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Garden vandals:
Damage valued
at £150 has been caused to a garden
boundary in Penbanc, Fishguard.
Police say that unknown youths
caused ...
more (WT) |
Vandalism on Kensington
Street / Hottipass Street junction:
Police in Fishguard are
appealing to witnesses to an incident of
criminal damage ... this time vandals smashed
the rear windscreen
... more (WT) |
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For Sale:
Chrysler Grand
Voyager Limited (2001) - Service History -
67,000 miles - Lowered floor - Powered door &
powered ramp - Drive from wheelchair or
wheelchair in front passenger space
... more
info |
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Friends group set up to ensure
Fishguard's Theatr Gwaun flourishes:
A group set up
has been set up to ensure that
Fishguard's Theatr Gwaun flourishes,
following rumours about possible
closure.
... more (WT) |
£1000 of bikes stolen from shed in Dyffryn,
Goodwick:
Bikes with a
combined value of around £1000 have been stolen
from a Goodwick shed.
...... more (WT) |
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Lighthouses could be switched off
under new plans:
Skokholm island
lighthouse, off the south-west coast
of Pembrokeshire in Wales, is also
on the list.
.... more (BBC) |
Old Grumpy:
It will come as
no surprise to readers of this column to learn
that the Leader has used these powers to appoint
himself to one of these £6,500 a year posts.
... more |
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Checkmate Tenby:
Tenby's Tudor
Square Tesco Express opens in
resort's former Woolworths store ...
more (WT) |
Rugby teen airlifted:
A 14-year-old
rugby player was airlifted to Withybush Hospital
yesterday (Sunday) after he was injured during a
game.
... more (WT) |
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Fishguard gets
passing places to its cart-track M4
link whilst Rosslare ...:
“It will be
a major impetus to economic
development in the west.
Significantly it will also bring the
west closer to the main ferry link
with Britain in Rosslare, as the
route will eventually be motorway
all the way.”
...more |
Crabb slams Lib Dem 'Dyfed' constituency plan:
Stephen Crabb,
MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire, has today
criticised a plan being put forward by the
Liberal Democrat Party in Westminster to abolish
the two existing Pembrokeshire constituencies
and merge them into a new, much larger
constituency named 'Dyfed'.
... more |
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Swansea-Cork Ferry - a
threat to Fishguard jobs?:
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Irish PM gets behind
Swansea-Cork ferry
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The blue and white MV Julia
is expected to arrive at
Swansea's dry docks on
Saturday, January 30, where
its engines will be
overhauled, and four deluxe
cabins and a children's play
area added.
... more |
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Rush to sail on new
Swansea-Cork ferry
... more |
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Welsh
transport minister Ieuan Wyn
Jones said it would
reinstate an important trade
and tourism link between
Wales and Ireland.
... more |
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Cork-Swansea ferry - Part 1
- RTE Radio 1 video
interview
... more |
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Cork-Swansea ferry - Part 2
- RTE Radio 1 video
interview
... more |
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Queen
Mary 2 at Cork - video
... more |
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The Little Rascals:
Swansea-Cork
Ferries are going to by-pass Fishguard's
cart-track to the M4 and connect Cork directly
to
.... more
Holyhead pirates plunder
Fishguard's Maritime Fleet: The Stena
Express is shortly to undergo a £2m
refit in preparation for its
press-ganged appearance at Holyhead
in March. It will run alongside the
superferry Stena Adventurer and the
freight and passenger boat the
Nordica
... more
Interceptor 42 in huge seas
at Cork Harbour:
Cork pilot boat in storm force 10 and 10m seas
undertaking pilot boarding
... more |
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Lawrence Dallaglio:
... former England
rugby union captain Lawrence
Dallaglio on every leg of his epic
2,770 mile Cycle Slam which starts
on February the 12 in Rome. ... and
ride to Nice, Paris, Twickenham, Fishguard on to Rosslare and finally
Edinburgh.
