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As part of the global End Polio Now campaign, Llanelli Rotary Club members are staging a fundraising Curry and Quiz Night next month. The event is at 7pm on Thursday, May 4 at The Stag public house in Five Roads. The evening is being organised by Rotarian Joanna Isaac. Tickets are £10 and are available from any member of Llanelli Rotary Club. Joanna said: "It promises to be a fun evening and we will be raising cash on the night to help boost the End Polio Now campaign. "Everything we raise locally in Llanelli gets 'cash-matched' higher up the ladder. "We have already held a number of very successful events in aid of the charity and this Curry and Quiz Night should enable us to submit a significant total towards what is a very worthy international campaign to rid the world of polio."

Smokers in Carmarthenshire are being urged to stub-out cigarette related litter in a new campaign. Council officers are working with pub landlords and restaurants across the county to encourage people to bin their butts. During the launch of the campaign, held at the The Stag in Five Roads, Llanelli, a sample of pocket ashtrays were given to the landlord and landlady in a bid to help reduce cigarette related litter at the premises. Enforcement officers will be visiting other hotspot areas across the county and handing out posters to premises which have problems with cigarette littering to remind smokers that if they’re caught littering they could get fined £75 or a maximum of £2,500 if prosecuted through the magistrates court. Executive Board Member for Environmental and Public Protection, Cllr Jim Jones, said: “Many people do not think of cigarette ends as litter, but it is. Dropping a cigarette end is no different from throwing away any other sort of litter. It makes the area look ...

The St David's Day concert staged at Five Roads Community Hall on Friday night was a big success. There was a packed house at the hall for the event organised by the Five Roads School PTFA parent-teacher association. Children from Five Roads School (above) stole the show with their musical and recitation spot. Cor Meibion Dyffryn Aman (below) were the special guests and they provided a splendid and varied evening's entertainment under the musical direction of Ian Llewellyn. The compere for the evening was someone called Robert Lloyd - less said about him, the better!

Off to compere a concert at Five Roads Community Hall. Looking forward to hearing the children of Five Roads School.

Lovely welcome from the ladies of Five Roads WI last night (Roger Stephens and I were talking on Rotary and Shelterbox), Tea and Welsh Cakes at the close of the meeting. Smashing!

Llanelli Rotary Club staged a ‘Celebrity Ladies Sleepover’ in one of the world-famous Shelterbox tents – and raised £2,040 for Cancer Research Wales. The tents are designed for use in ‘disaster zones’ and have been airlifted into Japan and Haiti in recent years. “We have a tent which we use for demonstration purposes to show the people of Llanelli how Rotary is able to help in emergency situations in disaster zones,” said Melanie Carroll-Cliffe, the immediate past-president of Llanelli Rotary Club. “As one of the last fund-raisers for my year of office as president of Llanelli Rotary Club, we staged a ‘Celebrity Ladies Sleepover’ at Parc Elin Mair in Five Roads, Llanelli. “The club picked some special ‘victims’, sorry ‘volunteers’, to spend a night in the Shelterbox tent. “Fellow campers were Rotarians Sue Roberts and Alison Evans, Llanelli MP Nia Griffith, Eleanor Marks, Director of the Communities Division with the Welsh Government, Stradey Park Hotel owner Angela Saunders and our Ro...

Llanelli Rotary Club is staging a ‘Celebrity Ladies Sleepover’ in one of the world-famous Shelterbox tents! The tents are designed for use in ‘disaster zones’ and have been airlifted into Japan and Haiti in recent years. “We have a tent which we use for demonstration purposes to show the people of Llanelli how Rotary is able to help in emergency situations in disaster zones,” said Melanie Carroll-Cliffe, President of Llanelli Rotary Club. “But we will be putting the tent to more pleasant use on Saturday, June 18, when we stage a ‘Celebrity Ladies Sleepover’ at Parc Elin Mair in Five Roads, Llanelli. “The club has picked some special ‘victims’, sorry ‘volunteers’, to spend a night in the Shelterbox tent. I will be there, along with fellow Rotarians Sue Roberts and Alison Evans, Llanelli MP Nia Griffith, Eleanor Marks, Director of the Communities Division with the Welsh Government, Stradey Park Hotel owner Angela Saunders and our Rotary District Governor Donna Wallbank.” There will be a ...

Llandeilo Community Education Centre was closed today due to frozen pipes and thick ice in the car park. No courses took place today. Staff will make a decision later on whether they can open tomorrow. Richmond Park Primary School Carmarthen closed to day because of a failure of the school boiler system. arents are asked to check the County council website which will update the position. The school is expected to be open tomorrow, Tuesday. Five Roads Primary School was forced to close because of frozen and burst water pipes.

WalesOnline - News - Wales News - Millionaire landlady saves pub Nice one, Sandra and Ken.