SWANSEA marina has a special place in my heart; it was where I first met my darling wife Carol.
Some of you may have heard the story: we met in the crow’s nest of a replica of Sir Francis Drake’s Golden Hinde. (It’s a long

IT was someone a lot wiser than me who once declared, “Grandfathers are just antique little boys.”
It’s a thought I will not disagree with as I seem to have spent much of this ‘summer’ revisiting places from my childhood – and places which were

WHAT’S in a name change, eh? Well, quite a lot for many people when the title refers to something close to their hearts.
The ink is hardly dry on the row over the Bannau Brycheiniog/Brecon Beacons name change . . . and now we have

IT was big, it was bold and (in so many different ways) it was bloody good.
It was a privilege to be in the audience for Llanelli Youth Theatre’s Sweeney Todd last week. It was one of the theatrical ‘events’ of the year for this

ONCE upon a time, former USA President George W Bush said, “The trouble with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur”.
But . . . hang on a minute, did he actually say it?
The answer, as you probably guessed, is, No,

THE starting gun has been fired to find nominations for the 2024 Carmarthen Town Council Sports Awards.
Sporting clubs and individuals are being asked to submit their nominations in 11 categories.
The awards are hotly contested each year and the independent judging panel includes Llanelli,