Nissan Qashqai drive by Steve Rogers
Fed up seeing nothing but SUVs on the roads? Blame Nissan. It all started in 2007 when the Japanese company hit a brick wall with the Almera hatchback. I had the misfortune to have two company cars and hated both. It could not compete with anyone, let alone leaders...
Santa and heroic maintenance team light up Christmas for care home residents
The maintenance team at a care organisation heroically overcame a series of last minute hurdles to turn their Christmas lights switch-on into a luminous triumph. At one point organisers of the switching-on ceremony at Pendine Park in Wrexham had feared it would have...
Children’s hospice will reach even more children with life-limiting conditions thanks to £79,000 grant
A hospice charity is creating two new jobs in order to expand its work into the community and reach more children with life-limiting conditions. The new project has been made possible after Wrexham-based financial planners Hadlow Edwards Wealth Management Ltd....
Promise of whisky galore at new distillery wins top award
The new £5 million Penderyn Distillery in Llandudno has been named North Wales’s top attraction at the region’s tourism ‘Oscars’. There might be a three to five year wait before its whisky, a sister to the popular range produced at the original Penderyn distillery,...
Mum’s the word for school leavers who want to earn plenty of dough
Mums and dads are being invited with their children to go on a tour of a top bakery that’s launched a campaign to recruit 16 and 17 year old school leavers. The award-winning Wrexham-based Jones Village Bakery has a range of jobs on offer including 20 apprenticeships...
Don’t fall for cruel Covid booster scam
Cruel Christmas scammers are trying to charge for arranging bogus Covid booster jabs for victims in North Wales, it’s been revealed. The warning came from Wayne Jones, the Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales, who has himself been targeted with a fake...
The best Christmas present for care home residents is to keep them safe, says social care leader
A social care leader is calling for a tightening of the rules for visiting care homes to save lives in the run-up to Christmas. Mario Kreft MBE, the Chair of Care Forum Wales, is urging the Welsh Government to step up the programme of booster jabs for care workers. It...
Farming couple say high tech security system is wizard idea
A farming couple have given the thumbs up to a high-tech solution to the age-old problem of farm gates being left open and livestock straying or being stolen. Llion and Sian Jones, who farm 750 acres at Maelogan Fawr over 1,000 feet up on the Hiraethog Mountain ...
Crowning glory for ex-royal love nest
A former royal love nest has been crowned as the best hotel in North Wales. Plas Dinas Country House in Bontnewydd near Caernarfon – once home to Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon – was named as the Hotel of the Year at the Go North Wales Tourism Awards. The headline...
Ford Ranger launch report by Steve Rogers
What did the Romans do for us? Amongst other things they built roads along some pretty treacherous, freezing, windswept Welsh hillsides so their foot slogging centurions could carry on invading our lands. Nearly 2000 years later we are still driving those roads,...
