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  • Thatch the way to do it

    While the debate over the perceived rights and wrongs of the Brithdir Mawr Roundhouse rages on, reporter Jenny Hanson takes a look at two sustainable, low-impact homes that have been given the go-ahead by local planning authorities. When it comes to building

  • Generous Taverners' donations

    Disabled students at Pembrokeshire College will benefit from a new minibus, thanks to The Lady Taverners. The keys to the vehicle were handed over to the college's assistant principal, Barry Walters, by Glamorgan cricketer Steve Watkins at a special presentation

  • D-Day special - 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings

    No celebration - just vivid and searing memories of Normandy 60 years ago. Thousands of Welsh soldiers, sailors and airmen played their part in the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy 60 years ago. It was the greatest invasion the world has ever

  • Against all odds

    Jessica Sutton is 18 and lives with her family in Neyland. She has cerebral palsy but her determination, outgoing personality and encouragement from her family has enabled her to lead as normal a life as possible. She attended Sir Thomas Picton School

  • Ups and downs of farm life

    The path to agricultural diversification can be fraught with obstacles as one Ceredigion livestock producer has discovered. Planning delays meant that Marc Davies took more than four years to realise his ambition to open a quadbike trekking centre to

  • Sixty years of farming memories

    The sharp wit and happy personality of farmworker Reggie Evans stood him in good stead when his his life took a new direction virtually overnight. From ploughman and head teamsman, he found himself some 40 years ago suddenly precipitated into the tourism

  • Say cheese!

    West Wales is leading the renaissance in Welsh farmhouse cheesemaking according to an influential cookery writer. You just have to examine the growth of this industry in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion in the last decade to appreciate Tamasin

  • Dear Miss Sylvia...

    A small Cadbury's chocolate box hidden in the attic of an Amroth cottage for 70 years has revealed a remarkable friendship which blossomed between a teenage girl from Pembroke and a talented young Japanese ship designer. Dozens of letters inside the box

  • Talking turkey

    Pembrokeshire's turkey farmers are targeting efficiency improvements to operate in a market place dominated by cheap imported poultry. At its peak of production, Solbury Farm Turkeys reared 40,000 birds a year at its site on the Dale Road, near Haverfordwest

  • East-West exchange

    Last week we revealed the secrets of a small Cadbury's chocolate box hidden for 70 years in the attic of an Amroth cottage. It contained letters exchanged by a teenage girl from Pembroke, Sylvia Adams, and a talented young Japanese ship designer, Sadao

  • Turn up the heat

    Energy crops grown in Pembrokeshire will fuel the heat and power requirements of the £61 million Bluestone holiday village. Developer William McNamara, a farmer who diversified into the leisure industry, is working with local arable growers to ensure

  • Support group keeps home fires burning

    It's almost a year since President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the war with Iraq. For the families with loved ones in the Gulf, their first thoughts when they wake up are with their son, daughter, husband, wife, dad, mum, boyfriend, or

  • 19th century Tenby brought back to life

    A spirited spinster's lively account of a sojourn in 19th century Tenby takes a fresh look at life in the town and the pastimes of its many Victorian visitors. Miss Lucy Amelia Lawford spent five months in the resort, where she lodged at 23 The Norton

  • Young cyclists on track for heart charity

    NEARLY 100 young cyclists turned out on Bank Holiday Monday for the eighth Pembrokeshire Junior Bike Ride at the County Showground,Haverfordwest. Event organiser Andrew Jones, of the British Heart Foundation, said: "All week I had a careful eye on the