New survey shows shopping centre is bucking national trend
A shopping centre is North Wales is bucking the national trend of an overall decline in the number of shoppers. Eagles Meadow in Wrexham is doing far better than the picture painted by the Welsh Retail Consortium which shows that footfall in Wales fell by 1.3 per cent...
Police boss criticises budget delay
North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones has criticised a delay in the setting of the vital policing budget for the coming year. The North Wales Police and Crime Panel today (Monday) voted to defer debate of Mr Jones’s recommended increase of 3.79 per...
Trailer firm joins back-up team for one of world’s toughest rallies
A Flintshire-based trailer firm is helping two intrepid Danish adventurers to safely complete a gruelling drive of almost 2,000 miles in one of the world’s toughest rallies. Aboard their powerful all-terrain vehicle Jacob Glad and his friend Philip Hansen are...
Body worn cameras are great news for everybody – except criminals
Every front line police officer in North Wales will soon be wearing chest mounted video cameras. North Wales Police have taken just delivery of 301 extra body worn video kits and 50 docking stations and they're being rolled out across the region. They have been paid...
A High-society Edwardian wedding and 19th century family scandal uncovered at Soughton Hall
The great-grandson of the last people to live in a Downton Abbey-style mansion house revisited his family’s former home following an historical appeal from its new owners. Photos of an Edwardian high society wedding, pictures of an appeal court judge and a 19th...
Dream date on the cards for the most unromantic couple
A security officer who bought his wife a smoothing iron on Valentine's Day has inspired a search for North East Wales's most unromantic couple. Bosses at the Eagles Meadow shopping centre in Wrexham where Ian Bostock and his better half, Julia, work are now organising...
Tidal Lagoon report delivers major boost for £7 billion North Wales scheme
A Government review into the role of tidal lagoons has delivered a major boost for a £7 billion energy scheme along the coast of North Wales. The independent review by former Westminster energy minister Charles Hendry will potentially unlock plans by North Wales Tidal...
Work begins on a new residential development in Holyhead
Anwyl Homes has commenced work on a new residential development of 123 homes on an 11 acre site on South Stack Road in Holyhead, Anglesey. Formerly agricultural land, the stunning new build development will be known as Tyddyn Bach and comprise an attractive mix of...
Poetic video plea for patience by ex-carer with dementia
A former care worker who has dementia had people in tears when recited a poem on video as a heartfelt plea for patience for those who have the condition. Gary Weir, 54, has been a resident of the Pendine Park care organisation in Wrexham for five years after falling...
“Scratch and sniff” gas safety leaflet is a hit with tenants
A housing association is using scratch and sniff cards to help warn tenants to be on their guard for leaking gas. Cartrefi Conwy is handing out thousands of gas safety leaflets to tenants, giving realistic whiff of what a gas smells like and at-a-glance advice on...
