Kind-hearted family firm flies flag for Wales
A big-hearted animal bedding company from Wrexham who gave all its staff a £1,000 Covid bonus is vying for the title of the UK’s best family firm. Fast-growing Platts Agriculture will be flying the flag for Wales at the Federation of Small Businesses Awards when it...
North Wales TV company leads £650,000 global co-production
A North Wales TV company is going global with a new big budget show that busts the myth that rain is shaped like teardrops. Caernarfon-based Cwmni Da led an international consortium to make the three-part series which takes an in depth look at how rain has affected...
“I must be loopy!” Daredevil Ali conquers fear of heights in aid of cancer charity
A daredevil social worker who’s terrified of heights is taking on a magnificent seven charity challenges – including a skydive and looping the loop while wing-walking. Brave Ali Alcock, from Corwen, is aiming to conquer her fears in aid of the Macmillan cancer charity...
Care home celebrates Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with royal roses
A care home in Gwynedd has come with a blooming marvellous way of celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Residents at Pendine Park’s Bryn Seiont Newydd dementia centre in Caernarfon have watched the gardening team transform a grassy area in front of the...
Happy landing for former chef Dale
A former chef whose career has taken him from the Michelin-starred Dorchester Hotel to Doha international airport has landed a job at a top care organisation. Along the way Dale Hall has cooked for scientists in the Antarctic, been blown up by a mortar shell in Iraq...
Construction company building careers as it expands across North Wales
A North Wales construction company is building careers as well as homes as part of a major expansion across the region. The Brenig Group, based in Mochdre, near Colwyn Bay, is at work on a major passive housing development for leading housing association Cartrefi...
Bombshell report warns setting care home fees too low is “unlawful”
Councils in North Wales have been accused of acting “unlawfully” for starving care homes of the essential funds they need to look after frail and vulnerable people. According to Care Forum Wales (CFW), many local authorities are breaking the official guidelines which...
Watch out for the grizzly experience down in the woods
If you go down to the woods today you’re in for a massive surprise – a nine feet tall grizzly bear. The giant creature, weighing in at about three quarters of a ton, is the latest eye-boggling creation of chainsaw sculptor Paul Morris, a long-standing member of the...
Festival’s “big, brassy choral spectacular” to celebrate hat-trick of anniversaries
A new Wrexham-based community choir will help a top music festival celebrate its 50th anniversary and two other major milestones. Organisers of the North Wales International Music Festival say the launch concert at St Asaph Cathedral on Saturday, June 4, will be a...
High Sheriff vows to work with schools to keep young people out of trouble
The new High Sheriff of Clwyd has pledged to work with schools across North East Wales to help keep young people on the straight and narrow. Zoë Henderson, 60, a former executive with the giant US-based Dow Chemical Corporation, has hit the ground running by arranging...
