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Members of Fishguard and Goodwick Round Table are offering to be "snow heroes" for anybody who needs help in the surrounding area.

 

It has been reported: UAVs' or "drones"may be test flown over north Pembrokeshire (Hermes 450 – an Israeli UAV which is the main platform for the MOD’s Watchkeeper programme video - right)

 

Hermes 450 UAV: MoD says no to testing Watchkeeper over West Bank, but yes to West Wales ... more

 

Drone crashes at Parc Aberporth: The twisted shape of things to come? ... more

 

Tactical UAV System: Watchkeeper will provide the UK armed forces with intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) capability ... more

 
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"Fishguard won’t be getting any extra trains in the immediate future despite an Assembly enterprise committee’s recommendations, Preseli Pembrokeshire AM Paul Davies is warning.

A two-month enquiry by the Welsh Assembly’s Enterprise and Learning Committee said that the town should have more than two trains a day – a proposal backed by regional transport consortium SWITTCH, local petitioners and the North Pembrokeshire Transport Forum". ... more (WT)

 

Rosslare Ferry

Irish Ferries - Oscar Wilde: The crew of the Oscar Wilde called for help just before 1930 GMT on Tuesday ... more BBC

 

Irish Ferries - Oscar Wilde: "Its a calm Tuesday in January here in Pembroke Dock....and its a first the Oscar Wilde has to carry out a missed approach, we got a film of the second attempt where she is helped unusually with tugs" (YouTube uploader)

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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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)

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

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)

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

Swansea-Cork Ferry - a threat to Fishguard jobs?:

Irish PM gets behind Swansea-Cork ferry .... more

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

Rush to sail on new Swansea-Cork ferry ... more

Welsh transport minister Ieuan Wyn Jones said it would reinstate an important trade and tourism link between Wales and Ireland. ... more

Cork-Swansea ferry - Part 1 - RTE Radio 1 video interview ... more

Cork-Swansea ferry - Part 2 - RTE Radio 1 video interview ... more

Queen Mary 2 at Cork - video ... more

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

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

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

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

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. .... more (WT)

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

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 ... more Rolling laughter

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?

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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

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)

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. ....more

 

"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 ... more

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

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Fishguard has a relatively mild climate due to its coastal position. The winds coming from the west or south-west have a determining influence on temperature and precipitation.

 

Pembrokeshire's mild climate means that crops such as its famous new potatoes often arrive in British shops earlier in the year than produce from other parts of the UK.

 

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Sport

Western Telegraph reports: "Rugby clubs across the county must be wondering when they can get back in action after several weeks out for the autumn internationals have been followed by postponements through waterlogged pitches, and now by the snow which swept across the county on Friday and wiped out another full set of fixtures." .... more            (Archive photo)

Western Telegraph reports: "Goodwick United crushed Prendergast Villa by hitting them for five goals without reply in the only game played in the top-flight on Saturday. The Phoenix Park despite cutting-up by the end of the clash played remarkably well as Bernie Armstrong’s troops got the new year off to a perfect start."    ... more (Archive photo)

 

Cambrian Rally 2009

Rory Hall & Jon Sargeant contesting the Cambrian Rally 2009

 

 

 

Last Invasion of Britain

Liverpool’s last duel: A merchant in the West Indies he settled in Liverpool in around 1790 and seven years later donated £500 to the Liverpool defence committee, in response to the national panic caused by French troops landing at Fishguard .... more

"a military invasion of Great Britain by Revolutionary France during the War of the First Coalition" ... more

 

Moby Dick

A 1956 film adaptation of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. It was directed by John Huston with a screenplay by Ray Bradbury and the director. The film starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, ......... more

 

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Pembrokeshire's Sunderlands:

The Short S.25 Sunderland was a British flying boat patrol bomber developed for the Royal Air Force by Short Brothers. Based in part upon the S.23 Empire flying boat, the flagship of Imperial Airways, the S.25 was extensively re-engineered ... more

 

Charterhouse (video): Prince of Wales visiting Fishguard lifeboat crew and awarding a Gold Medal to Coxswain John Howells, Silver Medals to Thomas O Davies, Robert E Simpson and Thomas Holmes, and Bronze Medals to the other nine crew for rescuing seven people from the wrecked Dutch motor schooner Hermina.

 

 

 

MS Europa off North Breakwater

The MS Europa is a cruise ship owned and operated by the German company Hapag-Lloyd. It is the 4th ship to be named Europa in the company's history. For nine years in a row, the MS Europa was awarded the title "best cruise ship in the world" by Ward-Ranking and Berlitz. .... more

 

St. David's Cathedral

The monastic community was founded by Saint David, Abbot of Menevia, who died in AD589. Between AD645 and 1097, the community was attacked many times by raiders, including the Vikings, however it was of such note as both a religious and intellectual .... more

 
Strumble Head Lighthouse

The present Lighthouse was erected in 1908-09, but the first proposal to build a lighthouse here was made in 1825 by Trinity House. The present Lighthouse replaces a light-vessel previously moored in the south of Cardigan Bay and is significant as one .... more

 
"Koningin Beatrix" from Old Fort, Lower Fishguard

The fort was built following a raid on Fishguard in 1779; the privateer vessel Black Prince demanded £1,000 to return a captured local ship and as a ransom for the town. When this was refused it bombarded Fishguard, damaging St. Mary's Church and some houses.

 
Capt. Alan Price (left) of "The Haagdyve Foundation"

About 1200 years ago, the Vikings marauded and traded along the western coast of the British Isles. They regularly reached as far as, what is now known as Pembrokeshire on the west coast of Wales. The local men when asked jumped .... more

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
     

 

 

   
     
 

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

 
     
     
     
     
 
 
 
     
 

 

   
     
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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