TWO schoolboys have been reprimanded after apparently exploding a home-made bomb created from instructions downloaded from the internet. Residents in the village of Pontyates, between Carmarthen and Llanelli, reportedly heard a loud explosion in the early hours of the morning one day last week.

By Rhodri Clark It is the town with two trains a day. But with one at 1am and the nearest city 90 minutes' drive away, Fishguard residents have longed for a better rail service.

Daisy Pugh died in June 2005, at the age of 85, from stomach cancer. A year later her family won a retrospective payment for the continuing care fees Mrs Pugh had been charged between October 2002 and June 2005, amounting to pounds 61,000.

THE family of an 11-year-old girl found dead in a pond paid tribute yesterday to a daughter who "always had a happy face". Kirsty Leigh Thomas was discovered in the gardens of a house in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, on Sunday evening.

By Steve Dube Politicians in West Wales met local farmers yesterday in a bid to save jobs at a cheese factory. The farmers have threatened to stop supplying Dansco Cheese at Newcastle Emlyn because of delayed payments.