I REGARD the incremental changes to the annual entry of FIFA in the same way I do each new iPhone. Functionally, you are going to be doing exactly the same things with this iteration as you did with the last, re-enact your football fantasies and then get screamed at by a 12-year-old online because you know how to defensive dribble.
Once more going back to 1960 in Welshpool. This group of young ladies were in the Welshpool Division of St John Ambulance at the time.
CRIMES against businesses have more than tripled in Dyfed-Powys during the past year. A Freedom of Information request from an Assembly Member has found that there has been a 154% increase in business crime in Newtown over the past year.
A RESIDENTIAL care home in Llandrindod Wells will be closing its doors unless an investment of £750,000 can be found. On Tuesday, October 3, residents at Fronheulog Care Home in Llandrindod Wells were notified that the facility was to close in 30 days.
A MEMBER of Parliament must repay over £5,000 for parliamentary stationery used in a breach of conduct during the last general election. Chris Davies MP was told to repay £5,037.90 after an investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Kathryn Hudson.
LOVING parents from Bishops Castle, along with their two close friends, will take on Europe’s longest zipwire in aid of the hospital that saved their daughter. Peter and Claire Smith with friends Fi Jones and Tori Ward will travel up to Bethesda on October 23 to travel down a 1.6km zipwire at 100mph and 370 metres above the ground.
THE first extra care scheme in Powys has officially opened in Newtown. Councillor Rosemarie Harris, Leader of Powys County Council, officially opened Llys Glan yr Afon, Powys’s first extra care scheme, by cutting a ribbon and burying a time capsule.
DRIVERS in Llandrindod Wells are getting caught out by two separate ticket machines that correspond to different spaces, in what appears to be the same car park. The car park on Tudor Lane, by the old Co-operative store in the town, is actually two car parks immediately next to one another.
AN ABANDONED railway station at Carno will be looked at by Transport Secretary Ken Skates in a step towards a potential re-opening. A fresh petition, calling for the re-opening of Carno Station, was presented to Welsh Government’s Petitions Committee on Wednesday.
THE owner of a Montgomeryshire honey company has walked down the red carpet at a prestigious film premiere. The managing director of Hilltop Honey, Scott Davies, rubbed shoulders with celebrities on the red carpet at the London premier of Goodbye Christopher Robin last Wednesday night.
