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A team of pupils from Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn in Carmarthenshire made it to the semi finals of the Young Consumers of the Year Competition. They represented Carmarthenshire at the Welsh regional competition this week at Cardiff City Stadium but did not make it through to the finals. They represented Carmarthenshire and got to the semi final alongside teams from Bridgend, Torfaen, Powys, Monmouthshire, Ynys Mon, Flintshire, and Caerphilly. The team of four, Mark Ramsey, Liam Webb, Andrew Lemmon and Jack Davies, went with business studies teacher Dylan Williams, Carmarthenshire County Council executive board member for public protection Cllr Jim Jones, Lead Trading Standards Officer Huw Lloyd and Trading Standards Officer Kayleigh Phillips. The team enjoyed a tour of Cardiff City Stadium before the competition. The competition is organised nationally by the Trading Standards Institute and locally by the Carmarthenshire Trading Standards Services section. The council’s executive board memb...

A team from Amman Valley School, Ammanford has won this year’s Carmarthenshire Young Consumers of the Year competition, run by Carmarthenshire Trading Standards Services. The national competition is organised by the Trading Standards Institute (T.S.I.), the national body representing trading standards officers in the UK and aims to increase consumer awareness amongst young people. The competition took the form of a quiz between teams of four, all between the ages of 14 and 17, from schools and colleges. The subjects covered included consumer law, money, credit and finance, environmental issues, and food and safety. This year the Carmarthenshire final, which was sponsored by Brecon Carreg, was contested between three qualifying teams, Amman Valley School, Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn and Ysgol Tre-Gib on Friday January 27, in the Carwyn James Suite, Parc Y Scarlets. The winning Amman Valley School team consisted of Aidan Ware, Daniel Matthews, James Leonard, Kieran Lloyd-Jones, and reserve ...