... more (BikeRadar.com) |
Fishguard - description (1803):
The appearance
of the place is very unprepossessing; the houses
are generally of a very mean description and ill
constructed, and the streets formed with so
total a disregard to symmetry and plan that they
are not only highly offensive to the eye, but
seriously inconvenient, being
... more |
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Fishguard Marina (1858) :
Mr. John Harris
outlines the benefits of a marina at
Fishguard 150+ years ago
... more |
1815 and little improvement:
... and the
streets are proverbially bad. The shops are all
upon a small scale, and ill-supplied with common
articles. Ale-houses are numerous
... more |
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Manu Pekka (docked at Fishguard
20/01/10):
A backhoe
dredger is based on the giant land-based backhoe
excavator that is mounted at one end of a
spud-rigged pontoon. Its main advantage is its
ability to dredge a wide range of materials,
including debris and soft, weathered or
fractured rocks. Boskalis has approximately 20
of these ships, including three of the largest
backhoes in the world: the Nordic Giant, the
Manu-Pekka and the Rocky.
... more |
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Western Telegraph appeals to
Information Commissioner to have
council documents released::
Pembrokeshire County Council has
again refused to release details of
how much money it has spent on
external consultants over the past
five years. As a result, the Western
Telegraph has now written to the
Information Commissioner asking for
the decision to be overturned and
the documents released.
... more |
Fishguard ... :
Now
ungovernable ... ten men killed
... more
Fishguard:
44 Guns found
... more
New PCSOs for Fishguard ... :
PCSO Olivia
Jones, who will be covering
Fishguard, St Dogmaels and
Cilegerran, is following in the
footsteps of her father who is a PC
at Fishguard police station.
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Pembrokeshire County Council spends
£1.2m on consultants’ fees:
Councillor Mike Stoddart added:
“Considering the number of highly
paid staff on the council’s payroll,
it is surprising to find £1.2m being
spent on outside help during the
last financial year.
.... more (WT) |
Bluestone bill sunk in balance
sheet:
A local
authority which hoped to mark the millennium by
re-creating a Stonehenge-era odyssey has been
landed with a five-figure bill for the project,
which ended in farce.
... more |
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Propaganda?:
Pembrokeshire
County Council manages to spend over
£200,000 with the
... more (OG) |
Ratepayers' Portfolio:
Check out the share price and latest news of
your investment in Bluestone with Google
Finance
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Another one bites the dust?:
Hardly a week
in to the new year, and another
sizeable Fishguard shop closes its
doors! Whose next for the chopping
block? |
To Rent:
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Fishguard town centre. Partly furnished. £550
per calendar month. Off road parking for 2 cars.
T:07980985990 |
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Cammell Laird:
The second of three Irish Ferries’
ships arrived for annual overhaul at
Cammell Laird today. The arrival of
the roll-on/roll-off ferry Isle of
Inishmore, for refit until January
25, directly follows the departure
from the yard of Irish Ferries’
Ulysses yesterday.
... more |
Irish Ferries:
"Oscar Wilde" stands in for "Isle of
Inishmore" at Pembroke Dock
(youtube video).
Length: 166.30 m (545.60 ft)
Tonnage: 31122 GT |
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Save the Badgers - cull the yobs:
... given the final go-ahead for a
controversial cull of badgers in an
attempt to combat bovine TB
infections.
... more (BBC) |
PCSO fines men £60:
Two men, repeatedly warned not to
cycle on the pavements of Fishguard and Goodwick,
have been fined a total of £60 for their
actions. The pair were spotted riding their
bikes on the pavement in Windy Hall, Fishguard.
... more (WT) |
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Fishguard
fire fighters praised after Trecwn
Barham Road fire:
The commitment of Pembrokeshire's
fire fighters has been commended
today (Monday), after they braved a
practically inaccessible road to
tackle a chimney fire yesterday
evening. "It was like something out
of Ice Truckers," said an onlooker.
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"Atomic batteries to power. Turbines
to speed":
Rail freight link to port in North
Wales
-
"A FREIGHT express linking Northern
Europe and Ireland could see the building of a
multi-million pound rail freight terminal in
Holyhead
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BLUESTONE:
The controversial decision by Pembrokeshire
County Council to exchange loans for share
options in the Bluestone holiday village has
taken a new twist.
... more |
BLUESTONE - WalesOnLine:
The group of companies behind the Bluestone
holiday village in Pembrokeshire were put
into administration, the Western Mail has
learnt.
...more |
