Daredevil roller coaster charity climb will be pizza cake for Mike
A restaurant worker is aiming to raise money for a cancer charity by tackling the climb of his life – up Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s Big One Roller Coaster. Kitchen assistant Mike Edwards, 23, who works at Pizza Express at the Eagles Meadow shopping centre has been...
Pamper sessions raise money for cancer charity
Staff at a Wrexham store have filled a make-up bag of cash for a cancer charity after giving feel good make-overs to customers for a small donation. The Boots store at Eagles Meadow Shopping Centre was raising funds for their chosen charity of the year, Macmillan...
Sneak preview of £100,000 refurbishment at historic mansion house in Flintshire
THE NEW owners of a historic mansion house and luxury wedding venue have unveiled a £100,000 refurbishment as part of an ambitious investment programme. A stylish makeover has taken place at Soughton Hall Hotel, near Northop, Flintshire, to ‘breathe new life’ into the...
Royal composer’s premiere at cathedral where it all began
A royal composer has spoken of his love for a top music festival as he prepares for the Welsh premiere of a stunning new work there. Professor Paul Mealor will be unveiling his Symphony No 1, Passiontide, at a launch concert for the North Wales International Music...
Music helps to rekindle memories for dementia patients
Music therapy is helping to rekindle lost memories for people living with dementia. The hour-long weekly sessions at Anglesey’s Cefni Hospital, run by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board’s music therapist Christine Eastwood, are achieving amazing results. She uses...
Artistic kids raise the standard for Wales at flag making workshop
ARTISTIC youngsters came out in force to fly the flag for Wales’s Euros 2016 challenge at a Wrexham shopping centre. Eagles Meadow has been holding a series of special events as part of its campaign to back the national team in the big international football...
Speed painter to pay homage to idol John Lennon at Go North Wales Tourism Conference in Liverpool
A speed painter from Colwyn Bay will bring to life a portrait of John Lennon in less than six minutes, at a conference in Liverpool to share North Wales’ adventure tourism expertise with Mersey businesses. Performance artist Dave Sharp will pay homage to his idol at...
Top apprentice Tom joins upper crust
A bakery apprentice from Wrexham has risen to the top win an award. Tom Jackson, 22, who works for the Village Bakery, is Coleg Cambria's Food Manufacturing Work-Based Learner of the Year 2016. It is the second year in succession for the Village Bakery to clinch the...
Welsh opera star Bryn Terfel on the trail of legendary Luciano in Llangollen
World famous Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel has paid a visit to Llangollen – to film a new TV show and retrace the footsteps of legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. The great bass-baritone was in the town to record a programme for Welsh language channel S4C just...
Abergele pupils get creative writing boost from former Young People’s Laureate of Wales
Raps about US presidential hopeful Donald Trump have been created by Abergele school pupils with Martin Daws, the former Young People’s Poet Laureate of Wales. The Bethesda-based performance poet has headed to the classroom at Ysgol Emrys ap Ewan for after-school...
