
Health Minister gives update on Adferiad programme supporting people with Long Covid
ELUNED Morgan, Minister for Health and Social Services has issued a statement giving updated information on the Adferiad programme launched in June 2021. The Health Minister said: “It is almost two-and-a-half years since the World Health Organisation declared a global…
Fears Elvis Festival could suffer as Grand Pavilion Porthcawl closes for two years
by Lewis Smith FUTURE plans to develop the Grand Pavilion in Porthcawl could leave questions over the town’s iconic Elvis festival in the next few years organisers have said, as they prepare for this weekends annual celebrations. The massive festival,…
Natural Resources Wales decides to maintain trail hunting ban on its land
A BAN on trail hunting on land owned by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) will continue, despite a criminal conviction for a director of a foxhounds group in England being overturned. NRW decided to introduce a ban on trail hunting, which…
Chef opens pop up carvery at care home
A chef who has opened a pop-up pub restaurant style carvery in his care home has been shortlisted for a top award. Mark Hearne has also started a cooking club for residents at the Ty Cwm Gwendraeth nursing home, Llanelli,…
From the courts September 21st
The following people appeared before Llanelli Magistrates’ Court on September 21st 2022. 24-year-old Miss Georgia Simpson of no fixed abode. The court heard that 02/09/2022 at Yssbyty Ystwyth Simpson assaulted PC 179 Herron an emergency worker, acting in the exercise…