Chainsaw sculptor creates a magnificent menagerie
A former art student who discovered a talent for chainsaw sculpture has created a magnificent menagerie of woodland creatures The collection of giant squirrels, owls and hawks carved by Paul Morris now adorn the grounds of the Pendine Park Care Organisation in the...
Steph fulfils lifelong ambition to walk Great Wall of China and raises £2,500 for hospice
A finance firm worker from has fulfilled a lifelong ambition to walk along the Great Wall of China raising a whopping £2,500 for a Wrexham hospice. Steph Edwards, who is a paraplanner for Hadlow Edwards Wealth Management Ltd, based at the former Wrexham Lager brewery...
Seat Leon ST road test by Steve Rogers
ESTATE cars aren't meant to be fun...or are they? The days of rattley old boxes bought by people who needed to haul tea chests and sideboards - think they were mainly antique dealers - have been confined to history, in fact I can pinpoint the very year the estate car...
Drugs and homelessness kill 60 people in six years in Wrexham
Drugs and homelessness have claimed the lives of 60 people in Wrexham over the past six years. The grim death toll - equivalent to 10 fatalities a year - is marked on a Memory Tree at a hostel run by a homeless charity in the town And the memorial at The Wallich’s Tŷ...
Neighbours lend a hand as family bakery gears up for expansion
A family-run business is gearing up for the opening of their second bakery with the creation of 20 new jobs in Denbigh in the New Year. The ovens on Henllan Bakery’s new cake and biscuit making facility on Denbigh’s Colomendy Industrial Estate will fire up in January...
Top festival comes of age with boomwhackers and 21 world premieres
A remarkable 21 world premieres will be taking place at top musical festival in North Wales. The new works will be among the highlights of the critically-acclaimed Bangor Music Festival which gets under way at the city’s Pontio centre on Friday, February 8. According...
Gwern and Lowri earn pop star status as Deian a Loli mania sweeps Wales
Two child actors who play mischievous twins with secret super powers in a hit TV show are getting used to “pop star status” with their legion of fans across Wales. Gwern Jones,11, from Llanrug, near Caernarfon and Lowri Jarman,10, from Llanuwchllyn, near Bala, have...
Andrew honoured for going the extra smile
Former bingo caller Andrew Roberts has a truly winning smile. Andrew, 33, from Rhostrefor, in Gwynedd, has been named as a champion smiler at the Pendine Park Care organisation. His infectious grin and cheerful nature lights up the lives of residents and colleagues at...
High five for bakery’s pancakes and crumpets at Waitrose
A bakery’s products are going down so well with customers at high-end supermarket chain Waitrose that they have ordered five more from them to sell across the UK. The deal is a massive boost to the Wrexham-based Village Bakery who started out supplying just one...
Therapists and other businesses invited to apply for a share of £6.2m funding to help deliver pioneering RCS Wales’ in work support scheme
LOCAL therapists and other businesses are being invited to apply for a share of £6.2m funding to help combat work sickness absence across Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire and Gwynedd. Pioneering social enterprise Rhyl City Strategy (RCS Wales) is inviting providers of...
