Welsh beef on the menu for Merseyside schools
Welsh beef is on the menu for pupils on Merseyside after a leading wholesaler clinched a major education authority contract worth over £500,000 a year. Harlech Foodservice Ltd is supplying Welsh beef, lamb and other meat products to 59 schools on Merseyside from its...
Outdoor loving nurses take a walk on the wild side
A married couple with 95 years of nursing service between them are retiring to take a walk on the wild side. Hilary and John Mills will be sorely missed by colleagues and residents at Pendine Park’s Highfield Care Home in Wrexham. Hilary has worked for the group for...
Animal bedding firm branches out on road to success and gives staff £1,000 Covid bonus
An animal bedding company that champions the mental health and wellbeing of its staff has given every member of the team a £1,000 Covid bonus. Family firm Platts Agriculture says it’s a way of saying thank you to the workforce for their “incredible help” in navigating...
New inclusive dance group launched in Wrexham with cash seized from crooks
An award-winning dance club is reaching out to a new legion of twinkle-toed performers thanks to cash seized from criminals. Wisp Dance Club has transformed the lives of hundreds of young people with disabilities since being founded by Artistic Director Cher Mather in...
Growing anger as investigation reveals massive North-South divide in care fees
Vulnerable care home residents are being treated “like second class citizens” by councils thanks to a growing North-South divide. An investigation by Care Forum Wales (CFW) has revealed that the fees paid by local authorities in the North are up to £11,000 a year...
Top harp festival showcases hot jazz and world premiere
Harp sensation Ben Creighton-Griffiths will be jazzing things up at a top music festival. Ben and his band, the Transatlantic Hot Club, who play high octane “gypsy jazz” will be taking centre stage at the prestigious Wales Harp Festival at Galeri Caernarfon. The...
Community group to the rescue as fuel poverty starts to bite in the Dee Valley
A Denbighshire widow in her 80s has had the £693 electricity bill she received cut to just £29 after a local community charity stepped in to help. With energy prices expected to surge again on April 1 retired pub landlady Jo, from the Corwen area, who suffers from...
Recycled crooks’ cash helps create “spectacular” community space
A patch of wasteland alongside an historic parish hall with spectacular views over the Menai Straits is to be turned into a community space for the residents of an Anglesey village using cash seized from criminals. The village of Llandegfan, which enjoys a superb...
Diamond couple Ken and Thelma celebrate “fantastic journey”
A last minute day trip to Blackpool resulted in a lifelong romance for a couple who are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary. Ken and Thelma Massey, from Wrexham, met on that fateful trip which Ken only went on because there were spare seats on the bus to the...
Staff-owned TV company clinches deal with “world’s best film school”
An employee-owned TV company has clinched a deal to launch a pioneering training programme for its staff and freelancers with the “world’s best film school”. Caernarfon-based Cwmni Da has signed a three-year agreement with the National Film and Television School’s...
