Flintshire, Wales News

Smoke has been still billowing from the Greenfield Business Park near Holywell with North Wales Fire Service saying they would be there "for some time yet". Trains have been disrupted and the A548 coast road is closed from Flint to Prestatyn, with smoke also blowing across the A55.

A resident near the scene of a huge factory fire in Flintshire explains how his windows have been shaking during a series of more than 50 explosions.

It has been made possible by a 21st Century Schools investment from the Welsh Government and Flintshire Council, billed as one of the largest single community education projects in Wales.

A SCHOOL library will be left bare after thousands of on-loan books were recalled - in a move described as a 'punishment' to students.

FLINTSHIRE patients soon won't be able to use the Countess of Chester Hospital unless it's an emergency or for specialist treatment, it is feared.

A SINGER from Mynydd Isa who has first-hand experience of the difficulties experienced by those living with dementia is helping raise funds for the Alzheimer's Society.

Flintshire has been part of a campaign since 2007 to see a new prison built in the region but has no suitable sites.

A 51-year-old man died in the crash on Eaton Road at the rear of the Portal Business Park at 12.45am FLINTSHIRE'S coastal rangers have seen a massive increase in people enjoying the county's coastline and downloading maps from the BBC website after it featured on TV.

At a full council meeting yesterday, members met to elect a leader, as well as a new chairman and vice-chairman. Councillor Alex Aldridge nominated Labour councillor Aaron Shotton to return as leader during what he called the "great challenges" local government now faced.

Firefighters from Llangollen pulled a woman in a car from to safety after she got stuck in floodwater on the A5 between Froncysyllte and Chirk at 7.10am. Crews were also called to Lambourne Court in Gwersyllt at 6.50am and Hightown Road, Wrexham, at 7.47am to pump away floodwater.

RETAINED fire engines were unavailable to help tackle blazes a quarter of the time in Wrexham last year, latest figures reveal.

Members of the Ewloe Green Action Group will be gathering outside County Hall in Mold before a meeting of Flintshire Council's planning and development control committee, which starts at 1pm.

Terry Jacklin received a Citation for Gallantry in 1984 for his role in the rescue of the crew of the Heron 2, a boat sinking in gale force winds off Mostyn.

DENBIGHSHIRE will be the biggest loser in North Wales under the welfare reforms, with the county standing to be deprived of 34 million.

PUPILS and staff from Flintshire's nine smallest schools joined forces for a trek to the summit of Moel Famau.

A POLICE officer was bitten five times on his hand by a man he was trying to arrest - and now needs hospital tests.

The Welsh Local Government Association has warned the days of "small scale savings" are over, with funding for sports facilities, libraries, children's centres and museums at risk Next month's Treasury spending review could trigger violent cuts to services provided by local authorities across Wales and leave ministers in Cardiff Bay with A 80m less ... (more)

A FORMER soldier who bombarded his ex-girlfriend with abusive texts was given a life-long restraining order forbidding to go within 100 metres of her home and her workplace.

Martin Andrew Jones, of Plas Dewi, Well Street, Holywell, pleaded guilty to attempted theft at St Winefride's Presbytery in Holywell on March 19 and going equipped for theft on the same day when he was found by police with gloves, torch, tent peg and scissors.

Arthur John Griffiths, 62, drove his Audi A3 when he was more than four times the drink drive limit, Flintshire magistrates were told.