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...
Tourism champion on mission to sell North Wales to the world
A Falklands veteran with years of experience with local authorities is on a new mission to sell North Wales to the world. Jim Jones spent eight years with the Welsh Guards and was badly burnt during the Falklands War. After leaving the forces he worked in local...
Entrepreneur Gareth sets up UK’s first glamping construction company
An award-winning entrepreneur from North Wales has set up the UK's first dedicated glamping construction company. Gareth Jones, head of the Carbon Zero Group, is aiming to build on a tripling of turnover in 2015 with ambitious expansion plans, taking on up to 17 new...
Brave David battles back to become carer at flagship centre
AN INSIRATIONAL man has fought his way back from a crippling brain condition to land a job caring for residents at a £7 million dementia centre of excellence. Just over 15 years ago 46-year-old David Edwards, from Llanllyfni, near Caernarfon, was struck down by a...
Slashed car park charges create jobs boost at shopping centre
Businesses at a shopping centre are planning to recruit more staff after car park charges were slashed there. Parking fees at Eagles Meadow in Wrexham town centre were reduced by between 55 per cent and 38 per cent just before Christmas - and it's already providing a...
Good call by expanding mobile phone chain
An expanding mobile phone accessory and repair chain has opened its first store in North Wales. E.ffective is the latest business to move into Eagles Meadow shopping centre in Wrexham and has taken over one of the last few remaining available units. The store, which...
TV stars Dan and Huw back £250,000 appeal to mark centenary of Lloyd George’s premiership
TV presenters Dan Snow and Huw Edwards have backed a £250,000 appeal to celebrate the 100th anniversary of David Lloyd George becoming Prime Minister. It comes as new, previously unseen photos of Lloyd George were revealed by his remaining family. The appeal was...
Shoppers get in a spin at the Quadrant
Shoppers were in a real spin as they got on their bikes as part of a health and wellbeing day in Swansea city centre. Instructors from leading leisure and fitness venue LC were on hand at the Quadrant Shopping Centre manning a peloton of spin bikes as part of the...
