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...
Cofis’ £1m stadium dream takes shape with support from backers Harlech Foodservice
A historic £1 million stadium transformation is taking shape as Caernarfon Town FC prepares to host Under 19 European Championship games next summer. The club is currently playing at Llandudno’s Go Goodwin Stadium while The Oval is being overhauled to meet Uefa...
Teen refugee from Ukraine crowned rising star of North Wales tourism industry
A teenager who fled the war in Ukraine has been crowned as the rising star of the tourism industry in North Wales. Yuliia Batrak, 19, a student at Coleg Llandrillo, won Young Person in Tourism and Hospitality prize at the prestigious Go North Wales Tourism Awards. At...
Top secret WWII secretary marks 100th birthday with party at North Wales care home
A wartime secretary who played a top secret role at North Wales RAF base has celebrated her 100th birthday. Marian Williams, who was just 14 when the Second World War broke out, went to work as a teenaged secretary at a mansion near Beaumaris that was requisitioned by...
