Tenby's world-famous seafront looks like a gap- toothed smile with the hole where the Royal Gatehouse Hotel once stood. It's not the first time that images of damage to Tenby have been beamed across Wales - think of the pictures of the oil lapping the North Beach after the Sea Empress disaster. But I'm sure that just like then, Tenby will recover. It's been a hard Easter for many traders and they are struggling to get deliveries, let alone customers. But the sooner the road access can be opened up again the better. More than ever we need to buy local this summer and support Tenby traders. We need to get the message out there that Tenby is open for business as usual.
Fascinating morning
I spent a fascinating morning hosting a visit by Heritage Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas to Carew Cheriton Control Tower. The volunteers have done a fantastic job recreating the tower so that it's just as it was in the days when up to 150 aircraft were based there. If you haven't been I'd highly recommend a visit. It was being used as cow shed when the group took it on and their attention to detail was unwavering. They took a tiny scrape of the green paint left on the walls and sent it off to be matched exactly. The result is very atmospheric and it's easy to imagine how life was at the base where 100 airmen lost their lives. The minister was there because the Welsh Assembly Government has granted the group £132,000 to buy the surrounding land on which they hope to build a hangar to house restored aircraft and a propeller-shaped education and visitor centre. The finished attraction (which needs £1.2 million to become reality) will be called 'Wings over Pembrokeshire' and will tell the story of all 11 wartime airfields in the county.
ANGELA BURNS AM