Welsh heifer Sooty sweeps up championship title at the 2015 NBA Beef Expo...
Joy for young Denbighshire brothers as cousin leads their animal to sash success in this year's National Spring Spectacular Show Sooty, a 17-month old Limousin cross heifer, was led to victory by...
View ArticleWales' disappearing phone boxes: How we've lost 1,000...
Wales has lost more than 1,000 phone boxes since 2012 in a move that slashed the total number by about 20%, figures from BT show. The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales says the disappearance...
View ArticleRunaway car miraculously avoids damage after veering across road in Dyserth
The car, which rolled about 100 yards down the high street while the owner was in a shop, was left without a scratch A runaway car which veered across a road came to a stop millimetres from a house and...
View ArticleResident of flood-hit Ruthin estate speaks out over maintenance of culverts
Andy Lewis posted a picture online of overgrown grass around the culverts on the Glasdir estate, which was flooded in November 2012 Overgrown grass near culverts which were partly to blame for flooding...
View ArticleCynon Valley Museum re-opening plans still on course as volunteer recruitment...
The Aberdare-based museum was closed after Rhondda Cynon Taf council's cabinet members decided to withdraw funding for it in May 2014 Plans to re-open the Cynon Valley Museum are on course to be...
View ArticleWelsh sheepdogs become online video stars to drive up their value at Bala sale
Young bitch Jess from Dylan Edwards, Penrhyndeudraeth, topped Bala's May sale of sheepdogs when selling for 3,900gns Two-thirds of the sheepdogs sold at this month's Bala sale were media stars...
View ArticleInbetweeners star Greg Davies opens up on the pain of losing his...
TV star Greg Davies has told of his painful year after both his father and the man who played his on-screen dad - Rik Mayall - died. TV star Greg Davies has told of his painful year after both his...
View ArticleJob creation programme raises bar in helping young get in to work
An employment scheme hailed as the benchmark for job creation programmes in Europe has now helped more than 1,500 young people across North East Wales into work. Assembly Members Ken Skates and Lesley...
View ArticleHundreds turn out for fracking awareness meeting
The meeting, held at the Prestatyn Cons Club by Frack Free Dee, was to raise awareness of the current licences that have been granted for the Dee estuary and the dangers surrounding the unconventional...
View ArticleMarketmen 'disappointed' by troubled development
Last week, the Advertizer revealed how cinema operator Cineworld has questioned its commitment to the 45 million development, forcing supermarket giant Morrisons, to "review" its progress at the...
View ArticleGlyndwr University vows to back North Wales small businesses
Shaun Roberts, Wrexham and Chester branch chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, and Glyndwr University Interim Vice-Chancellor Graham Upton sign the memorandum Officials have signed a Memorandum...
View ArticleEarthquake felt in Gwynedd and Anglesey
But the force of the quake was felt in nearby Llanberis and Penygroes, parts of Anglesey and even as far away as Llangollen . In a tweet posted earlier today, the BGS tweeted: "Our seismologists are...
View Article'It felt like something large had hit the house' Earthquake reported in Anglesey
The natural environment research council confirmed that seismic activity with a magnitude of 3.0 was recorded centring on Caernarfon . A spokesman for the British Geological Survey said: "Our...
View ArticleSee the emotional moment a grandfather meets the paramedics who saved his life
This is the touching moment a grandfather was reunited with the paramedics who saved his life when he collapsed with a heart attack. Ken Thomason was about to go on a fishing trip when he suffered...
View ArticleGALLERY: Crowds flock to Prestatyn for Classic car show
The Classic Car Show attracted a record entry of cars and motorbikes this year, from favourites such as the 1981 DeLorean and the 1937 Austin Chummy, to the locally-owned Ferrari 275 GTB of Peter...
View ArticleNorth Wales has best performing ambulance crews in Wales new figures reveal
Data released this morning showed in April, just three counties in the whole country hit the Welsh Government's ambulance response time target. It means the board is now just 0.8% away from the 65%...
View ArticleChain bridge reopens after 30 years
Descendants of Exuperius Pickering and Henry Robertson, the men who built and rebuilt the bridge in the 1800s, will be at the opening Llangollen chain bridge in Denbighshire was built in 1817 by coal...
View ArticleHow to have a truly classical summer with these music concerts in Wales
From tenor Alfie Boe in Llangollen to Proms In The Park in Swansea, here's our pick of the classical events A total of 20 young people will be taking to the stage to compete for the title, including...
View ArticleMeliden mum fears son may never walk again unaided after horror crash on...
The mother of a little boy who suffered "traumatic injuries" after being hit by a car said she fears he may never walk again unaided. Eight-year-old Matthew Parr spent two weeks at Liverpool's Alder...
View ArticleSave Betsi Babies: New mums' relief over proposed maternity downgrade
Three months ago, these now happy, smiley mums were told they could be rushed 30 miles from home to give birth after health bosses announced plans to scrap doctor-led maternity at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd....
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