Richard Youle

1 week ago | pembrokeshire-herald.com | Richard Youle

PEMBROKE TOWN COUNCIL held its Annual General Meeting on Thursday (May 1), where Councillor Gareth Jones was officially elected as the 646th Mayor of Pembroke. His daughter, Rebecca Jones, will serve as Mayoress. Councillor Jonathan Grimes was also elected as Deputy Mayor, with his wife, Councillor Deborah Willcocks, taking on the role of Deputy Mayoress. The ceremony, held at Pembroke Town Hall, marked the beginning of the civic year and continued a tradition that dates back centuries.

1 week ago | tenby-today.co.uk | Richard Youle

A rural school in Carmarthenshire with around 20 pupils is being placed in special measures, although several aspects of the way it’s run were praised. Inspectors from Welsh Government education body Estyn visited Ysgol y Fro, and picked up a safeguarding issue and found fault with the governing body. They also want to raise teachers’ expectations to challenge pupils to achieve the best of their ability.

2 weeks ago | mywelshpool.co.uk | Richard Youle

Police community support officers (PCSOs) won’t be given increased powers because more constables are due to beef up neighbourhood teams, the police and crime commissioner said. Dafydd Llywelyn also said that giving PCSOs more powers would make them less visible to the public in the Dyfed-Powys force area as they’d become more tied up with investigative work.

2 weeks ago | herald.wales | Richard Youle

SPITFIRE flights are coming to Swansea Airport in a fortnight’s time. The famous fighter plane with its rumbling Rolls-Royce Merlin engine will take to the skies for paying customers on May 11 and five dates in June, July, August and September. Representatives of Swansea Airport Stakeholders Alliance, which operates the airport at Fairwood Common, are thrilled at the tie-up with the company involved, FlyaSpitfire.com.

2 weeks ago | southwalesguardian.co.uk | Richard Youle

That is the aim of the company, Ocean Prime Industries Ltd, which is carrying out a 12-month feasibility study into the concept. Although it’s very early days, the company’s chief executive and founder Dave Sampson envisaged a vessel around 55m long which would take passengers, cars and some cargo at speeds of up to 40 knots. The zero-emission ferry would have an electric powertrain, run on clean power and have a relatively shallow draught.