Energy price rises see homeowners in rush for new £5K green heating grants
A leading North Wales renewable energy installer is reporting a 600 per cent rise in enquiries as homeowners rush to grab £5,000 from the Government’s new Boiler Upgrade Scheme towards new green heating systems. Vale of Clwyd-based Hafod Renewables have had almost...
School students see the future of housing on visit to eco-friendly estate
Students from a Denbighshire school have been given a glimpse into the future of housing with a visit to one of Wales’s first eco-friendly council estates. Year Nine pupils at Denbigh High School were given a guided tour of the Llwyn Eirin development on the town’s...
Kind cub scouts bring Easter joy to Wrexham care home residents
A group of kind-hearted cub scouts brought joy to care home residents when they paid a surprise visit to deliver handmade Easter cards to them. The youngsters representing the 1st Penycae troop, stopped off at Pendine Park care organisation in Wrexham, before going...
Top Ukrainian harpist to make emotional appeal at Welsh festival
A top harpist from Ukraine will make an emotional appeal at a North Wales music festival asking people to donate money to her war-torn homeland. Virtuosa Veronika Leminshenko will be performing virtually at the Wales Harp Festival at Galeri Caernarfon and will be...
TV documentary reveals the cultural links between North Wales quarrymen and Amazonian tribes
The North Wales quarrymen who roofed the world with slate share a culture with remote tribes from the Amazon to New Guinea, according to a BAFTA-winning documentary maker. Steve Robinson, who made BBC’s acclaimed Tribe series with ex-Royal Marine Bruce Parry, is fresh...
Care body quits fees group because councils are “deprioritising care” amid growing North-South divide
An organisation that represents care providers has dramatically quit a group set up to discuss fees. The decision by Care Forum Wales (CFW) to resign from the North Wales Care Fees Group comes amid claims that the region’s councils are “deprioritising care” even...
Travel firm search recruits with chance to visit dream destinations a perk of the job
The chance to “road test” dream holidays will be perk of the job at a North Wales-based travel firm that’s launched a search for 44 new apprentices. With business booming, Hays Travel North West, which has outlets across North Wales and the North West, will be holding...
Memorial Hall where foundation stone laid by Lloyd George given major makeover
A memorial hall built to commemorate a village’s First World War dead has been given a major makeover by a housing association and a construction group. The Memorial Hall Institute in Llandudno Junction was built in the 1920s using bricks shipped from Flanders, in...
New TV thriller is Welsh cross between Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Italian Job
A new TV drama has been hailed as a Welsh cross between Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the Italian Job – with a horsebox in tow. The HBX model provided by Ifor Williams Trailers plays a key role in the S4C series because the plot of Dal y Mellt (Catching the...
It’s ten-foot long and weighs three tons – butcher unveils Britain’s biggest banger
It’s a sausage, it’s ten feet long, weighs three tons and is probably the biggest banger in Britain. It’s the latest artwork from top chainsaw sculptor Ed Parkes and it now stands proudly speared on a wooden fork outside the Conwy headquarters of Wales’s best known...
