Iconic Welsh trailer firm keeps Bruce “on the ground” in tropical St Helena
A transport boss is flying the flag of Europe’s leading trailer firm on one of the world’s most remote inhabited islands. Business has been booming for Bruce Salt since he shipped his first Ifor Williams TT105 tipper trailer to Saint Helena Island in the South...
Cost of policing due to increase by 38p a week for average household
A police boss has unveiled plans for a 38p-a-week increase in the cost of policing in North Wales – less than the price of a packet of chewing gum. North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones says the 7.74 per cent rise is needed to recruit 34 extra officers...
Why don’t you stay just a little bit longer in beautiful North East Wales
A brand new tourism project aimed at boosting the rural economy by encouraging visitors to one of Wales’s most beautiful regions to make more of their stays has been launched in North East Wales. Stay, Eat, Do is intended to provide packages combining accommodation,...
Audience will lap up music from wacky Xbox orchestra
A wacky orchestra that uses computers and Xbox game controllers to make music will be taking centre stage at a top festival. The Swansea Laptop Orchestra are promising an “exciting and stimulating” evening at the Bangor Music Festival which gets under way at the...
Chainsaw sculptor creates a magnificent menagerie
A former art student who discovered a talent for chainsaw sculpture has created a magnificent menagerie of woodland creatures The collection of giant squirrels, owls and hawks carved by Paul Morris now adorn the grounds of the Pendine Park Care Organisation in the...
Steph fulfils lifelong ambition to walk Great Wall of China and raises £2,500 for hospice
A finance firm worker from has fulfilled a lifelong ambition to walk along the Great Wall of China raising a whopping £2,500 for a Wrexham hospice. Steph Edwards, who is a paraplanner for Hadlow Edwards Wealth Management Ltd, based at the former Wrexham Lager brewery...
Seat Leon ST road test by Steve Rogers
ESTATE cars aren't meant to be fun...or are they? The days of rattley old boxes bought by people who needed to haul tea chests and sideboards - think they were mainly antique dealers - have been confined to history, in fact I can pinpoint the very year the estate car...
Drugs and homelessness kill 60 people in six years in Wrexham
Drugs and homelessness have claimed the lives of 60 people in Wrexham over the past six years. The grim death toll - equivalent to 10 fatalities a year - is marked on a Memory Tree at a hostel run by a homeless charity in the town And the memorial at The Wallich’s Tŷ...
Neighbours lend a hand as family bakery gears up for expansion
A family-run business is gearing up for the opening of their second bakery with the creation of 20 new jobs in Denbigh in the New Year. The ovens on Henllan Bakery’s new cake and biscuit making facility on Denbigh’s Colomendy Industrial Estate will fire up in January...
Top festival comes of age with boomwhackers and 21 world premieres
A remarkable 21 world premieres will be taking place at top musical festival in North Wales. The new works will be among the highlights of the critically-acclaimed Bangor Music Festival which gets under way at the city’s Pontio centre on Friday, February 8. According...
