Flick through these highlights from our photo share group on Flickr.com. The group's called North Wales Street Scenes and basically they're images of the locality as we know it - so not your typical chocolate box images of Wales, rolling countryside and the like, we're looking for urban landscapes. The photos are contributed by other users of Flickr as well as ourselves. And you can add your photos.
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]"
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.
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:-
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.
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]"
'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.
After Kingspan's announcement yesterday, here's a breakdown of the firms axing jobs in NE Wales this year:
Continue reading "Latest redundancies take the region's cuts to 977 jobs"
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