Thursday, 9th September 2010

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Beefy bovine Trigger is a whopper!

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Playful puppies do it for some, it takes cute kittens for others, but only one of Britain’s biggest loads of bull was enough to win the heart of a Kington man with a bent for bovines.

Pupils make the grade at A-level

Powys pupils have once again achieved excellent A-Level results in the WJEC examinations.

‘Royalty’ to star at Victorian festival

The 29th Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival will officially open tomorrow (Saturday) with nine days of entertainment and activities, which will take young and young-at-heart back to a bygone age.

A-Level students’ record year

A-Level students in south Shropshire received those vital exam results yesterday.
Hundreds of young people were delighted to get the important grades to get them into university whilst others, not quite making the grade, were desperately logging on to the UCAS website to find an alternative place.
This year saw the introduction of a new A* grade, […]

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Clapped out - fault silences bells

Oh come you home of Sunday, when Ludlow streets are still. And Ludlow bells are calling, To farm and lane and mill.

Jane celebrates floral victories

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A florist from Bishop’s Castle is celebrating this week after bagging her biggest ever haul of trophies at this year’s Shrewsbury Flower Show.
Jane Pugh, who runs Jane’s Petal And Flowers on the High Street, said she was “over the moon” to scoop an array of awards after one of the busiest weeks of her life.
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Chance to join ‘green’ homes tour

Stretton Climate Care has a new idea – instead of visiting other folk’s gardens, have a tour of their ‘green’ homes.

Firm’s promise on internet issues

A complaint about broadband speed from an Orange customer in Ludlow has been received sympathetically by the company after the Journal took up the case.

Paedophile jailed for four years

A peeping-tom paedophile who filmed a young Knighton girl through her bedroom window, and had a stash of 127,000 indecent images of children, is back behind bars.

Kirsty fights for CARAD

Brecon and Radnor AM Kirsty Williams has lent her support to the campaign to reverse the decision to cut funding for CARAD (Community Arts Rhayader and District).