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  • Woman 'in daze' before tragic crash

    A WOMAN who started to cross a main road that she knew to be dangerous seemed to be "in a daze" according to drivers who saw the horrific crash in which she was hit by a van. Lavinia Mary Carter, 54, of Pencastell, Sarnau, died from multiple injuries

  • Grieving widower took poison

    A 69 year-old Cenarth farmer whose wife had just died poisoned himself with rodent-killer she had bought 10 years before, an inquest in Llanelli was told. Daniel Davies, of Pengwern Uchaf, left the bottle of strychnine he had used with a note explaining

  • Councillors caught up in web info

    COUNCILLORS in Newcastle Emlyn have asked for their names and contact details to be removed from the town's "unofficial" website. They have made informal representations to Jeremy Clulow of WebsWonder Design, who runs the site. But members heard at their

  • Two year wait for bypass

    WORK on two sections of the Ceredigion link-road will start early next year, but the Llandysul by-pass part of the project cannot start for at least another two years. The £30m project consists of five stretches of highway improvements on the A486 between

  • AM opens new job centre service

    Ceredigion AM Elin Jones officially opened the new Jobcentre Plus service in Cardigan last week. The new service follows a major restructuring programme designed to provide a more accessible, work-focused customer friendly service. This has involved combining

  • Heroin supply case for trial

    A man accused of possessing heroin with intent to supply in Cardigan has been committed for trial at the Crown Court. Moroccan Ardessadak Akhrkhar Idrissi, aged 38, of Canary Wharf, London, who was represented by Mike Rattenbury, pleaded not guilty to

  • Man died after collapse

    A 74-year-old man found collapsed near his lawn mower was taken to hospital but later developed pneumonia and died, an inquest heard. Ernest William King, of Maesgrug, Llanfyrnach, had had a triple heart by-pass and also suffered from Parkinson's Disease

  • Grant kudos for Mwldan

    Cardigan's Theatr Mwldan has been selected as one of Wales' top regional arts centres in a £2m Welsh Assembly funding initiative. The Mwldan is one of a dozen named Regional Arts Performing Centres which will benefit from the Arts Outside Cardiff funding

  • Cash for crash victim

    A CILGERRAN man has been awarded a six-figure compensation settlement after a horrendous car crash that left him with a catalogue of serious injuries. Gareth Watkins, 51, spent 13 months in hospital and underwent 21 operations after the accident in November

  • Eugenio finds what he's looking for!

    It's not many artists who come on a tour from Naples and find just what they are looking for in Cardigan! But that's what happened to Italian singer Eugenio Benatto who was brought to west Wales by Theatr Mwldan under a Welsh Assembly arts funding initiative