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Garden Date for Bretons | The National Botanic Garden of Wales A Breton band will be playing celtic music and dancing in celebration of a special ‘twinning’ milestone at a local landmark. The Lesneven-based ensemble Bagad Bro Even will be in the National Botanic Garden on Friday (May 25) to celebrate 30 years of twinning between Carmarthen and the Brittany town. A party of around 70 will visit the Garden and the 30-strong band and dancers will perform – in full Breton costume, complete with headdresses – from about 10.30am.

Carmarthen has been identified as a good practice example for a university research study. Phil Grice, from the Carmarthen-As Pontes Twinning Association, and Lorena Prist, EU Networking Officer for Carmarthenshire County Council, were asked to take part in a study on UK-Spain twinning links. The project, called “UK-ES Twins” is coordinated by the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain and the Uppsala University, in Sweden and is aimed at developing a framework for discussion and exchange of best practice, which will improve twinning in Europe, mainly at regional level. After filling an online survey, Phil Grice and Lorena Prist were interviewed via video conference by the university researcher, Alexander Bunten. The results and subsequent recommendations of this study will be published later this year. Carmarthenshire County Council executive board member for regeneration and leisure Cllr Clive Scourfield said: “I am delighted to hear about this praise for the good work being carried o...