BMW X3 Road test by Steve Rogers
MY BMW loving friend has got himself into a fix. David has been driving his 420d for nearly a year and although he loves it he struggles to get in and out. I should say David is nudging 80 and has had a new hip - 60 years prancing around a badminton court has taken...
Steve Rogers reviews the new Peugeot 508
Has Peugeot finally found a big saloon winner? Steve Rogers gives his verdict. IT'S bold and beautiful so is this the car that can crack the saloon car market for Peugeot. Not that many of us are buying big saloons any more, and those that do tend to go up market for...
Final poppy salute to war hero Bill
A group of artistic care home residents have come up with a touching tribute to Second World War hero Bill Evans by making cascades of giant poppies in his memory. Bill, 93, who fought his way through Europe and helped liberate Brussels, died on Monday, October 15,...
Growing distribution firm builds new £3m HQ and warehouse
A growing distribution firm is building a new £3 million headquarters and warehouse which will more than double its capacity and create 12 new jobs. Mike McCarthy, Managing Director of McCarthy Distribution, based on Wrexham Industrial Estate, has launched the...
How businesses find that a container base is secure, safe and cheap
A North Wales-based company at the forefront of the boom in containerised self-storage is seeing a boom in businesses using its steel shipping containers for their security, flexibility and value for money. Lock Stock Self Storage, founded in Denbigh in 1998 by...
Hafod hit the heights at the UK’s renewable energy ‘Oscars’
A top North Wales green energy company has been named in the UK’s top three renewable heating installers at the industry’s annual national awards. Denbigh-based Hafod Renewables were presented with their award by Sir Lenny Henry at the Energy Efficiency Awards, the...
Head of long-established legal firm is top law officer for Clwyd
The head of one of Wales’s oldest law firms has taken over a legal post that dates back over a thousand years to the days of Alfred the Great and Ethelred the Unready. Sarah Noton, of leading law firm Swayne Johnson, who have a base in St Asaph and branches across...
Mum inspires Sarah to teach CPR to pupils
A hospital worker volunteered to teach life-saving skills to schoolchildren after colleagues attempted to save her own mum who had suffered a massive heart attack. Operating department practitioner Sarah Williams-Bellis, who works at Spire Yale Hospital, in Wrexham,...
Seaweed sausages – one of the new tastes of Wales
Seaweed sausages, cheesy Welsh cakes and boozy biscuits – three local food treats with a difference that could soon be in production in North East Wales. The local delicacies have been cooked up by the team at The Food Technology Centre in Llangefni, for North East...
Cave rescue team honoured for Thai football team rescue
A cave rescue team which helped mastermind the safe release of a Thai football team in one of the most perilous rescue missions in history were the pride of Wales at a special awards ceremony. Members of the South and Mid-Wales Cave Rescue Team (SMWRCT) played a vital...
