Partly due to devaluation and the effects of the last budget, the cost of civil engineering works for the new high level bridge over the Haven had risen sharply by nearly £400,000 in four months. After being given these facts, Pembrokeshire County Council unanimously agreed to go ahead with the project. Estimated total net cost of the scheme was then £3,020.825.

The barefoot contessa of the pop world, Sandie Shaw, had been staying at Tenby’s Imperial Hotel. She was in West Wales filming scenes for her new BBC television series.

Parents in Narberth were ‘seething with anger’ over the method of selecting children for entry to grammar schools, members of Pembrokeshire County Council were told. Clr. Aaron Edwards, of Narberth, a former headteacher, said that only three out of 16 children had been selected to go onto grammar school.

The captain of the Royal Naval ship, HMS Tenby, Commander Robin I. T. Hogg, told the Mayor of Tenby that he would do everything possible to arrange for the ship to visit the town in 1969 - investiture year.

A girl athlete from Greenhill School, Tenby, Janet Francis, set a new Welsh middle school record.Competing for Pembrokshire in the Welsh secondary schools national championships at Cwmbran, Janet threw the discus 96-feet four inches.

Despite interruption by the weather, Narberth Secondary School completed their annual sports. House winners were Amber. Victor ludorum was David Phillips and victrix ludorum was Sandra Skyrme.

Fourteen-year-old Miss Ruth Williams, of Kesteven Court, Carew, was selected as Carew carnival queen. Her attendants were Misses Christine Jones, Mary John, Janet Davies, Veronica John, Carol Waters, Wendy Hicks and Colette Evans.

Showing at the South Beach: The Happiest Millionaire. At the Royal Playhouse: Doctor Dolittle.