This year’s Carmarthen River Festival will take place on Saturday, August 17.
The fun-filled day at the town’s Quayside will start at 3pm and run into the early evening.
And for the first time in its history, the perennial summer favourite will end with a

THE perils of social media, eh? You could probably write a decent 80,000-word PhD thesis on the topic.
Your dissertation could include chapters such as ‘How social media left me with egg on my face’ and ‘Is social media a dangerous tool for mobilising mob

IT’S a long story, but today I should have been working at the Palace of Versailles, a very long hop, skip and a jump from the Olympics city of Paris.
The team of volunteers preparing for next week’s modern pentathlon events at the palace will

FEEDBACK is much appreciated when it comes to this weekly column – if only to reassure me that some folk are reading and paying attention!
There’s been quite a bit of reaction to last week’s piece about Hollywood legend Glynis Johns being buried in Burry

PAY attention film buffs: here’s a question to test your knowledge.
Name the Mary Poppins star who is buried in a quiet corner of a Burry Port chapel cemetery.
She was nominated for an Oscar and won a Tony Award for a celebrated role in

Here’s a tribute piece I wrote about Wales rugby great Ken Owens for the Sports Aid Cymru Wales dinner programme on Friday –
KEN OWENS TRIBUTE AND TOAST
IN the hall of fame of Welsh rugby greats, there are a handful of celebrated players who