Shorn of membership of the Labour Party he had served for 32 years, Pembrokeshire’s headline-hitting MP, Mr. Desmond Donnelly, was confident he could hold his seat as an Independent. The 47-year-old politician, who had represented the county at Westminster for the past 18 years, was expelled by the party’s national executive after a two-hour meeting. His expulsion was no more a shock to his constituents than to the MP himself.

The Department of Education and Science informed Pembrokeshire Education Committee that the Secretary of State had approved the scheme for a running track at Haverfordwest Secondary School.

The present headteacher of Narberth Church School, Mr. W. G. Cole, was appointed head of Llawhaden Voluntary School.

Tenby United’s opponents in the final of the Pembrokshire Knock-Out Cup would be Haverfordwest.

Tenby’s Roman Catholic priest, Father S. J. Vince, was leaving to take over as parish priest at Connah’s Quay, Flintshire.

Rev. Terence Williams, of Ebbw Vale, accepted a call from Tabernacle Congregational Chapel, Narberth, to become their minister.

Reporting on a 20 per cent increase in crime in Pembrokeshire in 1967 and a fall in the general detection rate of four per cent, the Chief Constable, Mr. Alan Goodson, told the county’s police committee: “All the indications are that the tempo of life, generally in Pembrokeshire, is annually quickening.”

Well-known Tenby businessman, Mr. Kingsley Batchelor, and Mrs. Gwyneth Richards, also of Tenby, were married at Tenby Methodist Church.

New president of Tenby Chamber of Trade was a well-known local grocer, Mr. David R. Phelps, of Westway Stores, The Green.

A well-known Tenby man, Mr. William James Owen Morse, was appointed temporary headteacher of Templeton County Primary School.

Showing at the South Beach: The War Wagon.