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The poular Ocean Lab cafe is now serving alcohol but has no intention of turning into a pub or a bar Goodwicks Ocean Lab has no intention of becoming a seafront pub, but has applied for and been granted an alcohol licence in order to increase its offer. As reported in the Western Telegraph, the Ocean Lab café applied to Pembrokeshire County Council to serve alcohol from 11am to 11pm seven days a week. However, owner Judith Cresswell has said that she does not intend to stay open until 1...

HAV Design Wins Deal to Design Zero Emission Ferries Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. The two ferries on the Stranda-Liabygda route. Photo: HAV Design AS HAV Design signed a contract for two new battery-powered ferries, making them the thirteenth and fourteenth ferry designs with zero-emission technology from the company. The two new  HAV 934 ferries will operate on the Stranda-Liabygda and Eidsdal-Linge routes with a capacity of 80 cars and 249 passengers. They will be built at the Turkish shi...

YOU might think youve had one too many Saturday night when come Sunday morning you see 50 bikers dressed as Evel Knievel come roaring past your door. That would have been the conundrum facing some, perhaps delicate, residents of Pembrokeshire on the morning of Sunday, May 30, when Cymru Knievels came roaring through the county as part of their tenth annual charity ride, all in the aid of raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Western Telegraph got all the photos from the bikers extraor...

How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action April 26, 2021, 9:01 am Getty/Mario Tama A woman rides on a tour boat as a container ship is offloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Terminal Island, California, March 2020. Sam Hananel Ari Drennen Introduction and summary Now is the time to invest in the United States’ coastal communities and ocean. Historically, the ocean has been central to the U.S. conception of infrastructure; early cities were built in naturally sheltered...

Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies to host an Earth Day 2021 keynote discussion. This event is part of the UAA Books of the Year program and supports the theme of building community resilience. Join keynote speaker, marine biologist, policy expert and writer Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Sumudu Atapattu, the director of Research Centers and senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School for a discussion of Johnsons book, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and So...

GOODWICKS Ocean Lab could soon be serving alcohol along with food and soft drinks, if an application to Pembrokeshire County Council goes smoothly. Proprietors of the café at the popular seafront attraction, Judith and Allan Cresswell, are applying to serve alcoholic drinks along with hot and cold soft beverages. The application to the councils licensing committee states that the venue would like to serve alcohol from 11am to 11pm seven days a week. The Ocean Lab is temporarily closed ...

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Local organisations have expressed their delight at the success of a crowdfunding campaign to improve in Fishguard and Goodwick.

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson will join in a conversation with journalist Alex Blumberg on the final day of the Pulitzer Centers 2021 Environment (Re)Defined conference. Johnson will bring her expertise as a marine biologist, policy expert, and leader of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for coastal cities, to explore a range of critical environmental issues. Among her achievements, Johnson led the Caribbean’s first successful island-wide ocean zoning effort, resulting in the protection of one-third o...

A fundraising appeal for Fishguard and Goodwick has raised more than £11,000 in the first week A FUNDRAISING appeal for Fishguard and Goodwick, supported by Golden Globe nominee, actor Matthew Rhys, has soared to more than £11,000 in the first week. The campaign aims to raise £30,000 via the Crowdfunder platform, which will be shared among three projects. The first is to help buy a replacement for the much-loved but recently-retired helter-skelter slide outside the Ocean Lab on the Par...