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With air raid sirens wailing, mixed up with sound effects of bombs dropping, wartime London was brought to Llanelli's Antioch Centre courtesy of Ty Golau. The realism was brought into sharp focus with a fabulous effort by more than 60 schoolchildren from Penygaer CP School who dressed as evacuees, complete with their suitcases and luggage label name tags. They mingled at the war year’s re-enactment of the really professional Ty Golau team dressed as munition workers and Land Girls with even Winston Churchill putting in an appearance. The voluntary group of Janet Lewis and her friends organise different themes for the weekly Ty Golau health and wellbeing sessions for people aged 50+ in homes all over Llanelli, Pembrey, Burry Port and Kidwelly. Carmarthenshire County Council's executive board member for social care and health, Cllr Jane Tremlett, said: “The Ty Golau team excelled themselves. It was really moving to see the children interacting with the dementia clients as air r...

David Williams, of Melin y Coed, Bancyfelin, near Carmarthen, has been awarded France’s highest honour. President Hollande has appointed him a Chevalier in the L’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur. He has received the insignia of the Order and a prestigious medal. The accompanying letter emphasised that the honour was ‘in recognition of your acknowledged military engagement and your steadfast involvement in the Liberation of France’. It added that ‘We owe our security and freedom to your dedication because you were ready to risk your own life’. Mr Williams who is 97, was one of the brave soldiers who helped defend and liberate France during World War Two. As a soldier in the ‘British Expeditionary Force’ supporting France’s fight for freedom in May 1940, David Williams was evacuated with the British and French troops from Dunkerque. Following action with the 8th Army in North Africa and Italy, he took part in the liberation of France, landing in Normandy in 1944. Onc...