THE countdown is well and truly on for St David’s Day on March 1 and a long weekend of annual celebration concerts.
This time around, we are going to face plenty of choices as there are three west Wales concerts on the schedule at Carmarthenshire

TRIBUTES have been paid this week to Jenkins Bakery director and company secretary David Jenkins, who died suddenly at the age of 66.
David was a key pillar in the widely-admired family firm – a business established by his grandparents, David and Elizabeth, in

MY grandfather must have had the gift of looking into the future when he left me a treasured World War Two metal helmet.
He knew the steel ‘Mark II No 2’ Home Guard headwear would come in handy for a journalist willing to suggest radical

THE BANK TILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC!
I was queuing in my bank, waiting to deposit my winnings from the one-armed bandit in my local pub.
For those of you who don’t know, he’s a Brazilian named Pedro Gonzales and (as he’s

INTERESTED in pop, rock and opera? Then, the popular musical duo called Zirenz have something which is just up your street.
Zirenz are Bex Hazard and Cat Llewelyn, two singers and musicians based in the heart of the Gwendraeth Valley.
They are already making an

There will be hotly-contested elections for the seats vacated by retiring councillor John Jenkins in the Elli Ward in Llanelli.
The elections will be for a single seat in the Town Council ward and a single seat in the ward for Carmarthenshire County Council.
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