OCTOBER

THERE was stunned disbelief in Cardigan following the death of 32-year-old St Dogmaels man Steffan Thomas, who was knocked down on the outskirts of town in the early hours of a Sunday morning.

THE community scheme to buy the Tafarn Sinc pub was on the verge of success after it was revealed more than £230,000 had so far been raised to purchase the iconic Pembrokeshire boozer.

THE future of Cardigan Playscheme and After School Club hung in the balance with the existing committee due to step down. However, following an appeal, new members came forward to keep it going.

CARDIGAN’S long-awaited new integrated health care centre was set to be given the go-ahead with news that the Welsh Government had agreed to include the £22m project in its draft budget.

THE Newport Tourist Information Centre was earmarked for closure by Pembrokeshire Coast National park Authority despite determined opposition to the move from villagers.

WEST Wales Credit Union, covering 1,700 members throughout Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, went into administration. Members were told their money would be safeguarded by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

CARDIGAN’S new library and customer service building at Morgan Street was officially opened.

CARDIGAN Foodbank reported an ‘unprecedented’ surge in demand, with nearly 600 people using the Quay Street facility between April and August – a rise of 219 people from the previous year.

THE award-winning LLwynhelyg Farm Shop announced it was to close as husband and wife team Teifi and Jenny Davies turned their attention to the family farm after 34 years.

OUTRAGE greeted a decision to put tickets on part of a funeral cortege for parking outside a Cardigan chapel where mourners were attending a funeral.

A CARDIGAN family launched a £40,000 appeal for a life-changing operation and treatment for their four-year-old son. Alistair Barros Pearera and Jenny Griffiths hoped to raise the cash for son Riley, dubbed ‘miracle baby’ when he was born 16 weeks premature in April 2-013.

A LETTER posted back in 1971 finally reached its intended recipient – Father Seamus Cunnane – when it dropped on his Cardigan doorstep nearly 46 years after it was posted.

A FAMILY of six were lucky to escape with their lives after going for a dip in the sea at Poppit Sands during the height of Storm Ophelia. Winds of 80mph were lashing the coast and an RNLI spokesman branded their action as ‘madness’.

AWARD-winning Blaenffos micro-bakery Crwst announced plans to open a new bakery/restaurant/coffe shop in Cardigan at the Siop y Cardi site.

TRIBUTES were paid to Tivyside ‘law icon’ John Nicholl, from Cardigan, who died aged 72.

PUB landlord Andrew Giles, from the Pelican Inn, Newcastle Emlyn, was doing his bit to save the planet as he turned the boozer into a plastic-free zone.

A SECOND tragedy struck the village of St Dogmaels in a matter of weeks with the death of 17-year-old Mikey Nicholas, whose body was found on the banks of the River Teifi.

A BIG cat was on the loose in Ceredigion after Lilith the lynx escaped from the Animalarium at Borth.

THE Bathhouse Road site in Cardigan – once earmarked for a Sainsbury’s supermarket – was put back on the market with the hope of attracting fresh development and jobs.