38 Community Coast path repairs completed
Authority Warden Teams have been working to repair and improve the path while carrying out their usual maintenance and cutting work across the 186-mile route.
Pembrokeshire Coast Path
National Trail Officer Dave MacLachlan said: “Many of the repairs were finished in time for the start of last year’s busy summer season, but the unprecedented spread and scale of the damage meant that some of work had to be completed later. The National Park Authority’s Warden Teams must be commended for completing these repairs as quickly as possible, with close communication with coastal landowners.”
Some of the more complex
Coast path near Aberbach: Work now complete. PEMBROKESHIRE COAST
NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY has completed more than £70,000 repairs on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path National Trail in the 12 months, in the wake of the damage caused by last year’s severe storms. The combination of extreme weather and high tides washed away bridges, undermined steps and meant
some parts of the Coast Path had to be resurfaced or realigned.
Pembrokeshire Coast National
Park Authority ordinarily maintains the Path with funding from Natural Resources Wales, but the Welsh Government made additional funds available to repair storm damage along the 870-mile Wales Coast Path. Since then, the National Park
repairs required the use of specialists such as engineering geologists, who provided additional insight into cliff stability. Overall the repairs in carried out by the Authority amounted to more than £70,000 with the majority of funding coming from grant aid and some funding support from landowners. Although these repairs are now complete, maintaining the Coast Path is a year-round task. Recently a short stretch of the path had to be moved further in-land following a small cliff fall at Mill Bay, near St Ann’s Head. Walkers are asked to report any new falls or concerns which they identify over the next few months.
Tracy plans to raise £4,000 TRACY BEYNON, 37, from
Tenby will be celebrating her 38th birthday by shaving off her hair. Money raised will go to medical research charity Arthritis Research UK and will help fund vital research into the debilitating condition Tracy lives with on a daily basis. Tracy was diagnosed with
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) at the age of 31. At that time she couldn’t understand that she had been diagnosed with a condition which she thought only old people had. She felt useless and even needed to move herself and her young son to live in her parent’s home as she simply could not do anything for herself. Tracy was put onto a cocktail of
drugs to attack the disease, but RA is different for each patient and it was a case of trial and error. After 6 months her rheumatology team found the correct mix of drugs and Tracy’s RA improved, she even went into remission. For a long while she was doing well but then her medication began to stop working, so her rheumatologist worked with her to find that careful mix that would work for Tracy once again. Thankfully, Tracy’s treatment is currently going well. So much so, that she has decided to give something back and plans to raise £4,000 by the time she is 40 years of age, for the charity close to heart, Arthritis Research UK. Tracy first fundraising event
takes place on her 38th birthday, Friday February 6. She will
be
shaving off her hair after 9.30pm at The Buccaneer Inn, St Julian Street, Tenby SA70 7AS. All are welcome. Arthritis Research UK regional
fundraising manager Anna-Marie Jones says: “Arthritis is the biggest cause of pain and disability in the UK, with one in six people of all ages affected by this debilitating condition. I encourage everyone in the area to go along, enjoy the event and support Tracy to help raise funds for such a worthwhile cause.” If you’d like to help Tracy reach her fundraising goal, you can also log on to her fundraising page and donate to:
www.justgiving.com/ Tracys4Kby40Challenge
Pre-election public meetings launched WITH less than 100 days to go
until the General Election, Simon Hart MP has invited every voter in his constituency to come and meet him.
He is running a series of informal public meetings across his Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire constituency
so that people can
give him a grilling on any topic of their choice: “I have already held 30
meetings in pubs in villages all over Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire over the past four years and I wanted to give anyone who wasn’t able attend those another chance to come and quiz me,” he said. “If the pub politics sessions are anything to go by then anything and everything will come up from potholes to policing. Nothing is off-limits and it’s a chance for people to make their
point and hold me to account.” The public meetings will be held at 7.30pm at: • Quins RFC, Carmarthen on February 12
• Whitland Memorial Hall on February 26
• Pater Hall, Pembroke Dock on March 5
• De Valence Pavilion, Tenby on March 19
New phones: PC 385 Ben Ashton, PC 76 Leah Evans, PC 376 Phil Westbury and PC 905 Eleri Edwards with their mobile digital policing devices. SOME 500 frontline police
officers have been issued with smart phones, which allow them to carry out the majority of their everyday policing duties while out on patrol, Dyfed-Powys Police have announced.
This number will rise to 650 by
April. The Samsung Galaxy Notebook 3 handheld devices have replaced the traditional pocket notebook and can be used for a range of duties including crime recording, police checks, road traffic collision recording and on-street cannabis warnings. PC Ben Ashton, a roads policing
officer in Carmarthenshire and mobile digital policing trainer, said: “The new device is completely
changing the
way frontline police officers conduct their business. Everything can be done while we are out and about allowing us to provide a much more visible policing presence on the streets. “There is a lot less time-consuming paperwork, less need to go back to the police station to complete certain tasks and a far more streamlined process in completion and progression of witness statements, crime reports and forms.” The introduction
of handheld devices to the force is part of the
strategy to be completely digital by 2016.
Newly recruited police officers
are currently receiving training on the devices and will be the first wave of officers to never use the traditional pocket notebook in their police career. Catherine Davies, Mobile Digital
Policing Project Manager, said: “This is a massive cultural change for Dyfed Powys Police and one that has been met positively by the vast majority of police officers who have received the devices.
“Mobile Digital Policing will
enable the Force to save money at a time where every penny counts and reduce administration time at police stations for our frontline officers allowing them to spend more time out in their communities where they are needed most. “The public often ask for a stronger
police presence in their communities and the use of this new technology will allow this to happen.” Planned future developments of
Mobile Digital Policing include use of the devices for firearms applications, missing person searches and Adult Community Resolutions
for crime and anti-social behaviour.
57% of older people stay home to avoid icy pavements
ICY pavements are the main
worry which discourages older people from walking outside, pedestrian campaign charity Living Streets has said (Jan 28). In a recent
commissioned by Living
YouGov poll Streets,
57 per cent of people aged 65 and over said icy pavements discouraged them from walking outside the most, above potholes, broken pavements or people driving too quickly. With arctic temperatures and snow forecast for most of the UK in the next few days, the needs of older and more vulnerable pedestrians must be a priority for local authorities and the public, says the charity.
Living Streets’ Chief Executive,
Joe Irvin, said: “Not being able to get out and about can be extremely isolating for older people, so ensuring key routes to shops and essential services are well-gritted is vital. “We know that being about to
get out and about on foot safely is extremely important to older people, for their health and wellbeing and for social reasons. This is especially so in winter
weather conditions.
We know local councils are under budgetary pressure, but many provide grit bins and are joining our call to encourage the public to pledge to be Snow Angels, to clear snowy and icy pathways and look out for our more vulnerable neighbours.”
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THE PEMBROKESHIRE HERALD FRIDAY JANUARY 30 2015
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