THIS past year has probably been the toughest that anyone can remember. Sickness, death, lockdown and everyone being deprived of some of the most basic things that contribute to an ordinary, happy life have become the new normal. Less than 18 months ago, if you’d asked people what luxuries they were dreaming of they would have said: ‘winning the lottery’; ‘a world cruise’; ‘a Ferrari’. Who would have thought that by 2021 a walk on the beach; a hug; a cup of coffee with friends would be enough to satisfy those wishes? For journalists, the past year has felt like a relentless treadmill of writing about death and destruction – and yet that’s not the case at all.
WORK has begun this week on transforming an eyesore site that has stood neglected at the gateway to Narberth for over a dozen years Two former pupils of the town’s old primary school are behind the scheme to create housing, a new home for Narberth’s community library, a shop and a food and drink outlet in the building, which will retain its Victorian frontage. Local butcher Andrew Rees and construction company owner Charles Salmon, who now lives in Lincoln, are Pembrokeshire County Council’s preferred developers of the site in Moorfield Road and gained planning permission for their scheme last year.