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  • Cardigan Show

    Top group of sheep Bethan's Castle model wins a top prize Heather's leeks are champion Haul of trophies for Wendy

  • Out and out champ

    SEISIOG Cymro 61st is an out and out champion as his record back home at Dancoed, Cwmgwaun, Fishguard, shows. After only recently successfullly defending his breed championship crown for owners Gwynfryn and Marian Phillips, at the Royal Welsh, the bull

  • Leighton is new coach

    CARDIGAN RFC has wasted no time in appointing a senior coach to succeed Derek Burton who, as reported in last week's Tivy-Side, has resigned as coaching supremo. Former ace centre-threequarter Keith Leighton, who also for a time went on to play for Whitland

  • Mr Tom is a good 'un!

    'OUTSTANDING' was the word that most often tripped from the lips of one judge after another in the horse section at Cardigan Show. And it was the word that above all else aptly applied to the section's supreme champion - the event's two-year-old Welsh

  • Last great battle for Castle

    NINE hundred years after Arglwydd Rhys rose victorious from the battlements of Cardigan Castle, the mighty Welsh warrior is returning to the fray once more in preparation for the most important battle of his life. Tomorrow (Thursday) Lord Rhys (right)

  • The Cwmbetws philosophy...

    'Politicians are renowned for telling people what they want to hear but I'm not one of those - I never have been and I never will' In 1972, whilst all around him were clamouring to retain their village schools in Brynberian and Pontyglasier, the Eglwyswrw

  • Now rugby club manager goes

    A YEAR punctuated by resignations - initially triggered by those of two life members - ended for Cardigan Rugby Football Club with the bombshell announcement that chairman and first team manager Jon Lewis (pictured right) has opted to stand down. His

  • New grant boosts Castle funds

    CARDIGAN Castle received a major financial boost this week following Welsh culture minister Alan Pugh's announcement that it is to receive a grant of £60,000. The money will be used to carry out emergency repairs to protect Castle Green House from the

  • Book profits to go to charity

    READING material at Cardigan Show was selling like proverbial hot cakes. Not a single show catalogue was available just before lunch and the Show Society's 150th Anniversary Book was also selling well. It was compiled and produced by Betty and Islwyn

  • Anniversary Show is a record breaker!

    CARDIGAN Show broke all attendance records last week, making the 150th anniversary event a bumper success. Threatening rainclouds happily passed over, but they were enough to deter visitors from making for the beach, so Cardigan's 150th Anniversary County