http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk ... THE new owners of clothing company Gelert have cut 31 jobs from their Porthmadog base, and fears are growing this week over the future of the remaining 50 workers. It was confirmed this week that 31 distribution jobs have been axed. Local councillor Selwyn Griffiths said he now fears for... http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/22173/ 2012-02-02T00:00:00-00:00 A £20 MILLION project to demolish a wooden bridge and toll house near Penrhyndeudraeth was given the green light this week Planners at Snowdonia National Park approved plans to knock down the existing Briwet Bridge and toll house and replace it with a new road, rail, cycle way and pedestrian... http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/22174/ 2012-02-02T00:00:00-00:00 BRYAN “Yogi” Davies returned home to Bala this week having spent the last two years in hospital. And he is hoping to attend a special rugby match to raise funds for him. He was taken back to hospital in 2010 with pneumonia and his family have spent the past two... http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/22175/ 2012-02-02T00:00:00-00:00   BARMOUTH Town Council is to invite Welsh superstar Ioan Gruffudd to the official unveiling of a plaque to remember Titanic Fifth Officer Harold Lowe who lived in the town. The unveiling of the plaque will take place in Barmouth Harbour on 15 April 2012, - 100 years to the... http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/22176/ 2012-02-02T00:00:00-00:00 LORD Dafydd Wigley has strongly criticised the Government’s plan to impose an indiscriminate cap on welfare benefits, claiming that it will have a damaging impact on the lives of thousands of already vulnerable people. Voting against the proposal which is part of the Welfare Reform Bill currently passing through the... http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/22177/ 2012-02-02T00:00:00-00:00  A BUS company has come under fire from a Bont-goch couple who claim their 12-year-old daughter was left stranded in Talybont after a bus driver refused to take her to school because she had no pass or cash with her, writes James Nicholas. A minibus normally takes Year 8 pupil... http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/22048/ 2012-02-01T00:00:00-00:00 A MAN who stole food from an Aberystwyth shop had “good motives” in trying to help a homeless man, a court heard. Craig Andrew Weston, of 21 Maesheli, was seen by staff at the Spar store in Northgate Street taking food before handing it to another man outside the shop. ... http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/22050/ 2012-02-01T00:00:00-00:00 LAMPETER Town Council will spend thousands of pounds on mugs for local schoolchildren to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in June, despite the issue dividing councillors. The plan to spend up to £2,000 of taxpayers’ money on mugs for more than 400 pupils at the town’s primary school was approved... http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/22052/ 2012-02-01T00:00:00-00:00 Controversy over use of taxpayers’ cash in current economic climate THE USA-based illustrator of the famous Paddington Bear books has donated an original drawing to a charity shop in Cardigan after reading a Cambrian News article online. RW Alley sprang into action when he received a Google News Alert for a Cambrian News story about the theft of a valuable... http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/22054/ 2012-02-01T00:00:00-00:00 DOG fouling and rats are becoming a “real problem” in Llanidloes, according to councillors in the town.   But despite complaining to Powys County Council, Llanidloes town clerk Sonia Pritchard was told there was “not much they could do” as the rats were spotted in public areas, rather than private... http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/22061/ 2012-02-01T00:00:00-00:00