MARCH

CEREDIGION MP Mark Williams called for St David’s Day to be made a national holiday in honour of the nation’s patron saint.

A NEWCASTLE Emlyn family was up in arms at the amount of dog mess on the pavements and around the castle in the town. Dog lover Sadie Brown and her six-year-old twins Riley and Noah had enough of dodging the dog dirt.

BUDGENS supermarket at the bottom of Quay Street, Cardigan, closed its doors for the final time as the store pulled out of the town.

PENPARC YFC handed over a cheque for a whopping £13,000 to Wales Air Ambulance. It had raised the money the previous year with a four-day vintage tractor run from Fishguard to Holyhead in Anglesey – the largest fund-raising event in the club’s 72-year history.

ABERTEIFI Embroidery Club spent 18-months creating a stunning heirloom queen-sized quilt to be raffled on Barley Saturday in aid of the Oxygen Therapy Centre at Cardigan.

LOCALS at The Lamb Inn at Cardigan got a huge shock when Florida-based Sally Rowley-Williams, the winning owner of the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham a few days earlier, dropped in with the solid silver trophy estimated to be worth in excess of £200,000.

TRADERS in Newcastle Emlyn were demanding the reopening of the public toilets near the Mart, claiming its closure by Carmarthenshire County Council was costing them business.

AROUND 160 people took part in a giant conga around Cardigan to raise money for Comic Relief, led by town mayor Cllr Clive Davies. (pic)