Podcast - NE Wales Update
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This week, Cheshire police say the key to the murder of a man in Parkgate, Wirral, may lie in Wrexham; the Maelor Hospital opens a new centre for cancer patients; reporter Rob Thomas goes down on the allotment to find out why they're becoming so popular; Bangor on Dee races mark their 150th anniversary; and an artist finds herself an unusual canvas.
One minute we're asking more people to visit our region ['Shush, or they'll all want to come!'] and the next we're worried they may like it too much and want to stay [Parts of North Wales are 'suburbs of Liverpool' - Daily Post]
Should securing inward investment have to come with a price - such as driving up the price of housing - or can we have it all ways?
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UPDATES: Hospital lost 100 patient data disks - St David's Day Parade - Flint: Flak flying! - Audio archive: Miners' Strike - Town Talk - Racecourse celebrates 150 years - And more
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Have you ever found yourself peering into that taxidermist's shop in Llangollen? Well, Sue's photo captures perfectly that strange stillness of life that should be so very animated.
Sue's photo reminds me of a scene from Bagpuss which, whilst a little scary [to a child], was equally engrossing.
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UPDATES: Four firms announce cuts - Two big cat sightings - Pancake races - Podcast - Seasonal scenes - Wrexham FC hopes - Village pits - Town Talk - Burlesque dancing
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More job losses, workers being consulted over redundancies and those forced on to shorter working weeks are being announced on a daily basis.
If anything it seems to be getting worse here in NE Wales.
And now I'm sure we all know someone who has been hit hard by the credit crunch. Only last week I blogged, click here for a free smile after yet more stories of redundancies.
And still [1] they [2] come [3] in [4].
Tag: jobs
Podcast - NE Wales Update
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This week - Tom Singleton is on the riverbank finding out about plans to clean up our waterways; Matthew Richards crosses swords with young fencers in Wrexham and we ask if people are offended by terms like "old codger" and "fossil". Wrexham Assistant Manager Terry Darracott hopes the Dragons can stay in the play off zone; Tracy Cardwell visits the newly opened Scala Cinema in Prestatyn and how's your spelling? Apparently our standards are slipping.
What a week. Amid the doom and gloom, we're surely due for something to raise a smile? Animal stories usually do the trick...
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- Goat sets up home in the staff room
- Giant snowman appears on Halkyn Common
- Rhuallt crematorium opposition intensifies
- New fears over more cheese plant jobs
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Podcast - NE Wales Update
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This week Good Evening Wales reports from Buckley where controversial plans for a landfill site have been given the go ahead; Carol Vorderman explains why she's heading the Tory party's new maths taskforce and reporter Tom Singleton joins the lifeboat crew in Rhyl, which was the busiest station in Wales last year. Rob Thomas meets people objecting to plans for a new crematorium in Rhuallt and Eurovision hopeful Mark Evans chats to Bethan Rhys Roberts on Good Morning Wales after he was pipped at the post to become the UK's next entrant.
Highlights and quick links to the local stories and blogs we're following today using our shared reader [what's this?] which include:
- New prison planned for Gwynedd, 1,000 jobs and £17m
- Dean Saunders: stop squabbling over Wrexham's Racecourse plans
- Antisocial behaviour figures are out of control
- Wrexham Maelor and Glan Clwyd fight to free up beds
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Highlights and quick links to the local stories and blogs we're following today using our shared reader [what's this?] which include:
- A55 truck stop campaigners head for County Hall
- Lidl promises £100,000 to help Mold's business
- Mixed reaction to Denbigh wine bar proposal
- We'll buy unsold North Wales homes say housing associations
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Gerald Davison was the first to respond to our call first thing this morning asking how you were coping with the snow.
Gerald's a member of the North East Wales Search and Rescue who are assisting the Welsh Ambulance Service during the bad weather. In fact, this photo was taken at 3am during a call-out.
I was reading this morning that www.northwalesborderlands.co.uk, a partnership promoting tourism in Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire, is to have a big push to bring more Britons to our area this year. [don't mention the credit crunch]
As I was reading the article I was thinking 'about time too', because it has always struck me when walking the Clwydian Range just how void of people the area is. I grew up in the Midlands and when we went walking in the Peak District the world and his dog was there.
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Local radio station www.marchersound.co.uk is used by schools in NE Wales to inform parents when schools are closed due to the snow, along with BBC Radio Wales BBC Radio Cymru, and text updates via the BBC News Wales website.
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|11:05 UK time, Friday, 27 February 2009
