Gwynedd County, Wales News

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal , Odd News on November 12, 2009 at 12:37 pm A hungry dog in Llanfairfechan, Wales set fire to a home and caused 6,000 in damage.

ARMED police threw a cordon around a pub amid fears a gunman was inside, on the eve of a Royal visit to the area.

"FOR those of you watching in black and white, the pink ball is just behind the green." With those words in the early 1970s, snooker commentator Ted Lowe made light of the plight of people watching some of Britain's early colour broadcasts on their black and white television sets.

THE government's search for a site in North Wales to hold a 1,500 capacity prison is little more than a "cosmetic exercise" launched in the wake of the collapse of the Caernarfon scheme, the Tories claimed last night.

A HUNGRY pooch looking for food set fire to his owner's kitchen - causing 6,000 damage.

Members of a mountain rescue team say the number of call-outs they will handle this year will almost double.

A MP was forced to think twice about buying a Remembrance Day poppy after she pledged to live on the basic state pension for a week.

A 40 fine imposed on a motorist who collided with a train on a level crossing has been criticised by a group representing the railway.

A WELSH language protester vowed he won't give a penny compensation to two superstores after he painted them with slogans.

A SCHIZOPHRENIC who rang an out-of-hours doctors service saying he'd run out of medication died with 93% burns after setting himself on fire, an inquest heard yesterday.

STEPHANIE Booth has a life story that TV and film companies are queuing up to tell and get a slice of.

A butcher from Powys rewrote the rules of etiquette when he met the Queen to receive an honour - by wearing a pen behind his ear.

PLANS for a Tesco superstore in Caernarfon that could create 275 new jobs have been withdrawn.

FIRE FIGHTERS were called to a blaze involving a large number of scrap cars at a metal recycling plant near Corwen late on on Wednesday afternoon.

TWO hero cops rushed a crash victim to hospital in their squad car after they found him staggering with blood pouring from his head.

A Conservative MP says the UK government is more likely to build a prison in England than north Wales, where there are too few inmates.

AN elderly woman was rescued by fire fighters after her car plunged 20-feet off a North Wales road.

One man has died in a collision at Sully in the Vale of Glamorgan, say South Wales Police.

A WELSH Guard has spoken of his despair after seeing a fellow North Wales soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

RESIDENTS on a housing estate in Porthmadog are celebrating after Gwynedd councillors threw out plans for a recycling unit to be built near their homes.