West Life celebrated the independent businesses of west Wales in print, from 2012 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2018.

West Life launched in Summer 2012 as the lifestyle magazine for west Wales and Cardigan Bay, covering Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. It came back in 2017, edited from Tenby, with its heart in Tenby, Saundersfoot and south Pembrokeshire. We loved producing both runs and meeting the people along that coast.

Today West Life is an online magazine, and the stories carry on here.

This archive brings the printed issues together, from Summer 2012 to Spring 2018. Choose a cover to see what was inside, or open the full magazine online.

West Life Spring 2018 cover. Trefloyne Manor, a grey stone manor house with tall chimneys and a white-framed orangery, sits below a steep wooded hillside on a sunny summer day, with cars parked beside it and a pink flower blurred in the foreground. Headline: Trefloyne Manor.
Spring 2018

2018

West Life Spring 2018 cover. Trefloyne Manor, a grey stone manor house with tall chimneys and a white-framed orangery, sits below a steep wooded hillside on a sunny summer day, with cars parked beside it and a pink flower blurred in the foreground. Headline: Trefloyne Manor.Spr 2018Trefloyne Manor
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2017

West Life Autumn/Winter 2017 cover. Looking up inside a stone church or cathedral, past rows of carved arches to a richly painted and gilded timber ceiling, with a large organ and its pipes in the centre and a red hanging at the left. Headline: Heavenly.Aut/Win 2017HeavenlyWest Life Summer 2017 cover. The bright, light-filled living room of a holiday home at Pendine Sands, with a cream sofa and patterned cushions, an armchair, a wooden coffee table with books and a glass candle holder, and tall windows looking out over a deck to neighbouring holiday homes under a blue sky. Headline: Park Life!Sum 2017Park Life!West Life Spring 2017 cover. A seafood salad on a blue plate, with prawns, squid rings, mussels, lemon wedges, boiled egg and slices of orange crab stick over green leaves, set on a turquoise wooden table. Headline: Fresh!Spr 2017Fresh!

2013

West Life Spring 2013 cover. Buff-tailed bumblebees and a honeybee crowd onto the round, spiky silver-blue flower head of a globe thistle, with hoverflies in the air around it and a soft green garden behind. Headline: Buzzing!Spr 2013Buzzing!
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2012

West Life Winter 2012/13 cover. Ynyshir Hall, a long white country house with chimneys and a glass porch, seen through trees across a frosty lawn with a wooden bench, autumn woodland behind under a pale blue sky. Headline: Cool.Win 12/13CoolWest Life Summer 2012 cover. A close-up of a white plate piled with mussels in their dark shells, scattered with chopped parsley and pieces of red pepper, from Sosban in Llanelli. Headline: Fresh!Sum 2012Fresh!
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