Police officers equipped with a miracle nasal spray have saved the lives of two drug overdose victims in Flintshire. The officers have volunteered to take part in a ground-breaking trial with the Naloxone spray which reverses the effect of heroin and other opioid-based overdoses. The latest incident happened in Connah’s Quay when colleagues from North […]
A £200 million rail upgrade linking North Wales and the North West through a new super-hub at Chester can power a pandemic bounce back boom in the region. That investment would include £60 million to speed up the North Wales main line to Holyhead, £60 million to modernise and upgrade Chester Station and £80 million […]
When oil drum salesman Nathan Pearson took time out for a pandemic lockdown meeting round the barbecue he hit on the idea that has turbo-charged his company – steel drum barbecues. Eight months and 60 BBQ sales later his bright idea has mushroomed into a burgeoning business that has outgrown his back garden and the […]
Welsh international star Harry Wilson has teamed up with a trailer firm to help pay for a new junior football clubhouse named in memory of a popular local councillor who did so much for the game in his hometown of Corwen. Two years ago the junior clubhouse and pitches were devastated by catastrophic flooding from […]
A DEVASTATED care boss who fought a valiant battle to protect her care home from the grip of Covid has spoken of the painful “empty feeling” after 12 much-loved residents died. Jodie Jones, the manager of Fairways Newydd Nursing and Dementia Care Centre in Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, has described the shattering outbreak at the home as […]
ABSENCE will not stop love burning brightly this Valentine’s Day for a Wrexham couple whose wedding hung in the balance – waiting for divorce papers to come through. The nuptials in 1969 were mired in difficulties from the word go because church regulations prevented Anne and Frank Thomas from tying the knot at their desired […]
Heartless romance scammers conned lonely women and men in North Wales out of more than £1 million in a nine month period, it’s been revealed. According to North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones, nearly 40 victims were duped out of an average of £30,000 each by the cruel fraudsters. The shock figures were […]
A young dad has bravely told how he was bullied remorselessly and forced to buy prescription drugs containing opiates for his addicted partner. Jack, 27, not his real name, and his two-year-old son have now escaped the life of coercive psychological abuse and have found sanctuary in a refuge run by the Domestic Abuse Safety […]
A social care boss has revealed the second wave of coronavirus has been even more deadly than the first surge. According to Dr Bikram Choudhary, Director of the SilverCrest Group, which owns five care homes Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Ystradgynlais, Covid-19 spread like “wildfire” through three of his five care homes, claiming the lives […]
Diehard Wrexham AFC fans who work for shirt sponsors Ifor Williams Trailers are hoping for a happy Hollywood ending after the sale of the club to superstars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney was completed. There were whoops of joy from supporters at the iconic company’s factories in Corwen, Cynwyd, Sandycroft and on Deeside Industrial Estate […]
