Great-gran Moira, 92, launches search for fellow veterans of 1947 peace festival
A music loving 92-year-old great-grandmother is spearheading an appeal to find veterans of the first ever Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in 1947. Retired teacher Moira Humphreys was a member of the Coedpoeth Youth Choir who took to the stage at the...
Football club appeal for more coaches to help with fast-growing junior section
A go-ahead Vale of Clwyd football club is appealing for more coaches to help with its expanding junior section. St Asaph City, which runs two senior sides in the North Wales Ardal Leagues, also fields over 80 youngsters in five sides from Under-Six to Under-12 in the...
Masks may still be required in Welsh care homes after lifting of Covid curbs
Some Welsh care homes may still require people visiting relatives or friends to wear masks – depending on the level of risk to residents. That was the message from Care Forum Wales, which represents nearly 500 social care providers, after the Welsh Government revealed...
Jet-setting golfer Rachael gets in the swing with £10,000 boost
A leading local financial planning company is helping a talented Wirral golfer join the sport’s jet-set on the Ladies European Tour with a sponsorship package worth £10,000 for her debut season. Wrexham-based Hadlow Edwards Wealth Management have backed former England...
Big-hearted care home “super seven” step up in aid of hospice
A care home’s ‘Super Seven’ have vowed to smash a £1,000 fundraising target they set themselves in aid of a hospice. The septet of energetic staff members from Pendine Park’s Hillbury House Care Home, Wrexham, are taking on the famous 10-mile Nightingale House Hospice...
Top bakery on a roll with 100 jobs on offer thanks to new £16m production line
A new £16 million production line will create 100 jobs at a top Welsh bakery. The investment at the fast-growing Jones Village Bakery in Wrexham has been hailed as a major boost for the local economy. The state-of-the-art equipment is being installed at the family...
Re-use expert Paul plans to turn scrap into refugee shelters and play dens
A re-use and repurposing expert from Chester is developing a new line in easy to assemble structures which can be used for everything from disaster relief shelters to children’s play dens. Paul Ridley is familiar sight at car boot sales across North East Wales and...
VIP pupils say makeover at old school is class act
The last reception class at a historic former primary school were VIP guests of honour at a celebration of its £5.3 million transformation into showpiece homes. Ysgol Maelgwn, in Broad Street, closed for the last time five years ago but the pupils, now at the new...
Kia Sportage drive by Steve Rogers
There are not many car companies that can boast an SUV as their best seller in every corner of the world so turn the spotlight on the Kia Sportage. I remember the UK launch in 1995 taking the car off road at the top of the Horseshoe Pass. Then it was nothing more than...
New city of Wrexham gets big thumbs up from business leaders
Business leaders have given a big thumbs up to news that Wrexham has been granted city status following a competition to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Wrexham Business Professionals have campaigned for more than a decade to help secure city status and say...
