Pupils can bring their horses with them as top school opens equestrian centre
Horse-mad pupils can now bring their ponies with them to a top North Wales private school after its equestrian centre re-opened this month. The right royal £30,000 renovation comes 15 years after Olympic eventing gold medallist Princess Anne opened the facilities at...
Jo rises to challenge at top bakery
A leading bakery has launched a £3,000-a-year scholarship programme to help raise standards in the food industry. The first recipient of the Jones Village Bakery’s bursary is Jo Flower, 21, a food technology and product development student at Harper Adams University...
Find out why Titanic passengers thought Wrexham Lager was brewed in England
A unique collection of Wrexham Lager memorabilia is to take pride of place in the original home of the iconic brewery – including a poster designed for the ill-fated Titanic cruise liner. Wealth management company Hadlow Edwards lovingly restored and moved into the...
Touching gesture from trailer firm brings families together
A trailer firm has helped bring families together by creating an ingenious mobile visiting pod for a care home. Ifor Williams Trailers came up trumps after Catherine Roberts, the assistant manager at the 23-bed Cysgod y Gaer care home in Corwen, got in touch asking...
Appeal launched to save lives “one beat at a time”
An appeal has been launched to pay for life-saving defibrillators to be installed at railway stations in North Wales. Sponsors are being sought for the community project to “save lives one beat at time” at the smaller stations along the Conwy Valley and North West...
Student speaks out about brave struggle with anxiety to encourage others to seek help
A university student who has battled anxiety since his teenage years is urging young people with mental health worries to reach out for help through a new support service in Gwynedd. Jay Roberts, 22, is among a team of volunteers who will be offering support to...
Heartfelt lantern tribute to care home nurses
Care home staff and residents have paid a heartfelt artistic tribute to nurses for their heroic efforts throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Pendine Park, which operates homes in Wrexham and Caernarfon, is marking the contribution of its nursing team on International...
Tech savvy new police boss pledges major crackdown on online crime
A new police boss has pledged to pull out all the stops to combat the growing tide of online crime. Tech savvy Andy Dunbobbin, 46, was speaking today (Thursday, May 13) on his first official day in office as North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner after succeeding...
Boss of eco-friendly Iceland urges North Wales companies to join green crusade
The UK’s “greenest grocer” has launched an appeal to companies across North Wales and Merseyside to join the carbon zero crusade to help save the planet. The call to arms from Richard Walker, the managing director of pioneering eco-aware supermarket Iceland, came...
Geoff reveals how tickled he was to be big mates with comedy king Ken Dodd
A miner’s son who became a globe-trotting sales director has revealed how he became friends with comedy king Sir Ken Dodd who gave him two of his famous tickling sticks. During his long career Geoff Williams, raised in Llay near Wrexham and now living in Southport,...
