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Archives for February 2009

Podcast [27-02-09]

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 11:05 UK time, Friday, 27 February 2009

Podcast - NE Wales Update
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This week, say the key to the murder of a man in Parkgate, Wirral, may lie in Wrexham; the Maelor Hospital opens a new ; reporter Rob Thomas goes down on the allotment to find out why they're becoming so popular; mark their ; and an .

We're no Liverpool suburb and other links [26-02-09]

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 09:45 UK time, Thursday, 26 February 2009

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 [ - 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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Miners' audio archive, St David's Day parade and newsletter [25-02-09]

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 09:34 UK time, Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Copy of weekly newsletter sent out to subscribers
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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Photo: Still life on the High St

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 09:27 UK time, Monday, 23 February 2009

Have you ever found yourself peering into that taxidermist's shop in Llangollen? Well, 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.

Big cats, burlesque dancing, newsletter and podcast [20-02-09]

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 10:35 UK time, Friday, 20 February 2009

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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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Three days in and four firms announce cuts

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 16:01 UK time, Wednesday, 18 February 2009

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 [1] [2] [3] [4].

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Podcast [13-02-09]

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Alys - Web Team Alys - Web Team | 15:05 UK time, Friday, 13 February 2009

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.

Click here to get a free smile!

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 10:14 UK time, Friday, 13 February 2009

What a week. Amid the and , 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 and other links [11-02-09]

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 12:51 UK time, Wednesday, 11 February 2009

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

- 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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Anger over separate landfill and crematorium plans - podcast [06-02-09]

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 11:13 UK time, Friday, 6 February 2009

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 and reporter Tom Singleton joins the , which was the busiest station in Wales last year. Rob Thomas meets people 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.

No prison for us, stop squabbling over Racecourse plans and what an anti social bunch

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 10:43 UK time, Friday, 6 February 2009

Highlights and quick links to the local stories and blogs we're following today using our [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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New supermarket, wine bar and truckstop - local plans get your back up

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 11:20 UK time, Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Highlights and quick links to the local stories and blogs we're following today using our [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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While you were sleeping

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 10:37 UK time, Tuesday, 3 February 2009

ambulance, by Gerald Davison

was the first to respond to asking how you were coping with the snow.

Gerald's a member of the who are assisting the during the bad weather. In fact, this photo was taken at 3am during a call-out.

'Shush, or they'll all want to come!'

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 09:08 UK time, Tuesday, 3 February 2009

I was that , 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 just how void of people the area is. I grew up in the Midlands and when we went walking in the the world and his dog was there.

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Where's the best place to find out about school closures?

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 08:15 UK time, Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Local radio station is used by schools in NE Wales to inform parents when schools are closed due to the snow, along with Â鶹Éç Radio Wales Â鶹Éç Radio Cymru, and text updates via the website.

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New flag causes controversy at police HQ and other links [02-02-09]

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 12:31 UK time, Monday, 2 February 2009

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

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