Nursing home company takes care of business with £120K investment
An award-winning Gwynedd care company is making a £120,000 investment to upgrade its facilities and services. Cariad Care Homes, which employs 115 mostly local staff at its two nursing homes in Porthmadog and Criccieth, is continuing a programme of improvements which...
Power to the people as Minister opens town’s hydro-electric scheme
A Denbighshire town’s very own renewable hydro-electric scheme promising power to the people has been hailed a success by Wales’s energy minister. Lesley Griffiths AM, the Welsh Government Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs, visited Corwen to...
UK’s poshest hostel is ready to rock under new owners
A couple from London have quit the life of finance and fashion to relaunch the £1 million Snowdonia backpackers hostel dubbed the UK’s poshest. Proud North Walian Christian Wynne gave up his financial services career in London along with his fashion designer wife...
Aloha! Store will be turned into Pacific paradise for charity event
A department store in Wrexham will be turned into a Pacific paradise for an event to raise much-needed funds for a cancer charity. The Debenhams store at Eagles Meadow Shopping Centre is holding a Summer Beauty Club Evening next Thursday (June 7) and staff are hoping...
Mercedes-Benz X-class road test
THE SUV boom shows no signs of slowing and with it has come an interesting spin off. Pick-ups, always looked on as workhorses, are sneaking in on the side with plush double cab versions providing alternative family transport. The last year or so has seen a surge in...
Pioneering business park kick-starts construction of 300 new homes
A housing association has built a new business park to create a £30 million a year construction hub. The ground-breaking development by Cartrefi Conwy in Mochdre will kick start plans for regeneration projects across North Wales and to build up to 300 new homes. It is...
Two stellar talents perform at curtain-raiser for top festival
A young piano virtuoso and “supremely gifted” opera singer will have starring roles at the launch concert for an international music festival. Sion Edwards, 17, and Welsh National Opera (WNO) mezzo soprano Rebecca Afonwy-Jones are set to enchant the audience at St...
Caring Ann gets ready for a date with the Queen at the Palace
The manager of a training school for social care practitioners will be swapping the classroom for the grand surroundings of Buckingham Palace. Ann Farr, who runs the Pendine Academy of Social Care in Wrexham, and her fiancé, William Serridge, have been invited to a...
Bakers rise to football challenge to net much needed cash for hospice
A HOSPICE was the undisputed winner of a charity football match staged at the home of the oldest soccer club in Wales. Cefn Druids impressive stadium at The Rock in Rhosymedre was the venue for the fundraising game between Village Bakery’s bases in Wrexham and...
Care home residents re-live 1953 Coronation as they unlock the past with virtual reality goggles
Care home residents on Anglesey are being transported back in time with the use of virtual technology to enhance dementia care. Residents at Gwyddfor Residential Home in Bodedern, near Holyhead, are being taken on a whirlwind journey back to the Queen’s Coronation in...
