Police boss launches pioneering scheme to steer offenders away from life of crime
A pioneering scheme to steer low-level offenders including people caught with drugs for personal use away from a life of crime has been launched. After receiving rigorous training, nine ‘navigators’ have now started working with suitable candidates who end up at one...
Couple make flower business blossom
Business is blossoming for a busy florist which now numbers Strictly champ Stacey Dooley among its customers. Blooming Gorgeous opened in Rhuddlan less than two years ago but already they’ve had to move to bigger premises in Prestatyn to cope with demand. It’s been a...
Kind-hearted team pack shoeboxes with Christmas joy
Kind-hearted workers from a criminal record checks company have been helping to pack a record 60,000 shoeboxes taking the magic of Christmas to poverty-stricken children around the world. Ten members of staff from Disclosure Services in Wrexham volunteered to lend a...
Double celebrations for dedicated social worker Hannah
A newly-qualified social worker who was inspired to make a difference after helping to care for her cousin has become the toast of the care industry – after scooping two national awards on the same night. Hannah Carpanini, who has worked for Monmouthshire County...
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...
