THESE are the headlines making the paper the week beginning August 7,1986.

Smallholders in the Gwenlais Valley, Carmel, have challenged Dyfed County Council to justify publicily a 40-year-old planning consent which has condemmed a community, Vandals caused hundreds of pounds of damage to the grandstand at Amman United rugby club.

Extra coal has been given to Cwmaman residents from Betws to Abernant Colleries.

Pollution-fighting fishermen in the Ammanford area want to cut the cost of their sport because they believe they are subsidising anglers who fish the better rivers. They are complaining that the price of licensing for all rivers is the same.

Llandovery's unemployment benefit office is to close down on the October 6.

Fifteen thousand litres of red diseal worth £2144 was stolen from a storage tant at the Emlyn tip, Penygroes. The diseal belonged to Wright Contractors Ltd.