Touch of glass as North Wales home improvements firm celebrates 40th anniversary in style with Grand Designs extension
A booming home improvement company is celebrating its 40th anniversary in style by investing £150,000 in a spectacular Grand Designs-like showroom extension. As a result of surging demand, Peninsula, based in Gaerwen on Anglesey, is looking to recruit four people to...
Is this the warmest Welsh welcome in the world?
A Gwynedd B&B owner is in the running for an award for providing the warmest of Welsh welcomes – right down to duvets and pillows made with organic Welsh wool Mirain Gwyn has run the Taldraeth guesthouse in Penrhyndeudraeth on the edge of the Eryri National Park...
Sports loving Wrexham care home residents bowled over by Paralympic sport Boccia
Care home residents in Wrexham have been getting to grips with an exciting Paralympic sport. The residents of Pendine Park’s homes in Wrexham have become big fans of the ball game Boccia, which was first introduced into the Paralympic Games back in 1984 and is set to...
Rollockings in Welsh put wellbeing tea company in with shout for top award
Staff at a health-giving wellbeing tea company in Carmarthenshire will be shouting at their mushrooms in Welsh to shock them into growing more quickly. The team at Tetrim Teas, in Trimsaran, which launched its range of green teas last year, are looking forward to...
Will makes the jump from busking to sharing a stage with the stars
A talented young musician from Colwyn Bay will be sharing the stage with some big stars at a top music festival this summer. Fourteen-year-old Will Glanville, a pupil at Myddelton College, Denbigh, is tuning up for the four-day Deva Fest featuring the Human League,...
Golden milestone for top North Wales accountant who’s still working after breaking his back twice
One of the best known and respected figures in the business world in North Wales is determined to carry on working despite having broken his back in two places. It’s now exactly 50 years since chartered accountant Michael Coxey, 78, arrived in Wrexham in 1974 and set...
North Wales wine merchants raise a toast to the power of AI and record sales
A ground-breaking North Wales wine merchant harnessed the power of Artificial Intelligence to fuel record sales as it celebrates 10 years in business. The husband and wife team of Dylan and Llinos Rowlands launched Gwin Dylanwad, based in Dolgellau, in Gwynedd, in...
Coop that stopped music from dying in schools hailed as “national treasure” by royal composer
A royal composer has hailed a pioneering music service that teaches 5,000 children every week in Wrexham and Denbighshire as a “national treasure”. According to patron Professor Paul Mealor, the spectacular success of the North Wales Music Cooperative is all the more...
Brave Bella, 6, inspires Phil’s close shave in aid of children’s hospital
A bakery “hero” shaved off his bushy beard in aid of a children’s hospital. Phil Lancelotte, a driver at the Jones Village Bakery in Wrexham, was inspired to raise money for Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool by the courage of the six year old daughter of workmate Wayne...
One Show hero Harri books his classmates in for fun session with care home residents
A schoolboy has achieved his dream of introducing his classmates to the care home residents he loves reading his favourite stories to. Harri Shone spends many spare hours after school reading his storybooks to residents at Pendine Park’s Highfield care home, in...
