Podcast - NE Wales Update
This week Good Evening Wales is at court as two serving police officers from Prestatyn are sentenced for cruelty to their pet dogs; Denbighshire Council is criticised for serious failings in a report by the Auditor General for Wales and Richard Evans throws open the phone lines to discuss the increased use of tasers by our police offficers, following a trial in North Wales. Roy Noble talks to an award winning private eye from Mold; we hear how Holywell could become a new centre for walkers and Sian Pari Huws discovers how a rabbit from Flintshire has been given her own purpose built wheelchair.
Wrexham's Eagles Meadow development has been open nearly a month now and continues to generate lots of conflicting views. Many people have expressed concern about the number of empty shops in the town centre, with lots of businesses relocating to Eagles Meadow, and there's no denying the number of empty premises continues to grow. If Woolworths, as, sadly, looks quite likely, also closes down that will be another big shop left empty. What's to become of the town centre?
Yesterday contributor S from Wrexham commented that "Pubs are closing in the villages around Wrexham with people only visiting their local at the weekend". Today this story, 'Villages suffer as pubs disappear', featuring a pub in Suffolk, seems to confirm that this is happening across the country. Is your local pub surviving and what effect do you think its demise would have on village life?
'Poorly bunny gets a wheelchair', 'missing cockatiel calls home' and 'dog's pub ban lifted'.
With all the economic doom and gloom around at the minute, there has been a bit of a run on cute animal stories.
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After Kingspan's announcement yesterday, here's a breakdown of the firms axing jobs in NE Wales this year:
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A total of 28 jobs are to be axed by flooring firm Kingspan, Greenfield Business Park, Holywell, says tonight's Evening Leader. The news comes after weeks of speculation when it was thought up to 50 jobs were at risk.
Tag: jobs
Podcast - NE Wales Update
This week, there's bad news on the jobs front as Corus and First Milk announce redundancies, Radio Wales commemorates the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice through letters written home from The Front from soldiers, including Private Thomas Lloyd from Wrexham, and a mother tells of the horrifying moment when her daughter was hit in the face by a firwork. Pensioners give a bunch of youngsters a run for their money on the Nintendo Wii and Matthew Richards reports on how a dog - banned from her local pub for chewing up beer mats - has won a reprieve..
Quote of the day - Rhyl, by Ben:
"I'm 27 and have lived in Rhyl and a few other local towns all my life on and off. I never really knew its history until I had to research it for a university assignment. Seeing all these incredible pictures of its past glory and hearing all these sad accounts of the good memories it evokes and the good place it used to be actually saddens me. I have never known this Rhyl I see in the pictures or hear spoken of, I have known only the crime, unemployment and horrible bleak dilapidated atmosphere that hangs over it now and has since my birth in 1981 at which point I gather the decline was well underway.
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There has always been a lot of love for our mountain [technically it's only a hill] and that affection stretches as far as Merseyside where an event is being held this weekend to get locals there to share stories and memories for a new book.
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The gloom continues with news that workers at Shotton's Corus plant - which announced 95 job losses last week - is halving production affecting 60 steel packers [employed by contractors M J Baillis] to two shifts a week.
UPDATE: 93 jobs to go at Wrexham milk factory
Tags: Jobs - Creditcrunch
Podcast - NE Wales Update
This week, reporter Tom Singleton gets a tour around the new Eagles Meadow shopping centre in Wrexham; the funeral for a family of six, killed in a motorway crash, is held in Llandudno and Barack Obama fever reaches the Richard Evans programme. Good Morning Wales gets reaction following the resignation of Denbighshire County Council's Chief Executive, Ian Miller; a former landgirl from Rhyl tells Rob Thomas about the book she's written detailing her experiences and Roy Noble gets to sample the UK's top sausage - which is made in Flintshire.
More bad news with three local firms announcing redundancies: Corus, 95 jobs at Shotton; 18 at Deeside steel firm Ancon Clark; and concern jobs could be going at Kingspan, Greenfield.
Tag: Jobs
BBC Wales's new series, Hidden Histories, is uncovering some fascinating stories, the latest being how Thomas Telford built the fabulous Pontcysyllte Aqueduct [watch here].
The programme uses graphics and computer images to show just how Telford's men built the 116ft (35m) tall bridge and its 18 piers over 10 years.
Next week's episode features another local landmark, the 9th Century Pillar of Eliseg, and how night photography is being used to recover any fragments of the eroded inscription on the monument.
Have you seen the growing list of local employers making redundancies? We've been bookmarking [what's this?] stories of job losses affecting NE Wales this year - and it doesn't look good.
But this isn't the worst of it because these stories don't show us behind the headlines and statistics. They don't show the families affected and the implications the credit crunch is having on all parts of local life.
We're taking a look at the credit crunch close to home and how it's affecting us all. Let us know if there is something you think we should be featuring.
It's amazing how inventive we can become when we have to. Just look at the Coal House women managing the ration book and purse strings in war-time Wales to see how it can be done. But back to reality...
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There have been more twists and turns in the saga around whether the National Trust should sell off some land around Erddig for housing.
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First there was the dissent over plans to film TV ghost programme Most Haunted at Denbigh Hospital - which came mostly from [local] people close to the hospital.
And then followed the support from people outside the area - who only knew about the hospital because of the controversial programme.
Now, a Save Denbigh Asylum petition has been set up.
| 11:53 UK time, Friday, 28 November 2008
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