Police boss vows to crack down on drugs gangs and child sex abuse
A police boss has vowed to crack down on drugs gangs and child sexual exploitation after his proposed 38p a week rise in the cost of policing was approved. Among the other priorities revealed by North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones are tackling...
Care home says goodbye to “very own Mary Berry”
A care home has said a fond farewell to their “very own Mary Berry”. Great grandmother Carol Roberts is packing away her rolling pins and hanging up her pots and pans after 32 years’ service at Pendine Park’s Hillbury House Care Home in Wrexham. But Carol admits...
Retired HGV driver Roy, 92, celebrates his silver wedding anniversary in style
A 92-year-old HGV driver who met his wife across a Post Office counter is celebrating his silver wedding anniversary in style. Roy Judge and his wife Vivien, 66, joined party-goers at a glamorous Tea and Tiara event at the Tabernacle venue in Llandudno. The event was...
Kia ProCeed launch report by Steve Rogers
KIA has opened its 2019 campaign with a real bobby dazzler. Meet the new ProCeed, the range topper that has taken Ceed in a whole new direction with a bold shooting brake design. Until now ProCeed, yes it still has the silly name, has been a three-door hatch. That...
MP unveils £250,000 specialist dementia unit in Brynmawr
A pioneering care organisation has invested £250.000 in building a state-of-the art dementia wing, creating up to 10 new jobs. Blaenau Gwent MP Nick Smith officially opened Tŷ’r Brenin at Plasgeller Care Home in Brynmawr, toasting the completion of an extensive...
Massive tidal lagoon can fill Wylfa’s jobs and energy gap
A North Wales tidal lagoon could fill the energy and jobs gaps left by the mothballing of the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant on Anglesey. The chairman of North Wales Tidal Energy (NWTE), Henry Dixon, will this week tell business leaders in Wrexham that the giant...
Iconic Welsh trailer firm keeps Bruce “on the ground” in tropical St Helena
A transport boss is flying the flag of Europe’s leading trailer firm on one of the world’s most remote inhabited islands. Business has been booming for Bruce Salt since he shipped his first Ifor Williams TT105 tipper trailer to Saint Helena Island in the South...
Cost of policing due to increase by 38p a week for average household
A police boss has unveiled plans for a 38p-a-week increase in the cost of policing in North Wales – less than the price of a packet of chewing gum. North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones says the 7.74 per cent rise is needed to recruit 34 extra officers...
Why don’t you stay just a little bit longer in beautiful North East Wales
A brand new tourism project aimed at boosting the rural economy by encouraging visitors to one of Wales’s most beautiful regions to make more of their stays has been launched in North East Wales. Stay, Eat, Do is intended to provide packages combining accommodation,...
Audience will lap up music from wacky Xbox orchestra
A wacky orchestra that uses computers and Xbox game controllers to make music will be taking centre stage at a top festival. The Swansea Laptop Orchestra are promising an “exciting and stimulating” evening at the Bangor Music Festival which gets under way at the...
