Llangollen, Wales News

At half midnight we warned that the heavy rain that was belting down was not likely to shift overnight, and true to that it carried on throughout the morning causing issues in and around Wrexham.

Firefighters from Llangollen pulled a woman in a car to safety after she got stuck in floodwater on the A5 between Froncysyllte and Chirk at 7.10am. The Environment Agency has issued two flood alerts in the area, the first being around the River Clwyd from Clocaenog to Rhuddlan.

Saturn, which carried cheese to Manchester 100 years ago, is the only floating example of a horse-drawn Shropshire Union fly-boat. She has been restored to her former glory and made her way from Chirk to Llangollen where she will be displayed.

The women's team from Hafan Shaolin Cymru based in Ruabon impressed crowds at Llangollen's Women's Festival of Music and Arts on Saturday.

A PRIVATE school which was in financial difficulties just three years ago is planning to buy an empty town centre pub.

LEADING North Wales and Shropshire law firm GHP Legal, which has offices in Wrexham, Llangollen and Oswestry, has appointed a new equity partner.

Angling industry representatives have objected to the timing of the sporting challenge which was being planned for the autumn by David Manby of Llangollen.

Bloom is a free course that aims to improve mood and general well-being through gentle gardening, mindfulness and good food.

Richard Adam Reece, 18, of Lord Street in Oswestry, was originally due to go before Shrewsbury Crown Court next week, but the case was brought forward.

Cardiff City face Bolton Wanderers in their last home game of their glorious Championship season at 3pm Saturday and will lift the trophy after the match.

The victim, named locally as 21-year-old Danny Jones, from Chirk, was taken to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital by ambulance but was pronounced dead a short time later.

Tesni Edwards, 14, a pupil at Ysgol Dinas Bran in Llangollen, was found at the foot of stairs on Sunday at about 1.30pm. She told the Leader: "She'd sent me a text the night before saying I could pick her up at 12.15pm, so when I got there at 12.30pm and there was no answer I knew something was wrong.

TWO members of a German youth choir will make an emotional return to Llangollen 60 years after they sang there as schoolgirls.

PENSIONER Nan Hughes has used pedal power to raise more than 20,000 for worthy causes.

A STEAM train took to the track again after 40 years, thanks to a family's personal restoration project.

DOZENS of new jobs are coming to the Dee Valley and Bala. One of the UK's largest high street chains, The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, has just begun advertising jobs for a store in Llangollen.

A post-mortem examination was held at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, but investigations are continuing to determine how Tesni died.

Tesni Edwards, 14, from Llandrillo, near Corwen, was flown by air ambulance to Wrexham Maelor Hospital after an incident near Llangollen on Sunday, and later died.

Just how can a player who has torn a hamstring badly enough to keep him sidelined for six weeks fly down the wing in a Six Nations match? The iconic New York hotel where Dylan Thomas was staying before his death is the focus of a new stage production by Cardiff-based company Elin Haf Davies is one of the judges of the Giving Young Women a Voice ... (more)