Hat-trick of world premieres at Bangor Music Festival
A top music festival will be unveiling a hat-trick of world premieres. The Bangor Music Festival kicks off with a St David's Day concert by Britain's Got Talent finalists, Cȏr Glanaethwy, and will also star the internationally renowned singing ensemble, The Swingles....
All Wales Boat Show sails back into Conwy marina
A BOAT show which buoys up the local economy to the tune of millions of pounds will be sailing back to Conwy in 2017. The glittering All Wales Boat Show is heading back to Conwy Quays Marina for its fourth event next year, bringing with it a fleet of waterborne...
Welsh World War II veteran receives French Legion of Honour
A 90-year-old war veteran has been presented with France’s highest military honour for his service to the country during the D-Day landings in 1944. Bill Speake, a resident at Glanenig Care Home in Talgarth, near Brecon, received the rank of Chevalier in the Légion...
Carnival atmosphere comes to Eagles Meadow with exotic Portuguese parade
A WREXHAM shopping centre will take on a thrilling carnival atmosphere when it becomes a small corner of Portugal early next month. Members of the town’s thriving Portuguese community have chosen to start their big annual pre-Lent parade from Eagles Meadow on the...
First choir to sing at Llangollen prepares for historic return
The first ever choir to sing at the world-famous Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod is to make a symbolic return to celebrate the festival’s 70th year. The Colne Valley Male Voice Choir, based in Huddersfield, has scooped six titles at the historic festival...
Children’s hospice bowled over by team’s generosity
A tenpin bowling alley is striking out in aid of a children's hospice. Staff at Tenpin at the Eagles Meadow shopping centre in Wrexham have voted for Hope House as their chosen charity in 2016. The organisation has two hospices, Hope House near Oswestry and Tŷ Gobaith...
Top builder up for national awards
Top North Wales builders Anwyl Construction are in the running for a double award at a major UK-wide housing innovation awards ceremony. Anwyl, who will move into brand new headquarters at Ewloe this month, have picked up two nominations for a development in Rhyl from...
Rubicon’s new garden room helps motor neurone sufferer Ray stay in his Flintshire home
A former postman struck down by motor neurone disease has been helped to stay in his home, thanks to his MP and Flintshire building firm Rubicon. Ray Gudger from Mancot has extremely limited movement due to the debilitating disease that attacks his muscles - the same...
Cost of policing goes up by just 9p a week for the average household
The cost of policing North Wales is going up by just 9p a week for the average householder. The two per cent increase asked for by North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Winston Roddick was agreed on Monday January 25 by the North Wales Police and Crime Panel. It...
Housing association gets tough with rowdy neighbours on estate
A HOUSING association has clamped down on rowdy troublemakers who were making life a misery for other residents of a Conwy Valley estate. Cartrefi Conwy secured court injunctions against a group of six people who had been holding noisy parties at a property on its...
