THESE are some of the stories which made the headlines in the South Wales Guardian in the week ending Thursday, July 14, 1983.

Carmarthen District Council put forward plans to build small factories at Gorslas. Finance for the project was from the new urban aid grant scheme.

AN HMI report on Amman Valley Comprehensive School said the school is highly successful in computer studies, art and design but that too much emphasis is put on "chalk and talk' in the humanities department.

Work started on removing colliery waste from land adjoining Meadows Road, Cross Hands prior to the new by-pass being constructed.

Dinefwr Borough Council formally objected to the Coal Board's proposals for a new opencast mine at Garnant.

Llandovery Town cricket team lost their annual match against Llandovery College Old Boys.

Ammanford Town Council will invite traders to a meeting they hope will result in the town being lit up next Christmas.

Residents waiting for a bus opposite Ammanford's Parcyrhun Post Office have to walk into the middle of the road to let the driver know they are there, because of seven-foot 'pea shooters' growing beside the shelter.

Dog mess means that the Wind Street entrance to Ammanford Park often resembles a farmyard, town councillors were told.

A police raid on a Llandeilo pub was described by a defendant as being 'like the SAS assault on the Iranian embassy'.