YOUNG families and the disabled are set to benefit from £300,000 worth of funding to improve a section of the Wales Coastal Path on the Llŷn Peninsula.
The UK Treasury’s Coastal Communities Fund has provided the grant to Cyngor Tref Nefyn in order to make the path more accessible to people with disabilities and young families.
The funding will also be used to re-open a section of an historic 10-mile route from Nefyn to Llanbedrog. Members of Nefyn Town Council say they are delighted with the fund-ing and hope to have most of the work completed by the summer.
A CORRIS business owner has praised police officers for taking just 10 minutes to catch a thief who stole his car.
Ian Bottrill, who runs the Braich Goch Bunkhouse and Inn, reported his car missing at 2am on Tuesday, 20 January, after his wife, Ann, was woken up to the sound of the vehicle speeding out of their hotel car park.
CONCERNS have been expressed about the axeing of a Lampeter respite care home for adults with learning disabilities as part of Ceredigion County Council’s cost-cutting drive.
The services provided at Gelli Lon, a four-bedroomed house manned by Mencap staff under contract to the local authority’s Social Services department, are now expected to continue at Bryn Siriol, a purpose-built three-bedroomed house in Aberystwyth, as the council seeks to “provide respite care in a different way” by providing “hobby or activity breaks” as an alternative.
CARDIGAN traders are furious that a large section of High Street will be dug up by Ceredigion County Council workmen in a move which will see the town’s main thoroughfare closed for three weeks.
They say the closure will have a “massive” impact on trade and are now questioning whether the work will be completed in time for the crucial Easter holiday period.
NATIONAL Library staff and unions have been given until Friday to respond to proposals for a major cost-cutting shake-up involving 40 redundancies.
Staff were told last Friday the final details of a planned restructure at the library, which is expected to involve an undisclosed mix of voluntary and compulsory redundancies.
Unions said the restructuring programme would be a “difficult time” for staff and that there were “areas of concern”.
A man who had worked for a coal merchant near Machynlleth for 16 years stole money from his employer and falsified accounts to the tune of almost £1,500 to feed his alcohol habit, magistrates heard on Thursday.
