Honesty box helps farm’s growing ice-cream business beat the virus
Honesty has been the best policy for an award-winning organic ice-cream business which has found lockdown salvation in farm gate sales after its summer events programme was wiped out by the pandemic. Chilly Cow ice cream,based in the Vale of Clwyd, set up a portable...
Show goes on for top vocal group poised for music festival return
A world-famous a cappella group that has helped bring music to the homes of choral fans across the globe during Covid-19 is poised for a ‘virtual’ return to a top Welsh music festival. Revered British ensemble VOCES8 is among a packed line-up of musicians headlining...
Food company creates 16 new jobs after sizzling summer with 385 per cent increase in burger sales
A food distribution company has created 16 jobs after achieving record sales over the summer with demand for burgers going through the roof. Harlech Food Service, based in Criccieth and Chester, say easier online purchasing, fixed pricing with competitive prices on...
Skoda Superb road test by Steve Rogers
Bentley one week, Skoda the next. Such is the varied life of your car tester. Turn the clock back 25 years and you could fairly say this was the sublime to the ridiculous but while the brands are poles apart times have changed for the underdog. Volkswagen buying the...
Serial killer Peter Moore inspired by Friday the 13th slasher movies
Eighties slasher movie franchise Friday the 13th may have inspired the deadly killing spree of North Wales cinema owner Peter Moore, according to the man who put him behind bars for life. Moore’s three-month rampage across North Wales in the course of which he killed...
Starring role for Welsh Cakes in royal couple’s virtual tour
A bakery’s iconic Welsh Cakes have been chosen for a starring role in a food-related royal virtual tour of the UK. The Wrexham-based Village Bakery has featured on the social media channels of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall,...
Unique chair designed to combat loneliness in running for award
A unique chair that’s been designed to combat loneliness by encouraging people to sit down and talk to each other has put a housing association in the running for a top award. The Cadair Sgwrs (Chatting Chair) project launched by Cartrefi Conwy has been shortlisted...
Outstanding GCSE grades at Myddelton College represent ‘justice’ for students
The headmaster of one of the UK’s newest private schools said the “outstanding” GCSE exam results represented justice for his students. Andrew Allman, Headmaster of Myddeltpn College in Denbigh, was speaking after 85 per cent of the Year 11 pupils gained A star to C...
Vicious partner tried to kill mum-of-three by crashing car into stone wall at speed
A mum-of-three has told how her violent partner tried to kill her by deliberately crashing his car at speed into a stone wall when she was pregnant. Terrified Annie, 30, not her real name, miraculously survived the impact but suffered whiplash, stomach pains and...
Remarkable Eunice’s mission of mercy helps keep families off the breadline
A remarkable Rhyl woman who is helping keep over 20 people a week across the town off the breadline with her busy food bank has issued an appeal for lockdown donations of food. Eunice Parry has been running the charity from the ASK Centre in Water Street for the past...
