Cockles, the Waverley and Breeding Goats for Meat

Cockle pickers in the Burry Estuary call for an independent investigation into water quality problems after a sewage spillage from a major outlet near the Gowerton treatment works. The shellfish beds have already been hit by a summer "wipeout" and the cockle fishermen say this latest spillage highlights difficulties which are killing their industry.

The National Botanic Garden of Wales embarks on its biggest project to date. The ambitious plan is to uncover the original Regency landscape created at Middleton Hall, the five hundred acre estate in Carmarthenshire which the garden now occupies. Archaeologists have been busy on site this summer, digging up some of the estate's secrets.

Not all plain sailing - but it's still the world's last seagoing Paddle Steamer and she's been cruising around our shores for 40 years with her towering funnels, timber decks and gleaming varnish. This week the Waverley has been visiting the Welsh coast and was due in at Llandudno where our excited reporter, Huw Jenkins joined the other passengers on the pier for what he hoped would be a nostalgic trip

and breeding goats for meat on less favourable land and in challenging Welsh weather conditions. Ella Hammel is originally from Germany but has begun her business, Goats 'n Roses, breeding Boar Goats for meat on her smallholding at Pinged in Carmarthenshire.