The first jobs cuts of 2009 in NE Wales came yesterday with Headland Foods, Flint, announcing it was axing 95 posts due to a downturn in business - and taking the total number of job cuts in the region during the so-called credit crunch to 1,172.
Tags: jobs - creditcrunch
The Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom has been blogging about getting caught up in the action whilst an arrest was being made during a patrol in Wrexham. He writes:
"I got involved in a couple of hands-on incidents. The first was a man who had been ejected from one of the town centre clubs for poor behaviour which he then proceeded to repeat on the street in front of me and the local Inspector. All went well until the handcuffing, at which point he decided to fight, and a strong guy he turned out to be. A melee ensued and we fell to the ground in a struggling heap with the Inspector expertly pinning and immobilising a pair of thrashing legs. Unfortunately they were mine, not the offenders."
Tag: chiefconstable
Many thanks for your Happy New Year messages to myself, colleague Alys, and other contributors of our website.
I've been getting back into the swing of things today and, as usual, I've been using our shared reader [what's this?] to highlight some local issues on the web I think you'll find interesting.
Continue reading "Right, back to business and other links [05-01-09]"
As 2008 draws to a close, amid all the bad news about unemployment and the credit crunch it's good to see some local people being named in the New Year Honours list. Among them is Gay Harris from Rhyl, who formed the town's Gay Harris Dancers more than 40 years ago, and Linda Johnson, for work for palliative care in Flintshire.
There will be an exclusive concert by 'Welsh rock legends' The Alarm on BBC Radio Wales' Evening Show tonight from 7pm onwards and you'll also be able to listen to it for seven days afterwards online on BBC iPlayer. The band, whose lead singer, Mike Peters, comes from Prestatyn, played their first gig 27 years ago!
Thanks to you all for your contributions to the site over the last year - you've really made it a success - so please take a well earned rest and we'll see you after the festivities!
Both myself and Alys will be taking a few days away so we'll blog again soon.
In the meantime, here's our review of 2008 which we've pulled together by looking back through the weekly newsletters we send out via email to subscribers.
Hwyl am y tro - Bye for now.
Highlights and quick links to the local stories and blogs we're following today using our shared reader [what's this?]
Daily Post columnist Tom Bodden has written a tongue-in-cheek Christmas song on the back of the controversy over AMs' expense claims.
The Evening Leader follow up on our story of asylum seeker Farid Boumerdassi who is awaiting deportation and claims he has been separated from his family, who are thought to have been flown back to Algeria.
And the funeral is being held today of the family killed in a fire at their home at Maesbrook, Shropshire, in August, reports BBC News Shropshire.
Ah, so it's the way people walk en masse over the footbridge at Eagles Meadow that starts the wobbling feeling.
North Wales Police and other forces in Wales are pushing the button today on interactive maps on their websites to highlight problems at ward level.
Just go to the force homepage and input your postcode to see what their priorities are in your area or scroll over the map to look at crime statistics for your community - it makes for interesting reading:-
As BBC News Local was reporting on a fire last night at disused Matthews Church, Saltney Ferry, local people like Rogueelement were on the scene taking photos of the unfolding drama.
Highlights and quick links to the local stories and blogs we're following today using our shared reader [what's this?]
Graffiti is vandalism - not art - Deputy Chief Constable Blog
He's obviously no fan of the much celebrated Banksy and citing research which shows areas affected by graffiti are more likely to suffer from anti social behaviour, and calls for it to be stamped out in N Wales.
Continue reading "Banksy, Burberry caps, and other links [11-12-08]"
Paraglider John, aka Spiraldiver, took to the skies over Llangollen on Saturday and shares these photos showing his amazing view over the area.
Podcast - NE Wales Update
uploaded 1pm Fridays
This week, Good Evening Wales talks to a man from Ruthin caught up in the Mumbai terrorist attacks; the Richard Evans phone discusses the plan to make offenders on community service orders wear high visibility vests; And reporter Tom Singleton meets the young offenders doing ironing to re-pay their debt to society. Meanwhile, Jamie and Louise get the low down on locally reared buffalo meat and a Rhyl plumber has the recipe for happiness.
Another Wenglish entry as dwi'n dysgu Cymraeg [I'm learning Welsh]
Dysgwyr: Sut mae'r Cymraeg yn mynd? Dach chi'n defynddio Cymraeg mewn gwaith?
[Learners: How's your Welsh? Do you use Welsh in work?]
Gret i'w weld bod Tesco, Broughton, yn cefnogi defnyddio'r Cymraeg mewn gwaith. And a workplace right on the border too.
[Great to hear that Tesco, Broughton, are supporting the use of Welsh in work.]
Dan ni - dysgwyr - yn defnyddio Cymraeg trwy'r dydd yn ein swyddfa ni, pethau fel; "T'isio paned", "Sut oedd neithiwr", ac ati pan byddan ni'n siarad efo ein cydweithwyr Cymraeg ni.
[We - learners - use Welsh through the day in our office, things like; "Do you want a cuppa?"; "How was last night?", etc when speaking with our Welsh colleagues.]
Be amdana chi?
[What about you?]
Hwyl am y tro
[Bye for now]
Updated Dec 04 1:47pmHighlights and quick links to some of the stories and blogs we're following today using our shared reader [what's this?]
£350m boost for capital projects - BBC News | Wales
Hospital reorganisation, schools and affordable housing will all benefit from a new £350m fund, announced by the assembly government. I maybe wrong, but the only specific spending being targetted on our area is £5m for a school in Wrexham [even though the council don't know what it's for!] and £1m to promote Welsh food in Conwy.
Plus, in another round of spending:
New road and rail links for North - Daily Post
Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones has announced £203m of new spending to improve north-south road links and improve rail links [£20m investment] between Wrexham and Chester.
But the "gateway to Wales" A494/A55 improvements at Aston Hill will be on a back burner until 2014 and even then it will only be for re-examination.
Continue reading "Assembly hands out millions [guess how much we get?] and other links [03-12-08]"
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