Kia Ceed launch report by Steve Rogers
IT has taken 11 years for the silly apostrophe to be dropped from the Kia cee'd. So the third generation hatchback hitting the showrooms is Ceed - with a capital C as well - just as it should have been in the first place. When the car was launched in 2007 the odd name...
Wrexham Lager raises glass to festival as it toasts two major new export deals
An iconic Welsh beer that made a remarkable comeback is celebrating after landing its biggest ever export orders with major deals in China and France. Wrexham Lager was served on the ill-fated Titanic which sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic on...
Special task force honoured for combating virulent batch of the drug Spice
A special taskforce born when a virulent batch of the synthetic drug Spice hit the streets of Wrexham in April last year has won a major award. Then authorities in the town ruled enough was enough and decided something had to be done to tackle the worsening problem....
We knead a hand!
Bakery’s recruitment drive is van-tastic An award-winning bakery have come up with a novel way of launching a recruitment drive for 20 new apprentices. The Village Bakery have turned two of their delivery vans into mobile adverts by wrapping them with a special design...
Mum and dad return with baby Tao to say heartfelt thanks to bakery staff who helped them in hour of “knead”
A proud mum and dad paid a return visit to a bakery to say heartfelt thanks to the staff who jumped action in their hour of “knead”. Dad Matt Cooke was driving his heavily pregnant partner, Margaret Edwards, to hospital when their little boy, Tao, made an early...
Don’t throw “good money after bad”, urges social care leader
A proposed new income tax to fund elderly social care would be “throwing good money after bad” unless there’s radical reform of the whole system, it’s been warned. The idea for the tax of between one per cent and three per cent was recommended in a report by top...
Tai Chi helps dad overcome trauma of living with a heart condition that left him in a coma
A dad-of-three who survived two cardiac arrests including one that left him in a coma for six days is rebuilding his life with the help of the ancient martial art, Tai Chi. Music teacher Paul Williams, 37, from Bagillt, in Flintshire, attends free classes run by...
Unsung heroes rewarded for work with victims of domestic abuse
A VITAL support service that’s come to the aid of thousands of domestic abuse victims as well as helping perpetrators to change their ways has been honoured by North Wales’s policing czar. Gorwel, which is part of Grwp Cynefin and provides a wide range of services for...
Budding Spielbergs make film to find engineers of the future
Budding Spielbergs from three Denbighshire primary schools are working with a pop video producer to make a film to promote engineering as a career. The 35 pupils from Ysgol Carreg Emlyn in Clocaenog, Ysgol Bro Elwern in Gwyddelwern and Ysgol Betws Gwerful Goch have...
Timber company save children’s vegetables from ravenous rabbits
Green-fingered primary school pupils have had their prize fruit and veg saved from ravenous rabbits thanks to a local timber company. Fencing giants Clifford Jones Timber came to the rescue when Llanbedr DC Primary School appealed for help against the bad news bunnies...
