From care home to Christmas run – Mary’s elf-tastic 5k challenge
A Wrexham carer who has “never run before in her life” is taking on a festive 5k race - while dressed in a full elf costume! Mary Prytherch from Pentre Broughton is in training to take on her first ever race at the age of 55 and says although she is nervous she is...
Volvo XC 60 drive by Steve Rogers
We are inching closer to the day when we can sit back and let the car do all the work. Blind comedian and Strictly star Chris McCausland gave us an insight in his TV documentary when he was taken for a drive in San Francisco with no one behind the steering wheel. The...
Homecoming star Catrin to headline North Wales New Year concert
A rising star is set to dazzle at North Wales’ biggest New Year celebration. Talented singer and actress Catrin Mai Edwards, 26, who hails from Mold, will take centre stage as a guest soloist with the acclaimed NEW Sinfonia orchestra for it annual gala concert to...
Peaky Blinders actor Nic is now a star of North Wales tourism after winning award
A luxury glamping site in Flintshire owned by a Peaky Blinders star has picked up a major tourism award. Emlyn’s Coppice, named after the famous Welsh actor, director and writer Emlyn Williams, from Mostyn, has won Best Self-Catering Site of the Year at the Go North...
Baker beams up award and lands Star Trek and Doctor Who wedding cake
A North Wales baker is rocketing to the top after scooping two major awards and landing an out-of-this world wedding cake featuring Star Trek and Doctor Who. Helen Searle-Jones, who runs Searle Jones Cake Design in Hope, Flintshire, has been crowned Best Cake Company...
Biggest-ever £500 raffle launched to help pay for vital hospital equipment
A North Wales hospital charity is offering its biggest-ever Christmas raffle prize – a massive £500 – as it races to raise money for vital equipment. The League of Friends at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan says the record-breaking festive windfall has only been made...
From choirboy to King of Cons: Wales’ investiture star exposed as global fraudster
A new film charting the rise of a choirboy turned global conman is set for a world premiere in North Wales. Astonishing new revelations show how Kenner Elias Jones – who carried the cross and sang at the 1969 Investiture of the then Prince of Wales at Caernarfon...
Gwynedd gems celebrate big wins at Go North Wales Tourism Awards
A cluster of tourism gems in Gwynedd have scooped top honours at this year’s Go North Wales Tourism Awards. Rhaeadr Nantcol Waterfalls, a former hill farm perched above the West Wales coast between Barmouth and Criccieth, was crowned Glamping, Camping and Caravan Site...
Mazda MX-5 drive by Steve Rogers
Some things never change. Let’s go back to March 1990 and I am in Greece for the press launch of the Mazda MX-5. We are all eager to get behind the wheel of this sixties style roadster, a dead ringer for the Lotus Elan, and with pop up headlights to add a bit of...
Music hero Heather strikes gold at ‘social care Oscars’ for giving thousands of North Wales kids the gift of music
The founder of a pioneering music cooperative operating across Conwy, Denbighshire and Wrexham has struck gold at the social care Oscars. Heather Powell won The Sir Bryn Terfel Foundation Wales Care Award for Promoting the Arts in Social Care at this year’s Wales Care...
