#itsgoodtotalk – gastro pub calls time on mobile phones
A popular Wrexham gastro pub is calling time on mobile phones for one night a week in a bid to encourage people to chat without any distractions. Customers at The Fat Boar pub and restaurant in Wrexham will receive 25 per cent off their food bill if they are willing...
On your marks! Joneses are on the run to set new world record
An appeal has been launched for help in setting a new world record for the biggest gathering of runners named Jones. Already more than 800 athletes have signed up for the fifth Jones Crisps Anglesey Half Marathon on Sunday March 4 - with almost 10 per cent of them...
Raising the roof in aid of Blue Sky charity
A young band is following in the footsteps of rock star Mike Peters to raise money for a charity that helps hospital patients. The Wrexham-based group, Gogs, are organising a charity gig in aid of Awyr Las/Blue Sky at the Starbucks café at the town’s Eagles Meadow...
Ern and Gwyneth still utterly devoted after 70 years of wedded bliss
A World War Two Spitfire mechanic and the young girl he met and fell in love with at a Flintshire aircraft factory have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Ernest Simmonds and his wife, Gwyneth, both 92, held a platinum anniversary party for family, friends and...
Beds blocked by bureaucracy
Hold-ups with paperwork on the part of the NHS and local authorities are stopping elderly people being discharged quickly from hospitals into care homes. That’s the message from the boss of a home in Colwyn Bay who says that delays in the preparation of formal care...
Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce
Road test by Steve Rogers IF there was one car law I had the power to change it would be to scrap front the number plate and save great looking cars from being defaced. We have binned the road fund licence disc on the windscreen so let's do the same with this outdated...
X-Factor and former Drifters star brings his band’s soul sound to charity ball organised by Wrexham businessman
AN X-Factor star and former member of legendary soul group The Drifters will be performing at a charity ball organised to raise funds for children with a rare, life-limiting disease. Pierre Herelle will be there with four-piece Motown act The Soulstars at the seventh...
Tough trek to Everest for Soughton Hall estate boss Shane to raise awareness of autism which affects his daughter
THE estate team boss at a luxury North Wales wedding venue has trekked to the foot of Mount Everest to raise awareness about autism which affects his young daughter. Shane Fallon, who heads up estate maintenance for Elle R Leisure which owns Soughton Hall near...
Clara indulges in her passion for vintage at Forties Festival Ballroom Blitz concert
Singer Clara Bloom will be indulging in her passion for vintage clothes and music when she takes to the stage in a festival marking North Wales’ role in World War Two. She will be headlining at the Ballroom Blitz dance evening, part of the hugely popular Forties...
Businesses cut the cost of sick leave thanks to Rhyl City Strategy
A social enterprise is on a mission to combat absenteeism at work through ill-health, which is costing the Welsh economy £500 million a year in lost production. New figures have shown that last year Rhyl City Strategy (RCS), which has offices in Rhyl and Bangor, has...
