Festival launch will be fit for the Queen
A born royal composer from Connah's Quay and his choir are performing in North Wales as they tune up for their annual summer date with the Queen at Balmoral. Professor Paul Mealor and the acclaimed chamber choir from Aberdeen University will be helping to launch the...
Nurse thanks colleagues and friends for £30,000 fundraising efforts for ill son
A nurse has thanked her kind hearted colleagues and friends for raising £30,000 to help her son, who has been struck down by bone cancer. Wrexham nurse Mandy Giddins and her son Jordan will head to the US in June, where he will undergo a gruelling nine-week course of...
World first for harpist
A renowned international musician who’s played for royalty has released an album of the world’s first ever adaption of Schubert’s piano compositions for the harp. Ieuan Jones, a farmer’s son from Powys, began his love affair with the harp at the age of six and seven...
The human sat-nav who meets and greets thousands at Wrexham Maelor hospital
A former lab technician from Wrexham who has given up his retirement to volunteer at a hospital is urging others to follow his lead. Edward Parr has greeted thousands of people during his work as a Robin volunteer at Wrexham Maelor hospital, and now describes himself...
High-flyer Judy take on hospice role
A hospice charity that has appointed a high-flying finance expert as their new treasurer. Judy Owen, 61, has just started her new role at the St Kentigern Hospice in St Asaph which needs to raise £1.4 million a year to keep going. She previously headed up top flight...
Arrests up after crackdown on child sex offences
A crackdown on child sexual exploitation in North Wales has resulted in a tenfold increase in arrests. The news was revealed by outgoing North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner, Winston Roddick CB QC, during a visit to the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) in...
Top builder posts record £50m turnover
North Wales’ biggest private housebuilder Anwyl has reported a record turnover of over £50 million for 2015. The 16 per cent increase on 2014 is good news for the Ewloe-based firm which recently announced a £40 million construction programme to create 600 homes in...
Major Tesco deal as growing bakery firm stars in new TV campaign
A growing bakery business has clinched a major deal with supermarket giant Tesco to supply their stores in South Wales. The contract coincides with a 14-day TV advertising campaign that's being launched by the Wrexham-based Village Bakery, starting on May 14 on ITV...
Budding singing star Laura is full of beans
A teenage singer who shunned an opportunity to appear on Britain’s Got Talent is full of beans after landing her latest gig. Laura Wilson, 15, of Buckley, set to wow the audience at an acoustic evening at the Costa coffee shop at the Odeon cinema at Eagles Meadow on...
Parliamentary praise for pioneering scheme to steer women from crime
A pioneering scheme to help women steer clear of crime has won praise in the House of Commons. The acknowledgement of the "outstanding" work done by the North Wales Women Centre went on official records after Vale of Clwyd MP Dr James Davies urged the Prisons,...
