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Porthcawl Mayor

Making: Porthcawl Mayor, councillor Tracy Hill and Deputy Mayor Mark Chegwin were officially appointed to their official positions last Thursday on ‘Zoom’.

It went very well but it lost something in the execution – there was no exchanging of chains which is always the part that you remember most.

Brian Jones, the immediate past Mayor took his chain off, and then the chain went out of sight.

At that point I had visions of some one dashing over to Tracy’s house and suddenly the mayoral chaim appearing on Tracy’s neck – but no such luck.

National Memorial to Those Who Died in Pandemic: I notice that one national newspaper has put its full weight behind the building of such a memorial in St Paul’s in London.

The design is impressive and if anyone out there wants to donate towards the cost, then they do so by contacting crowdfunder.co.uk/ rememberme

I do sometimes wonder