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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 . 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.

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There will be an exclusive concert by 'Welsh rock legends' The Alarm on Â鶹Éç Radio Wales' Evening Show tonight from 7pm onwards and you'll also be able to listen to it for seven days afterwards online on Â鶹Éç iPlayer. The band, whose lead singer, Mike Peters, comes from Prestatyn, played their first gig 27 years ago!

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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.

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Highlights and quick links to the local stories and blogs we're following today using our [what's this?]

Daily Post columnist has written a tongue-in-cheek Christmas song on the back of the controversy over .

The follow up on of asylum seeker 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 .

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Ah, so it's the way people walk en masse over the footbridge at Eagles Meadow that starts the wobbling feeling.

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and other forces in Wales are pushing the button today on on their websites to highlight problems at ward level.

Just go to the and input your postcode to see what their priorities are in your area or to look at crime statistics for your community - it makes for interesting reading:-

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As was reporting on a fire last night at disused Matthews Church, Saltney Ferry, local people like were on the scene taking photos of the unfolding drama.

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Highlights and quick links to the local stories and blogs we're following today using our [what's this?]

- Deputy Chief Constable Blog
He's obviously no fan of the much celebrated and 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.

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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.

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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?]

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]

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Updated Dec 04 1:47pmHighlights and quick links to some of the stories and blogs we're following today using our [what's this?]

- Â鶹Éç 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 !] and £1m to promote Welsh food in Conwy.

Plus, in another round of spending:

- 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.

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- Plaid Cymru in Wrexham
The Plaid councillors hit back after last night's council meeting which discussed the NT's plans to develop land for housing near Erddig Hall. [Other reports: | ]

to see other stories, including photos of switching on the Christmas lights at Save the Family's Plas Bellin Hall, Northop Hall.

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- North Wales Police Press Releases
- moelfamau.co.uk

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