Christmas wrappers bring festive cheer to older people living alone
A group of kind-hearted tenants and staff at a housing association have been busy wrapping Christmas presents for older people who live alone. The nerve centre of the operation is Cartrefi Conwy’s Community House in Chester Avenue, Kinmel Bay, which has been turned...
Gladiator weapons expert helps Llangollen retail fight back in time for Christmas
A Denbighshire town has been given a huge pre-Christmas boost with the opening of six new businesses. Among the newly-arrived retailers is former weapons expert Robert Davies who worked on the fight scenes in blockbuster films like Gladiator and Braveheart. While high...
Raising a toast to Leighton at awards ceremony
A DEDICATED care home worker who created a bar at the nursing home where he works is savouring success after scooping a prestigious national accolade. Leighton Griffiths, 30, was all smiles as he received a silver award in this year’s Wales Care Awards, run by Care...
Recycling heroes help care home go green
A group of people with learning difficulties have launched a new recycling service for a care home in Caernarfon. As well as helping Bryn Seiont Newydd to be more eco-friendly, the aim of the innovative scheme organised by Arfon Community Link is to combat social...
Historic hospital plans get a favourable reception at public consultation event
Plans for the redevelopment of Denbigh’s historic North Wales Hospital site have been given the thumbs up by members of the public as a series of consultations has begun. The latest at Denbigh Library this week saw detailed sets of plans on display with senior...
Callum VIP guest at official opening of Santa’s grotto raising money for charity
A WREXHAM schoolboy with severe speech and learning disabilities was a VIP guest at the official opening of a Santa’s grotto which is raising money for the specialist charity centre which helps him and his family. Callum Roberts, 10, who is a pupil at Alexandra...
Care home housekeeper cleans up at awards
A Bridgend care home head housekeeper is thrilled to be making a tidy success of the career she loves after scooping a top award at the Wales health care ‘Oscars’. Julie Michael who describes herself as ‘a cleanliness fanatic’ was over the moon to sweep up a...
Police boss launches pioneering scheme to steer offenders away from life of crime
A pioneering scheme to steer low-level offenders including people caught with drugs for personal use away from a life of crime has been launched. After receiving rigorous training, nine ‘navigators’ have now started working with suitable candidates who end up at one...
Couple make flower business blossom
Business is blossoming for a busy florist which now numbers Strictly champ Stacey Dooley among its customers. Blooming Gorgeous opened in Rhuddlan less than two years ago but already they’ve had to move to bigger premises in Prestatyn to cope with demand. It’s been a...
Kind-hearted team pack shoeboxes with Christmas joy
Kind-hearted workers from a criminal record checks company have been helping to pack a record 60,000 shoeboxes taking the magic of Christmas to poverty-stricken children around the world. Ten members of staff from Disclosure Services in Wrexham volunteered to lend a...
