Finance boss joins the team at Wrexham copy firm
A FINANCE director whose early career involved deploying troops to global conflict zones is on a new mission with a Wrexham copy firm. Gary Ryan has been appointed Finance Director and General Manager for Rawson Digital and has worked in the copy industry for 16...
Audi A1 Sportback road test by Steve Rogers
THEY are playing a new numbers game at Audi and it got a friend very excited. He was admiring my A1 Sportback and noticed 35 in front of TFSI on the tailgate. He could hardly contain himself thinking the little A1 had a 3.5 litre under the bonnet. A reasonable...
Archdruid’s poetic tribute to unique chair designed to combat loneliness
Wales’s most important bard has paid a poetic tribute to a unique chair that’s been designed to combat loneliness by encouraging people to sit down and talk to each other. Archdruid Myrddin ap Dafydd has written a special englyn – a four-line strict metre verse – in...
Citroen C5 Aircross road test by Steve Rogers
DID you know there are 42,000 speed bumps on roads around the country? Citroen found out as part of a survey on speed bumps and pot holes and reckons the new suspension on its C5 Aircross and C4 Cactus does rather a good job of cushioning the jolting effect. As luck...
Police boss welcomes MPs’ call to decriminalise cannabis
The North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner has welcomed a report from a group of cross-party MPs who predict the UK will fully legalise cannabis within five to 10 years. Arfon Jones, a former police inspector, is a long-time advocate of drugs reform and says the...
Flintshire firm’s £4m industrial estate secures 150 jobs for the area
A £4M industrial estate built by a Flintshire construction and civil engineering firm has been fully let, securing 150 jobs for the area. Kings Court in Sandycroft, built by The Hollingsworth Group close by to the firm’s headquarters in Engineer Park, is now home to...
Young opera star Erin inspires next generation with meteoric rise to success
ASPIRING young singers from across North Wales are being encouraged to follow their dreams and join a new youth opera group to open the doors to success. Welsh National Opera (WNO) is hoping to inspire the next generation of budding opera stars by launching a youth...
New head appointed for fast-growing North Wales private school
A new head has been appointed at Myddelton College in Denbigh which is the second fastest growing private school in the UK. Andrew Allman, 39, said he was “proud and privileged” to take the helm at the co-educational day and boarding school which was recently hailed...
Green machine’s late birdie clinches title
A six-birdie blitz helped green energy business Hafod Renewables take the Ruthin-Pwllglas Golf Club Sponsors Challenge. Hafod Managing Director David Jones led from the front as his four-man team had a run of five threes from their second hole - the ninth on the...
Storage company backs kit donation for young African footballers
Young footballers in West Africa will soon be pulling on the football shirts of a Vale of Clwyd club when they turn out for matches after a chance encounter in The Gambia. Craig Morris, who manages the Lock Stock storage parks in Rhyl and Flint, has persuaded his...
