Record breaking 80 awards for South Caernarfon Creameries as cheese and butter
Wales’ oldest dairy farming co-operative is celebrating a record scoop of 80 awards after impressing judges with their expanding range of innovative Welsh-made cheeses and butter made with Welsh milk. Foodie experts across the UK awarded twenty gold awards to South...
Stage star Corey celebrates new rise to fame with social care award
A musical theatre performer who worked as a TV extra to help fund his studies and now trains health carers has won a national award – at the age of just 23. Corey Edwards, who appeared in the BBC’s popular drama series Ordinary Lies as an extra during his studies at...
North Wales’s most haunted –the Salusbury Arms and its seven ghosts
A village inn in the Vale of Clwyd claims to be the most haunted pub in North Wales after being home to seven ghosts. An exorcism a few years ago whittled that down to three but the Salusbury Arms in Tremeirchion, which features in the Domesday Book, is still...
Lexus UX road test by Steve Rogers
This is going to sound ridiculous but I lost my rag with the car's voice control. Yes, it is a computer and cannot answer back but after numerous attempts to change the radio station - the answer was that it couldn't find the street - I shouted 'forget it' followed by...
NHS boss who fights for training equality for all care workers enjoys awards “double gold”
A senior NHS official from Newport who champions the need for private care home staff to have the same level of skills and training as those in the public sector has scored a stunning double success in major national awards. In her high-profile job as Divisional Nurse...
Company bosses urged to join the war against climate change
Company bosses in Wrexham are being urged to reduce their use of packaging and plastic waste in the war against climate change. The plea came from Wrexham AM Lesley Griffiths, who is also the Welsh Government Minister for the Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, at...
Truck driver whose dad is battling prostate cancer joins facial ‘hair raising’ charity challenge
A TRUCK driver whose dad is battling prostate cancer has been part of a team bristling with enthusiasm about a fund-raising drive to raise awareness of men’s health. An eight-strong group from McCarthy Distribution put their razors away and took part in Movember, an...
Wrexham IT firm beds in with Llay company set to expand further in Irish dairy farm market
A WREXHAM IT firm is helping an animal bedding company expand into the Irish dairy market following a £1 million investment. Wrexham Industrial Estate-based Rawson IT Services has won the contract to provide a managed IT service for Platts Animal Bedding, based in...
Special award for narrowboat legend Peter
A narrowboat legend was honoured at a glittering ceremony to celebrate a record year in the North Wales tourism industry. Over the years Peter Jones, proprietor of Jones the Boats, has ferried tens of thousands of passengers over the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct which is a...
Care home residents make music with revolutionary device
A group of care home residents are helping to test a revolutionary new high tech instrument that helps disabled people make music. The device has been trialled at the Pendine Park care organisation who are working with Europe’s largest industrial manufacturing...