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Llanelli community pulls together

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A Llanelli community has come together to regenerate an area blighted by vandalism and flytipping. Working with Communities First Glanymor and Tyisha, residents of Penymorfa are creating a community garden, play and events area suitable for people of all ages. To make their vision a reality, Communities First officers secured £50,000 of funding from the Welsh Assembly Government’s Local Environmental Quality Fund, and a further £8,110 from its Tidy Towns initiative. Work is now well underway, and locals have been keen to get their hands dirty to help out. Faye Davies, Communities First development officer, said: “Work is now underway on-site with Sylvan Landscapes, the New Deal Environmental Task Force and local young people all involved. “Children from the nearby Jelli Totz Nursery are also involved by growing flowers from seeds to plant in the community garden. “Foothold Green Network has been appointed to project manage the planning and landscape elements, and we hope to be ready by...

Wendy joins the Trinity team

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Wendy Xerri, has been appointed Director of Knowledge and Information at Trinity University College. Mrs Xerri, who joins the Senior Management Team, will be responsible for directing strategic and operational leadership in relation to information services and associated technical support functions essential to the effective management of data and the development and dissemination of knowledge and scholarship at Trinity and the University of Wales Lampeter, as both universities prepare to become the University of Wales Trinity Saint David later this year. She joins Trinity from the International Baccalaureate’s offices in Cardiff where she was the Global Chief Information Officer and IT Director for 5 years having previously been the IT Manager for S4C for 15 years. A graduate of the University of Glamorgan, Wendy is married with three children, Eirian, Tomos and Joshua. Wendy says “Joining Trinity has felt like coming home. Being a part of a community and joining a sector that has dev...

Going international

In the last 20 days this site has hits from countries around the world. The league table is - United Kingdom (GB) 198 United States (US) 15 France (FR) 2 United Arab Emirates (AE) 2 Croatia (HR) 1 Germany (DE) 1 Denmark (DK) 1 Hungary (HU) 1 Israel (IL) 1 Singapore (SG) 1 India (IN) 1 Pakistan (PK) 1 Egypt (EG) 1 New Zealand (NZ) 1

Carmarthen Journal on Wedi 7 this evening

There should be a spotlight on the Carmarthen Journal's 200th anniversary on Wedi7 on S4C this evening. See earlier post - http://sirgarblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/carmarthen-journals-200th-birthday.html

Welsh interest at the races

Trainers with Welsh connections in action today - Peter Bowen 16:20 Huntingdon Dunbrody House S E Durack Rebecca Curtis 18:10 Kempton Happy Fleet Dane O'Neill 18:40 Kempton Stellar Cause (USA) Dane O'Neill David Evans 14:30 Lingfield Clear Sailing P Doe 15:00 Lingfield Rapid City P Doe 16:00 Lingfield Goodbye Cash (IRE) P Doe 16:30 Lingfield Straight Face (IRE) Kevin Lundie 18:40 Kempton Jordan's Light (USA) P Doe 19:10 Kempton Transfixed (IRE) Richard Evans Evan Williams 13:40 Musselburgh Timoca (IRE) Paul Moloney 15:10 Musselburgh The Snail Paul Moloney

Reds Under-19s shine again

The Llanelli Reds Under 19s produced another fine performance at Stebonheath last night when they beat Haverfordwest Count by 4 goals to 0. The Reds goalscorers were Rikki Evans (2) and Kieran Hayes (2). The Under 19s next game is on Sunday when they play Afan Lido at Stebo in the 3rd Round of the FAW Youth Cup. (KO 2pm)

Records at Pembrokeshire swimming event

Five records were broken at the recent Pembrokeshire County Swimming Long Distance Championships at Pembroke Leisure Centre. A total of 45 swimmers took part in the Championships, from Haverfordwest Seals, Milford Haven Tigers, Pembroke & District, Tenby Dolphins, and the Fishguard Flyers. They swam long-distance events of 800m and 1500m, with some very good times produced by those swimmers who had never competed in the events before. Swimming development coach Paul Dowey thanked the organiser Ann Adams and everyone who helped out at the Championships. "Although a lot of swimmers were affected by colds and illness, we were very pleased with the results with five records broken and two standard times set," he said.