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A Llanfynydd nurse has been given a suspended prison sentence for wrongly claiming about £18,000 in benefits. Sharon Rose Bell appeared at Swansea Crown Court last week for sentencing having previously pleaded guilty to 11 offences under S.111 Social Security Administration Act 1992 – two of dishonestly making false statements, eight of dishonestly producing false documents and one of dishonestly failing to declare a change in circumstances. The court heard that in March 2006, 41-year-old Bell applied for housing benefit and council tax benefit at 5, Heol Newydd, Llanfynydd as a single person, declaring that she was working part-time at Meddygfa Teilo Surgery, Llandeilo. In April 2006 Bell stated that she had enrolled on a full time nursing degree course via Swansea University. As a result, she was advised by Carmarthenshire County Council’s Housing Benefit Section that she did not qualify for Housing Benefit. Bell then reapplied for housing benefit, declaring that she had given up the...

Carmarthenshire councillors have approved plans for two poultry farms in the county. The county council received separate applications to develop a poultry unit at Llys y Nant Farm, Llanfynydd, and to build a 12,000-bird free range egg production unit at Abercrychan Farm, Llandovery. The planning committee discussed the applications yesterday afternoon after earlier visiting both sites and a poultry farm already operating near Llandrindod. The application by Terry Davies for Llys y Nant Farm was for a free range unit for up to 16,000 laying hens with holes to allow the hens to come and go. The application by John and Josephine Hardwick of Abercrychan Farm was for a unit for 12,000 laying hens as well as processing and packing of eggs via a conveyor belt system.