The countdown is over for Llanelli – as Eisteddfod fever hits the town.

The Llanelli Star has already brought out a special publication to mark its return to the town for the first time since 1962.

And now the paper is devoting many of its pages to coverage of the prestigious historic event with feature pull-outs, news and photos.

Staff from the South Wales Evening Post and the Star will be working from an on-site newsroom to provide four pages of festival coverage every day for the whole of this week.

Star editor Robert Lloyd said: “The place goes electric for a week – it’s like Christmas!”

The event is a celebration for the whole of Wales and up to 200,000 visitors are expected with around 25,000 anticipated on the peak days of Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Sion Donovan, a student at Jesus College, Oxford, has been co-ordinating Eisteddfod news during his summer work placement and will be part of the special news team.

Robert said: “We’ve established a newsroom on site which has never been done before.

“This has been done together with BT and will give people the chance to see us news gathering and putting pages together every day and to see the finished product.”

This is all in addition to the 28-page Croeso – Welsh for ‘welcome’ – special, which is now on sale, with 10,000 copies printed.

The Welsh dragon is already flying from every corner of the town as homes, schools and businesses put out the bunting to mark the festival.

Six sizes of flags are on sale as well as hundreds of yards of bunting – all selling well, according to traders.

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