Marathon mum gets fundraising boost thanks to leading storage firm
A determined mum who lost two family members to cancer within eight months is taking on a double marathon challenge in their memory to raise money for a top Welsh charity. Emma McCracken, will complete both the New York and Berlin marathons – just six weeks apart – is...
£250K project to recruit small army of volunteers to help out across Conwy
A £250,000 project that aims to open up volunteering opportunities across Conwy has been launched by a mum who is no stranger to doing something for nothing herself. Jasmine Pilling is the Programme Manager for Amdani! Conwy – Amdani means Go - which aims to recruit...
Being honoured by King Charles is flipping marvellous, says bakery pioneer Alan
A trailblazing bakery industry pioneer has been honoured with an MBE. Alan Jones, 79, transformed a back street bakery with five staff into the multi-award winning Jones Village Bakery that now employs 800 people and has a turnover of more than £80 million. Now...
Top prize attracts 25 of world’s finest young singers for festival showdown
Twenty five of the world’s finest young singers will be heading to North Wales to compete for a prestigious international prize. Entrants from five continents will be battling for the title of Pendine International Voice of the Future at the Llangollen International...
Charity looks for volunteers to make PACT against crime
A search has been launched for a trio of volunteer crime busters. The call has come from the North Wales Police and Community Trust (PACT) which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The charity is looking to recruit the volunteers, one to work in each of the...
Theatre company off on Wales summer tour – from a storage unit in Gwynedd
A theatre company are dusting off their acclaimed production of tales from The Mabinogion, Wales’s stories of myths and magic, to set off on a nationwide tour – from a storage unit in Gwynedd. Struts and Frets are taking their Welsh language Y Mabinogi back on the...
Dylan Thomas’s radio masterpiece brought back to life 70 years on
A famous radio broadcast by poet Dylan Thomas about Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is being recreated to mark its 70th anniversary. The reading from actor, writer and director Celyn Jones will form the centrepiece of a mini programme of events to...
Josie’s rapid rise from fish fingers to the top of the food chain at Harlech
A young woman has climbed from the front line to senior management at a top food wholesaler in just two years. University of Chester graduate Josie Swift, 29, has been appointed as the new Head of Purchasing at fast-growing Harlech Foodservice, which has bases in...
Community minded youngsters get stuck in to clean up estate
Fifty community-minded volunteers took part in a litter pick to kick start a summer campaign to spruce up a housing estate. The two month long project on the Parc Peulwys estate in Llysfaen, above Colwyn Bay, is being organised by housing association Cartrefi Conwy...
Seat Leon Estate drive by Steve Rogers
Remember this? The good old reliable estate car. It’s what we used to transport the family to the seaside, for some it doubled up as a workhorse. If you could stretch to a big Volvo there was even room for furniture. Antique dealers loved them, apparently. Then Nissan...
