Popping candy will create sweet music and make festival fizz
Sweet-toothed music lovers will be fizzing with joy at the world premiere of a new composition inspired by popping candy. The tasty piece has been written by acclaimed composer Guto Pryderi Puw and will be one of eight new works being premiered at Bangor Music...
Uplifting brunch club feeds the soul
A brunch club run by community spirited volunteers has thrown a lifeline to pensioners enduring the impact of loneliness during the pandemic. Some members had not been out socialising for nearly two years before the club re-opened just a few weeks ago. Now they are...
Travel firm takes off again with big surge in bookings for dream holidays in the sun
A Welsh travel agent says business is taking off again with a “big surge” in bookings after the rules on Covid testing for international travellers were eased. Don Bircham, the managing director of Wrexham-based Hays Travel (North West) which has almost 50 branches...
Police boss renews call for Hillsborough Law after powerful TV docu-drama
A police boss has made an impassioned plea for a law to prevent miscarriages of justice like those suffered after the Hillsborough disaster. North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Andy Dunbobbin spoke out after the screening of the powerful TV drama, Anne, based on...
Mazda CX-30 drive by Steve Rogers
Here’s a car that has lived up to expectations. When Mazda’s compact SUV was launched two years ago it was predicted to become the company’s best seller, and it has toppling CX-5 and the Mazda3 hatchback. Hardly a risky forecast as the great British public had made it...
Pocket rocket ready to unlock his potential in the mad and muddy world of motocross
A nine-year-old pocket rocket from Anglesey is aiming to make a big splash in his second season in the mad and muddy world of motocross – on a bigger, more powerful bike. Kyle Jeffcoate, from Holyhead, cut a dash in his first year in the rough and tumble of this...
UK pub chain’s renewables boss goes green again at his Anglesey home
The man who turned one of the UK’s biggest pub chains green is backing the country’s campaign to cut carbon by turning his Anglesey home into a renewables paradise with the help of a Denbighshire firm. Martin Schwaller slashed the multi-million pound annual...
Young mum Lois battles rare illness to get out wheelchair and run 10k
A mum of two from Gwynedd who was paralysed from the waist down by a rare condition has gone on to run a 10k and become a weight-loss champion. Lois Morgan-Pritchard battled Guillain-Barré Syndrome to climb out of a wheelchair then and now the 33-year-old beautician...
Talented artist pours her heart into charity exhibition to raise awareness of dementia
An award-winning painter has boosted a research charity after hosting an exhibition in honour of her sister who has dementia. Fine art painter Angela Scott teamed up with leading ceramist Caroline Pearce for the special fundraising event, which raised money for...
Young sailors star in new film about epic voyage
Young people from across North Wales who went on an epic tall ship voyage were given the red carpet treatment at the premiere of a film about their adventure. The team’s four-day expedition took them from Plymouth east to Southampton and around the waters of the...
