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Stories for 9 October 2002

Tivyside Features

Clean living!

While the rest of the country sloshed around in gumboots wondering just how much wetter the winter of 2000 could get, Liz Hobbs and Steve Taylor-Croke were as happy as two newts in a ditch.  more...

Tivyside News

Minister visits blackspot

Welsh Assembly environment minister Sue Essex took a look at the Tesco junction accident blackspot for herself during her visit to Cardigan on Saturday.   more...

Airport offers passenger flights

West Wales Airport is able to offer a civilian passenger service for the first time in its history, now The Mann Organisation has been awarded an Air Operators Certificate from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).  more...

Calls for new bridge

Companies are being put off coming to Cardigan because of sub-standard road connections and a call has been made to build a second bridge over the River Teifi at Cenarth.  more...

Postman stole letters

A young postman stole mail he was supposed to deliver in the Newcastle Emlyn area, and mail he picked up from various collection boxes  more...

Father-of-three killed in crash

A father-of-three died after his motorbike crashed into a tractor at a notorious accident blackspot near Cardigan on Sunday.  more...

Pregnant woman in crash

Considering the nature of a head-on crash between two Peugeot cars at the Boncath road junction, Rhoshill, near Cardigan, at about 8.30 on Saturday night the occupants remarkably escaped injury.  more...

Broadband alarm bells

Cardigan's broadband system is out there for the asking - but unless 450 locals make the request to BT, the ultra-fast communications network could be lost for ever.  more...

COMMENT

A policeman's lot is not a happy one.  more...

£6m retail plan

Hundreds of new jobs could be on the horizon for the Cardigan travel to work area, following news this week of a proposed £6m retail and leisure development just outside the town.  more...

Carer stole cash from OAP

After magistrates decided against imposing a custodial sentence on a social services carer, who breached the trust of an elderly and very ill Cardigan woman by stealing money from her pension, the relieved 19-year-old broke down sobbing.  more...

New Menter face

Menter Aberteifi has appointed a new administrator to take over from Monika Sparham.  more...

LETTERS

A selection of letters from this week's edition.  more...

Survey favours 'easy English'

We're ill-informed, under-funded and undeveloped. Over two-thirds of us are unable to speak Welsh and, given the choice, the vast majority of us would ditch Welsh altogether in favour of the easier English option. These are the astounding results of an in-depth survey of Ceredigion residents carried out by the county council earlier this year.  more...

Smokies case set for sentence

EIGHT West Wales farmers will be sentenced by a crown court judge later this month after pleading guilty to possessing meat unfit for human consumption.  more...

Ex-monk jailed

Cannabis resin and herbal cannabis valued between £4,588 and £5,648 seized from a one-time Hari Krishna monk led to his being sent to prison for two years by Judge Gerald Price at Swansea Crown Court.  more...

kids 'running riot'

Youngsters are running riot in Cardigan in full view of CCTV cameras, and nothing is being done about the situation, according to town leaders.  more...

Neigbours in court - again

To say there was no love lost between next-door neighbours in the village of Rhydlewis would be putting it mildly.  more...

Tivyside Sport

Club appoints youth guru

A clear indication that Cardigan Rugby Club is set on nurturing young talent in the area is the appointment of coach and former first team skipper Derek Burton as the club's first development officer, writes John Adey.  more...

Cardis winning streak

Division Three (West): Cardigan 45 points Trimsaran 10 points  more...

Golfing's in the genes!

It's thanks largely to some expert tuition from his uncle coupled with his own dogged perseverence that an up and coming schoolboy golfer has over the past year impressively trimmed his handicap from 18 to 12.  more...

Emlyn grab a win

Aberystwyth 20 points NC Emlyn 37 points  more...

Match of the day

Cardigan fully underlined their title intentions with a narrow but deserved win over champions Aberaeron.  more...

Results and fixtures

Results Saturday October 5  more...

  
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