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,...
I’m a Local Celebrity – Get Me in the Picture
A group of local heroes in Abergele have been given the star treatment as part of a photography project inspired by I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Their pictures taken by a top photographer are emblazoned on an eye-catching display of 20 giant portraits just down...
Caring “guardian angels” come to the rescue after shocking theft from church
A big hearted care organisation has come to the rescue after the £400 in donations from an orchestra’s 10th anniversary concert in a church was stolen. Bosses at Pendine Park were so horrified by the shocking theft at St Giles’ Parish Church in Wrexham that they have...
Street of fame – new book honours the First World War fallen of Denbigh
Over 100 years after the First World War ended the carnage it wreaked on a North Wales town – and on one street in particular – has been commemorated in a new book. For Your Tomorrow We Gave Our Today commemorates the sacrifice of over 150 young men from Denbigh who...
