A housing association stepped up to the plate like footballer and free meals campaigner Marcus Rashford to keep children on an estate fed over the half term break. Cartrefi Conwy pledged to provide hot meals as part of the holiday activities organised by the Tŷ Llywelyn Youth Club on the Tre Cwm estate in Llandudno. […]
The comings and goings at a new hedgehog hotel are enchanting the animal loving residents of a care home. The state-of-the-art pad at Pendine Park in Wrexham has attracted a host of visitors including squirrels, rabbits and even a badger – but no prickly customers as yet. The glamorous guesthouse was designed by the residents […]
Local charities and groups from North Wales are being urged bid for a slice of a £5,000 community fund set up by a big-hearted bakery. The family-run Village Bakery say they want to give something back to the community which has helped the award-winning firm become such a success. According to managing director Robin Jones, […]
What do pop megastar Rihanna and country singer the Welsh Whisperer have in common? Both artistes turned to Ifor Williams Trailers when they needed to transport their kit while on tour. Rihanna’s team opted for a box van wrapped with tour branding for the 14,000 mile marathon across Europe while rising star the Welsh Whisperer, […]
A search has been launched in North Wales to find volunteers to act as custody watchdogs to police the police. North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones is seeking up to nine independent custody visitors to help him. Mr Jones wants to appoint people to join the existing team responsible for visiting custody facilities […]
A tourism boss has warned of the “catastrophic” threat to the livelihoods of 1,800 people in Wrexham because of a lack of government support. Jim Jones, the chief executive of North Wales Tourism, said the support package on offer from the Welsh Government is nowhere near enough to protect the industry as he spoke in […]
Here’s a question which often comes my way. Would you buy a Seat Leon over a Volkswagen Golf? By now everyone interested in cars knows Seat is part of the VW-Audi empire and that Leon is a Golf in Spanish disguise because while it is designed and built in Barcelona all the mechanical bits come […]
A care home boss has told of her despair after Covid testing failures forced her home into an unnecessary shutdown – twice in 13 days. Clare Roberts, who manages Haulfryn Care Ltd in Cymau, Wrexham, said she had been living on constant edge since a night care worker had falsely tested positive for coronavirus two […]
A young woman who was left devastated after her sister was killed by a drunk driver has got her life back on track and is training for a degree in nursing thanks to a pioneering pilot scheme at a care organisation. Amy Rowlands, 27, left Ysgol Friars in Bangor without completing her A-levels because she was […]
A social care leader has spoken of the growing alarm over the high rate of false positive Covid-19 test results that’s piling pressure on struggling care homes. Mario Kreft MBE, the chair of Care Forum Wales, revealed a survey of members had shown that nearly a third of care homes had experienced a test which […]
