Undercover cops to patrol bars in Wrexham and Flintshire to keep women and girls safe
Undercover police officers will mingle with night-time revellers in the weeks leading up to Christmas in a move to keep women and girls safe. The new initiative has been announced by North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Andy Dunbobbin who has secured an extra...
Food delivery business fast-tracks its staff to solve HGV driver shortage
A major Welsh food distribution company is fast-tracking drivers through their HGV tests to beat delivery shortages caused by the pandemic and Brexit. Harlech Foodservice has seven drivers at their depots in Gwynedd and Chester on course to complete their HGV Class C...
Tributes to “feisty and wonderful” Bessie who’s died aged 105
Tributes have been paid to a “feisty and wonderful” woman who has died at the grand old age of 105. Bessie Hughes was born at the height of the First World War and lived all her life in Brymbo, near Wrexham, before moving to Pendine Park’s Hillbury care home in the...
Tourism heroes take centre stage
The heroes of the tourism and hospitality industry in North Wales are to be honoured for their “grit and determination” in surviving the pandemic. The judges have announced the finalists who will take centre stage at prestigious Go North Wales Tourism Awards at Venue...
Isuzu D-Max drive by Steve Rogers
What a time it has been for the pick-up market with booming sales and upheaval all at the same time. The market has gone berserk right across Europe and the UK swept along by Yups going nuts for double cab pick-ups to transport their trendy lifestyle kit. And they are...
North Wales construction company launches private housebuilding arm
A rapidly-growing North Wales builder has started work on a £25 million scheme to build over 100 new homes in Colwyn Bay. Bamber Homes is a new division of the Mochdre-based Brenig Group and has been formed to develop the company’s private housebuilding projects....
Children in Need hero Matt Baker hails trailer firm “friends” for coming up trumps
TV’s Matt Baker has hailed a trailer firm for playing a “crucial part” in getting the 2021 Great Rickshaw Relay Challenge on the road. Ifor Williams Trailers, who have factories in Corwen and Cynwyd in Denbighshire and Sandycroft and Deeside Industrial Estate in...
Royal composer back on home turf for Welsh premiere of new concerto
A new work by royal composer Paul Mealor is being premiered at a top music festival. The concerto written by Professor Mealor, one of the world’s most performed living composers who was born in St Asaph and brought up in Connah’s Quay, was jointly commissioned by the...
High-tech kit helps “world class” mountain rescue team respond to record number of call-outs
A mountain rescue team is dealing with a record number of call-outs because of increases visitor numbers and extreme weather caused by climate change According to Tim Bird MBE, the team leader of the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation (OVMRO), they are being...
Nicola conquers dyslexia to land top job at award-winning care firm
A mum of two who is severely dyslexic and left school at 16 with no qualifications has landed a top job at one of Wales’s leading care organisations. Nicola Brantley, 37, has been appointed Deputy Care Operations Officer, for the award-winning Pendine Park care...
