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Llannon’s community allotments have been officially opened by the Chair of Carmarthenshire County Council – and there is already a waiting list for the second phase. New council Chair Cllr Siân Thomas cut the ribbon to open the allotments site close to Llannon Primary School. Gardeners have already signed up for all 22 allotments in the current phase of the project run by Dan Snaith, a local resident and Carmarthenshire project officer for Keep Wales Tidy. The committee set up to organise the allotments applied for a lease from Carmarthenshire Council, for 21 years, and were also successful in their application for a £5,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund. Llannon Community Council also donated £500 toward the project, to cover legal costs. Dan’s father Phil Snaith, who is allotments secretary, said: “From the idea to actual digging on site took 13 months thanks to support and assistance from the council’s Asset Management section in particular. “At a key stage the Community Council...

A Carmarthenshire couple well known for breeding prize-winning Welsh pigs has found a ready market for their pork on the doorstep. Joyce and Gerallt Owens of Lletty Farm, Llannon, near Llanelli, have been farming pigs for well over 20 years on their 65-acre farm but only started supplying a local farm shop and grill at Cwmcerrig, Gorslas, seven miles away after it opened early in February 2009. "We now supply pork to Cwmcerrig fortnightly as we both enthusiastically support the Farmers' Union of Wales' long-running 'Help Cut Food Miles - Buy The Welsh One' awareness campaign," said Mrs Owens, who also works as an administrative assistant at the union's county branch office in Carmarthen. "We usually supply around four to six pigs every two weeks to the farm shop but over the Christmas period, that figure more than doubles to 15 pigs. We are very happy with the steady flow and hope to keep this going for quite a while," added Mrs Owens. The couple...

Road humps are being introduced in Llannon after concerns from the majority of villagers about speeding traffic. Carmarthenshire executive board member for transport services Cllr Philip Hughes said the village had been subject to excessive vehicle speeds for many years despite regular mobile speed camera enforcement speeds remained high. He said: “Complaints continue to be received from residents and road humps are now considered the most appropriate form of speed reduction.” There had been one objection from a Llannon resident to the traffic calming measurers proposed but it did not raise any qualified road safety issues. An executive board member decision was taken to note the objection and proceed with the construction of the humps in the wider interests of road safety.