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The search is on to find Carmarthenshire’s top young ambassador. Nominations are invited for Young Ambassador of the Year 2015, an award sponsored by the council’s sport and leisure department, as part of the Radio Carmarthenshire and Scarlet FM Young Achiever Awards. To be considered you will need to be part of the county-wide programme which has more than 180 youngsters signed up including 157 Bronze, 24 Silver, 6 Gold and a Platinum. You will also need to tell the radio station why they deserve the award. Ambassadors are trained by the council’s sport and leisure team and part of their role is to encourage and inspire other children in their school to take part in sport and physical activity by running lunchtime clubs. The aim of the programme is to get more people, more active, more often. There are three stages at county level – bronze, silver and gold – that start at primary school age right through to university level. Carmarthenshire student Theo Davies-Lewis is a Platin...

An Ammanford resident who won work training and advice in a One Carmarthenshire/Un Sir Gar competition has now found a new job in just seven weeks. Kim Maisey, from Ammanford, won a ‘Back to Work Bundle’ including job training in the Where’s 1 competition launched in early November. With the support of the team he had four job interviews and has started work with TSM Ltd on contract to Day’s Rentals at Gorseinon. The Where’s 1 team toured the county with a giant pink 1, with the aim of raising awareness of the services that the project offers, which include back to work support, training and apprenticeship signposting. Radio Carmarthenshire and Scarlet FM supported Un Sir Gar/One Carmarthenshire in organising the competition by providing clues and updating listeners on where ‘1’ was each day. Locations included Ammanford, Carmarthen, Llanelli, St Clears and Llandovery, where the team battled a mixture of wind, rain and frost. Participants were invited to discuss various ‘Back to Work...

Scarlets rugby announcer and local radio hero Tommo has been awarded a Presenter of the Year prize at prestigious national awards. From the thousands of presenters on stations across the UK, Tommo was one of just three nominees in his category. Tommo has been a regular voice on radio stations in West Wales for a number of years and has hosted the Breakfast show on Radio Carmarthenshire for the past two years. You can hear his programme from 6am on 97.1FM across Carmarthenshire and 97.5FM in Carmarthen Town. Tommo also hosts programmes on sister stations Radio Pembrokeshire, Radio Ceredigion and Scarlet FM. Tommo is also the pitchside announcer for the Scarlets during home fixtures. The Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards 2011 were held in London. Tommo won Presenter of the Year (small territory). Global Radio’s Classic FM took home the Station of the Year for 1m, Smooth Radio’s David Kid Jensen was awarded Lifetime Achievement Award and Bauer Media’s Dee Ford was given the Arqiva Gold. The ...

Thousand words written, assorted phone calls fielded and just done a radio interview with Tommo of Radio Carmarthenshire/Scarlet FM.