Ifor Williams expands with £5m investment
A top trailer firm is opening a new £5m factory to cope with strong demand for its products. Ifor Williams Trailers is setting up a new production line at a site in Sandycroft in Flintshire to create extra capacity to build its iconic livestock trailers. The move will...
Agonising wait over as Jo confirmed as fastest truffle maker on the planet
A top chocolatier has finally been confirmed as the fastest truffle maker on the planet - after an agonising wait. The record set by Jo Edwards in front of a huge crowd at last year's Llangollen Food Festival has only just been ratified by the Guinness Book of World...
Crooks’ cash funds community crimebusters
A special fund which uses cash seized from crooks to help community crimebusters in North Wales is set to take its hand-outs to over £200,000 in five years. The Your Community, Your Choice Awards are again putting up over £40,000 for local groups and North Wales...
Silver surfer Don, 82, stars with Twist and Pulse duo
Britain’s Got Talent street dance duo Twist and Pulse, fire artists, free runners and an 82 year old silver surfer were among the stars of an action-packed fun day. The dynamic London-based dancers, runners-up in the hit TV talent show, wowed the audience at the Big...
Poet revisits dementia care centre whose residents provided inspiration for his Eisteddfod crowning glory
A poet returned to a dementia care centre to say a big thank you to the residents who inspired him to write the powerful piece which won a major prize at this year’s National Eisteddfod. Gwion Hallam, whose day job is a television producer, worked on an eight-week...
Bakery set to join upper crust with awards double
A top bakery is hoping to rise to the occasion and clinch an awards double. The Village Bakery has been shortlisted as a finalist in two categories at the bakery Oscars, the Baking Industry Awards, next month. The glittering ceremony is being held at the Hilton Hotel...
First North Wales gourmet golf festival aims for slice of £4 billion a year national market
Keen amateur players from across the UK are being invited to tee up on four of North Wales’s finest courses in the region’s first-ever golf festival - and enjoy fine cuisine at the same time. The Golf North Wales Festival is a 54-hole event staged over three days at...
Flamboyant Italian pianist stars at top music festival
One of the world’s top young pianists will be starring at a music festival. The flamboyant Italian, Federico Colli, 29, will be appearing at the North Wales International Music Festival at St Asaph Cathedral at 7:30pm on Thursday, September 21. He has quickly forged a...
Trailer firm helps make it easier to log onto the internet in some of the wildest places
A North Wales trailer firm is helping to bring internet access to places that conventional systems cannot reach. A small fleet of rugged domestic trailers built by Ifor Williams Trailers have been supplied by the company’s main distributor in Scotland’s North...
Rubicon Garden Rooms wins seal of approval from consumer watchdog
A North Wales garden room company has become the first of its kind to win the seal of approval from a customer watchdog. The Buy With Confidence scheme, run by Trading Standards teams around the UK, has welcomed Deeside-based Rubicon Garden Rooms as a member. It links...
