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  • Stephanie: the storm goes on

    WITH extensive coverage in Welsh and British national daily newspapers, two HTV documentaries to date, and even coverage on 'This Morning,' the ordeal of Stephanie Lawrence is emerging as the biggest, darkest cloud to loom over the county authorities

  • Council continue to stifle debate

    Dear editor Re: the ombudsman's report on the 'Mrs Price' affair The chairman of the council is under an obligation to chair meetings of the council with regard to the rights of councillors, the interest of the community and ensure that the council meeting

  • Bin there, done that!

    THE Mount estate received an early spring clean last weekend. A litter pick around the estate last Saturday was organised by Mount youth worker Kathy Gray and Claire Beynon of the Prince's Trust, who also funded the tidy-up. The band of squeaky-clean

  • Lucky Camrose saved by the rain

    Camrose 1 Hakin 2 Match abandoned at half time Referee Phil Gale called a halt to this mud bath in Camrose at half time. The decision to start, when every other first division game had been postponed, looked decidedly optimistic. And as conditions worsened

  • Mercury comment: A Taxing issue

    IN THE last couple of weeks, Milford Haven and Haverfordwest town council set their precepts, which, to those not versed in such terminology, is the money which goes into their coffers from the householders in each of their respective areas. We tend not

  • Boswell's boys on the march

    Pembroke 41 St Clears 0 OSSIE Boswell's red army remain in pole position in division five west with the 41 point thumping of mid-table St Clears. The die-hard Scarlets' fans that braved the wind and driving rain saw flying wing Huw Purser bag a hat-trick

  • Raffaela celebrates 100!

    LANGUAGE was no barrier for Italian great-grandmother Raffaela Tamilia as she celebrated her 100th birthday last Friday. Mrs Tamilia was born and bred in Italy but has lived in Pembrokeshire for 25 years and although she does not speak much English she

  • Voyage of a lifetime

    THE VOYAGE of a lifetime awaits one lucky Milford Haven sailor when the majestic tall-ship Tenacious arrives in port later this year. The Tenacious is one of only two tall-ships in the world equipped to allow able-bodied and physically disabled people

  • The elderly have rights too

    Dear editor I recently called into our local Job Centre and was offered the opportunity to apply for a job as a care worker for the elderly and visiting them in their own homes. Unfortunately I have no experience in this area. My forte is caring for children

  • Council no to cockle pickers

    HEALTH and safety fears are hampering attempts to harvest up to 3,000 tonnes of cockles near Pembroke, said to be worth £2m. More than 20 cockle pickers held a protest at the foreshore at Bentlass yesterday (Wednesday) over problems with an application

  • Here's one way to solve Neyland traffic problems

    Dear editor Re. Safety fears over Neyland's Traffic Problems (Mercury, January 20). One solution to the problems would be to create a single-lane, one-way traffic flow down the High Street, then left along the front and up Riverside Avenue. Heavy goods

  • Community workers take concerns to PM

    TWO community workers from Milford Haven's Mount Estate took residents' concerns straight to the man at the top this week. Prime Minister Tony Blair invited Colin Robbins and Joyce Walters to a reception at 10 Downing Street in recognition of their hard

  • Town gears up for Nelson anniversary

    MILFORD Haven is gearing up to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the death of Admiral Lord Nelson, who famously described the town as one of 'the finest harbours in the world.' To commemorate the death at the battle of Trafalgar of Milford's most famous

  • 90% jobless at the Mount

    NINETY per cent of people living on Milford Haven's Mount Estate are unemployed and 80 per cent are dependent on benefits, startling new figures show. Less than five per cent of residents are in full-time employment and three quarters of 16-25 year-olds

  • Rugby round-up

    Quins make hard work of it Pembroke Dock Quins 7 Llandeilo 5 THIS was a game which Pembroke Dock Harlequins were expected to win, and they did, but they made very hard work of it. Coach Lenny Scourfield will be happy with the final outcome but he will

  • Park Authority fight back

    Dear editor I refer to recent press reports and to suggestions that the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority is in some way not defending the Judicial Review process with sufficient vigour. Nothing could be further from the truth and I consider

  • £700 cheque forger rumbled

    A YOUNG Haverfordwest woman forged a cheque for £700 and paid off her bills with the money, a court heard this week. Toni Marie Edwards was living in Rosemarket in September of last year when a cheque book belonging to the previous occupier arrived through

  • Lawrence case: no apology yet

    MORE than a month after Pembrokeshire County Council was told to make amends for the way it had punished a woman who fought against her kids being wrongly placed on the 'at risk' register, that woman is still waiting. An investigation by the Ombudsman

  • New era for Milford shopping park

    MILFORD Haven could step out of Haverfordwest's shadow as Pembrokeshire's premier shopping destination after Haven's Head Retail Park was bought by a London-based company. Retail investment and development firm LXB Properties Limited wants to revitalise