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...
Merger adds up to expansion for top accountancy firm
A growing firm of chartered accountants has expanded again after merging with another practice. This time Coxeys, who have offices in Wrexham, Chester and Saltney, didn’t have to look far for the latest opportunity to boost the operation. The long-established Martin...
Job seekers brush up new skills with community centre makeover
A community centre is being given a makeover by job seekers aiming to build a new future for themselves in the construction industry. Everyone benefits from the work being carried out at the Community House on the Chester Avenue estate in Kinmel Bay. It’s being done...
Hero grandfather makes perilous road trip to Ukraine to deliver vital medical aid
A retired firefighter has completed two perilous journeys delivering medical aid to Ukraine – with the help of Europe’s top trailer maker. Peter Bee, 65, and his 70-year-old next-door neighbour Glyn Jordan, from the village of Needham, South Norfolk, made a pact over...
