Construction firm fly the flag for Wales with a double win at UK awards
There was a double celebration for builders Anwyl Construction at a construction industry ‘Oscars’ in London. The Rhyl-based company are no strangers to winning awards and have previously been nominated for UK building awards but this time they took home two top...
Terror fears put extra pressure on police
A crime tsar has warned the terror outrages in France have highlighted the increasing demands on the police at a time of austerity. According to North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Winston Roddick CB QC, the massacre of 17 people in the French capital is an...
Pioneering arts training at Welsh care organisation is a UK first
A care organisation has developed a pioneering training course thanks to a musical collaboration with one of the world’s top orchestras. All members of staff at Pendine Park in Wrexham are being trained to use the arts as a way of improving the quality of life for the...
Falkland Islands sheep may safely graze thanks to fence posts from Wales
Fence posts made from North Wales timber are keeping sheep from straying in the far-off Falklands Islands. Every year a consignment of 4,000 fence posts weighing 20 tons from Clifford Jones Timber in Ruthin is trucked down to Portsmouth on the first stage of an 8,000...
Wrexham shoppers tackle beer goggle challenge
Shoppers in Wrexham tackled an obstacle course whilst wearing beer goggles designed to recreate the effects of being drunk. Members of the Caia Park Health Team threw down the gauntlet to shoppers at the town's Eagles Meadow shopping centre as part of a campaign to...
Ruth’s Asian adventure raises £15,000 for baby hospice
A kind-hearted businesswoman from Deganwy has raised £15,000 for a hospice for babies with a gruelling charity bike ride in Asia. Ruth Macbryde, a director of Macbryde Homes in St Asaph, cycled the 272 miles from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Angkor Wat in Cambodia,...
Wrexham Half Marathon runners will be rewarded with fruity bara brith
A former world champion athlete used his loaf when he was looking for sponsorship for a half marathon that's celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. As a result, instead of getting medals, competitors taking part in the event in Wrexham receive a traditional Welsh...
Balance mind and body for a better start to 2015
A LIFE coach is offering to help beat those post-Christmas blues and kick off the New Year with a healthy and positive mind and body. Rhona Morris is an expert in helping people change their lives for the better – a New Year’s resolution many of us will be striving to...
Caring customers in Wrexham raise cash for children’s cancer charity
A store manager has paid tribute to her caring customers for raising cash for a children’s cancer charity. Ann Littler, manager of women’s clothes store Wallis, at Eagles Meadow shopping centre in Wrexham praised store-goes for supporting their drive to raise money...
Appeal to help dancers from the roof of the world come to Llangollen Eisteddfod
A major operation is underway to bring a troupe of Nepalese dancers from their home in the Himalayas to Wales for next year’s Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. The idea is the brainchild of Bristol man Todd Lochhead whose wife, Lisa, used to run a shop in...
