COUNCIL workers have been praised for their hard work restoring Aberystwyth’s storm-battered promenade in time for Easter.
Work on the south promenade is said to be almost complete before the influx of visitors, but there is still some work to do on the north promenade.
The paddling pool, which was smashed up, will not be open in time, and the large shelter, which was all but destroyed, has still not been repaired.
VILLAGERS are up in arms about plans for a three-day music festival, set to be staged near Llanrhystud.
Surplus Festival has applied to Ceredigion County Council for a licence to hold the event for 1,000 people between 4 and 6 July on Mountain Farm, Joppa.
But at a meeting, chaired by Mark Thomas, local residents made it clear they are unhappy with the plan, and the apparent lack of “community engagement” by organisers.
PUPILS at Ysgol Bro Ddyfi have launched a campaign against the new name chosen for the town’s 4-18 super school.
Ysgol Bro Hyddgen was chosen because it is the name of a battlefield near Pumlumon where Owain Glyndŵr won his first big victory in 1401.
But now an anti-Hyddgen Facebook video has been produced by pupils, with many describing the name as “stupid” because Hyddgen is nowhere near Machynlleth.
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy is lucky to be alive after his car split in half and caught fire during an horrific crash near Pwllheli - just a week after he passed his driving test.
Richard Thomas Japheth, known as Richie, is in intensive care in the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke, where his parents Richard and Yvonne are at his bedside.
TRIBUTES have been paid to a much- loved husband, father and grandfather from Llanfachreth, who died when a tree fell on him on Sunday.
Arwel Thomas, 51, of Cwmheisian Uchaf - a community councillor - was clearing storm-damaged trees at his aunt’s house when the tragedy happened.
A GARNDOLBENMAEN man walked into a police station and admitted he had sexually assaulted a little girl.
Defendant Ashley James Williams (pictured) told officers that he did not know why he had done it but that he wanted to try and put it right.
