Christmas

Carmarthenshire County Council is reminding residents to check their waste and recycling collection dates over the festive period. Changes have been made to ensure...

What an amazing weekend in Carmarthenshire to kick off the Christmas period with thousands turning out to enjoy activities at Llanelli Christmas Carnival, Carmarthen Christmas Lights switch-on and Llandeilo’s Festival of Senses. The weekend started with Llanelli’s Carnival and Lights Switch-on, Carmarthenshire’s largest annual community event, with an impressive parade throughout the town of over […]

Santa will be making his annual visit to the Llanelli and Mynydd Mawr Railway at Cynheidre on the weekend of 9th and 10th December with train rides for all, a gift for each child and seasonal refreshments for the adults. Tickets are already selling fast and it is highly recommended that you pre-book for these […]

While many of us will be spending Christmas Day tucking into the turkey and enjoying a festive tipple with family and friends, many of the frontline staff on board Wales Air Ambulance will be spending their day working.     For the Wales Air Ambulance, Christmas is very much a “normal day” at work, but […]

Household recycling Scrunch Test! – if wrapping paper or plastic doesn’t unravel straight away when scrunched then it can be put in a blue bag for recycling.  If it unravels then it cannot be recycled and therefore must be put into a black bag. Delivery boxes & packaging – cardboard boxes should be flattened and […]

Mae Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Canolbarth a Gorllewin Cymru yn croesawu tymor yr ŵyl gyda nifer o ddathliadau Nadolig yn ystod mis Rhagfyr. Ymunwch â’r criwiau yn y gorsafoedd canlynol am oriau o hwyl y Nadolig a hyd yn oed cyfle i gwrdd â Siôn Corn! Groto Siôn Corn yng Ngorsaf Dyffryn Aman – Dydd […]

Introducing Max, Gnibbles, Gnorma, Gnicky and Gnarla; the pint sized heroes of Asda’s Christmas campaign who are on a mission to save Christmas     Go big or go gnome! Or if you’re anything like Asda – do both. The supermarket has launched into Christmas with an animated adventure featuring a team of garden gnomes […]

Asda and Asda Foundation pledges almost £1 million to help combat loneliness and isolation in the older generation this festive period through its ‘Don’t be Gnome Alone this Christmas’ campaign Supermarket teams up with national treasure Larry Lamb to reimagine its in-store cafes as ‘Chatty Cafés’ and help spark conversations this Christmas   It’s called […]

Dyfed-Powys Police officers have been spreading festive cheer by collecting presents for children who may otherwise go without this Christmas. Officers based in Llanelli, Ammanford and Carmarthen, took it upon themselves to take part in the annual Mr X Appeal, which aims to ensure that every child in the community experiences the magic of Christmas, […]

SIX thousand essential household items  - free 'Christmas 'gifts' - have been distributed for Llanelli people in need by a leading Labour town councillor and...