Fifty years ago November 10 2017

Hopes rose for the retention of the Whitland - Pembroke Dock rail service as the Transport Users Consultative Committee told the Ministry that closure would have an adverse effect on the economy of the area.

Pembrokeshire County Council accepted a general review of their establishment which, in the first full year of operation, would result in total salary increases of £19,087.

After a letter had been read from the Minister of Education, Miss Alice Bacon, indicating that she was not in favour of a comprehensive school at Narberth, the Urban Council decided to ask the County Council to appeal to the Secretary of State.

Pembrokeshire County Council turned down a request for traffic wardens in the county.

Plans were in hand for a road improvement at Begelly Cross.

Tenby Townswomen’s Guild was still holding the interest of members who attended the organisation’s very first meeting 14 years previously, said Mrs. Iris Davies, the Guild’s chairman, speaking at the annual meeting.

Rugby: Llangwm 3 pts Tenby United 25. Tenby United scored their sixth championship win of the season at Llangwm to maintain their 100 per cent league record. But the size and nature of their victories was impressing the fans as much as the consistency of their winning streak.

Showing at the South Beach: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney in Two For The Road; at the De Valence Pavilion: The Great Pop Night with Wishful Thinking and Fawn Grass.