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Thursday, 09 September 2010 22:32 |
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"A village near Prince Charles' Welsh estate has started to market produce based in part on old herbal traditions.
Myddfai in Carmarthenshire won more than £400,000 lottery backing for the regeneration initiative.
It was chosen with five others for the BBC's Village SOS series challenging communities across the UK to come up with novel ideas for new businesses.
It plans to market itself as a destination for well-being breaks and other holidays amid the Brecon Beacons.
Myddfai's products include herbal teas, luxury soaps and plant-based cosmetics.
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Other items now being sold online are branded kitchenware, gifts and crafts.
The range will expand over the coming months and next year the crumbling village hall will be rebuilt to provide both a social hub for residents and a new visitor centre and shop for tourists to the area.
Residents say that Myddfai today is a stark contrast to recent decades, when it had three pubs, two shops, a post office, a smithy and a slaughterhouse." |
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 21:17 |
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Richard Hughes ,"High Wind in Jamaica" lived in Laugharne for 20 years,renting the Castle House. Kingsley Amis wrote "The Old Devils " in Laugharne. Augustus John spent many evenings in Laugharne- and Robert Graves was probably a visitor- a friend of Hughes. Charles Morgan owned Cliff Cottage.
So a few more artists found Laugharne a pleasant place to be- not just Dylan Thomas.
Laugharne is an extraordinary place, Georgian Houses on an estuary with a history of Artist's, many coming to gamble in the C18th well suited to its quiet but unconventional lifestyle. |
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 20:31 |
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Save money and earn cash under latest Government scheme Renewable
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 19:59 |
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Bees in Laugharne-see this from the Transition Network Bees
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