Historic cricket club discovers W G Grace link as it celebrates 175 years
One of Wales’s oldest cricket clubs is celebrating its 175th anniversary this summer – and an association with a leading law firm which connects it to the legendary Dr W G Grace. Denbigh Cricket Club can trace its ancestry back to 1844 – two years before Grace was...
Dedicated band of volunteers keeping local cycle paths open
A dedicated band of two-wheeled volunteers is combining keeping over 80 miles of cyclepaths across Flintshire and Denbighshire open, repairing children’s bikes and protecting wildlife in the area. The North East Wales Cycle Path Volunteers are part of the nationwide...
Stop putting the boot into football, says police boss
Police forces across the UK are putting the boot into football clubs like Wrexham and Chester by trying to increase their charges for policing matches, according to a policing boss. North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones, a former police inspector and a...
Veteran Dennis, 95, to be guest of honour at special D-Day event
A 95-year-old D-Day veteran will be wearing his medals with pride at a commemorative event to mark the 75th anniversary of the largest seaborne invasion in history. Great grandfather Dennis Young, who now lives at Pendine Park’s Hillbury House care home in Wrexham,...
Brave Danielle launches bowel cancer campaign
A care practitioner who has battled bowel has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the disease. Mum-of-one Danielle Davies, 22,who works at Pendine Park’s Penybryn care home in Wrexham, is warning other young people with unexplained abdominal aches and pains to...
Video map for tourists is a UK first
The UK’s first online video map to promote tourism has been launched to help attract more visitors to North Wales. The new map was unveiled at the annual meeting of North Wales Tourism and includes around 40 films from attractions, events and accommodation providers...
Ambitious £5.2m housing scheme will breathe new life into old school and boost economy
A housing association has started work on an ambitious £5.2 million housing scheme in Llandudno Junction that will help sustain 70 existing jobs and create six new ones. The development is breathing new life into the former primary school, Ysgol Maelgwn which closed...
Model fishermen net four times what they can earn by catching fish
A television documentary crew from North Wales uncovered a fishy tale about Chinese fishermen netting four times as much money by posing as models for tourists instead of catching fish. The otherworldly landscape of the 40 square kilometres of the mudflats on the vast...
Police boss hires staff to launch pioneering scheme to cut crime
A police boss is recruiting staff for a pioneering project to divert “low level” offenders away from a life of crime and keep them on the straight and narrow. North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones will be launching the Checkpoint Cymru programme in the...
Truck driver Phil puts motoring skills to good use on his blood bike
A TRUCK driver who wanted to repay the NHS for helping save his partner's life after she was twice diagnosed with breast cancer has put his motoring skills to good use by becoming a 'blood biker'. Phil Sharrock, 53, who works for Wrexham-based McCarthy Distribution,...
