Kia Niro drive by Steve Rogers
Here’s a Kia that can’t stop winning awards. This has been quite a year for the new Niro chalking up UK Car of the Year best crossover, and Women’s World Car of the Year among a string of gongs. Niro laid the foundations for Kia’s electric programme in 2016 as the...
Mother and son aiming to create golden future at Welsh family firm celebrating 50th anniversary
A mother and son are leading from the front at a family-run animal bedding company that’s celebrating its 50th anniversary with a 25 per cent surge in sales. Chris Whittaker, a third generation director at the Wrexham-based Platts Group, has already won a major honour...
Starring role for Llaeth y Llan dairy in life-changing TV show
An award-winning yogurt maker from Conwy took centre stage in a TV show that transforms people’s lives. The Llaeth y Llan dairy in Llannefydd, near Denbigh and St Asaph, was the location for one of the tasks during the filming of the popular S4C programme, FFIT...
King Ben and Queen Sara crowned ahead of coronation celebrations
A care organisation has crowned its own King and Queen in the run up to a bumper weekend of Coronation celebrations. While the nation parties as King Charles III officially accedes to the throne, there will be loud cheers at Pendine Park in Wrexham and Caernarfon....
Volvo XC60 drive by Steve Rogers
A car company director asked 30 motoring journalists would they buy an electric car tomorrow? Only four put their hands up. Mind stayed down. The problem is not the cars, the majority of which are innovative and good to drive. The biggest barrier as we move rapidly...
Ex-actress Bethan wins award in new stage of career after “baptism of fire” running care home
An actress, singer and storyteller who switched from a career in the theatre to become one of the youngest care home owners in Wales has won a top award. Bethan Mascarenhas, now 33, was chosen by the Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers to receive its City and...
Love Island star helps mum Linette get fit in case she needs to donate kidney to son Ifan after cancer nightmare
A mum of three from Gwynedd whose youngest son battled cancer has vowed to lose weight and get fit in case he needs her help in the future. Little Ifan Gwilym was diagnosed with the condition when he was just two years old after doctors found he had tumours on both...
Wrexham firm powers ahead into the future as it celebrates 10th anniversary
A growing photocopier and printer business launched from a back bedroom in Wrexham is celebrating its 10th anniversary and now has customers across the UK. Vaughn Rawson, who began his working career at 15 as a trainee butcher before turning to office supplies, now...
Senior Labour MP blasts Welsh Government decision to axe £100M Flintshire road plan
A senior Labour MP has launched a scathing attack on the Welsh Government’s controversial decision to axe a £100 million new road project in Flintshire. The planned new dual carriageway, the so-called Red Route, linking major routes from the North West of England with...
Welsh warehouse heroes achieve rare honour
A Welsh warehouse and distribution company has been hailed as the “best of the best” after achieving a rare accolade. Wrexham-based McCarthy Distribution Ltd is one of the first companies in the UK to receive a special certificate for retaining the British Retail...
