Daily Post (North Wales)
NO PASSPORT, NO SAILING
THE first blind runner to complete Ras yr Wyddfa (the Snowdon Race) has handed over the money he raised for the benefit of members of the North Wales Society for the Blind. Gareth Davies, 52, from Abergavenny, successfully completed the challenging...
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Plain-clothes cops target e-scooters and bikes
OFFICERS have carried out a targeted crackdown against the antisocial use of e-scooters, e-bikes, and off-road motorcycles across communities in Wrexham. The weekend operation, conducted by members of the North Wales Police Wrexham Rural Neighbourhood...
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BEACH DOG BAN REVOLT
HUNDREDS of people turned out to protest against a proposed ban on dogs on a popular beach. A permanent dog ban on additional parts of the beach at Rhos-onSea has been proposed. Opponents claim the exclusion of dogs from the most popular section of...
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BEAUTY SPOT SUFFERING IN ILLEGAL CAMPING NIGHTMARE
ONE of Wales’ most beautiful areas is being scarred by the behaviour of illegal campers, it’s been claimed. As well as littering, groups of aggressive visitors are lighting fires, damaging trees and using Llyn Gwynant as a toilet, according to the...
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MAN JAILED AFTER DOG INJURED 3 INCLUDING POLICEMAN
A MAN was jailed after his dog injured a police officer and two other victims in Wrexham. The incident happened at Ruabon Services. Philip Hughes, 40, appeared at Wrexham Magistrates Court on Tuesday. He pleaded guilty to three counts of owning or...
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RIVER ON BRINK North Wales water supplies could be reduced to prevent the Severn drying up as fears grow despite heavy spells of rain
BRITAIN’S longest river is at risk of running dry as regulators seek interventions designed to safeguard ecosystems and drinking water supplies. As part of the proposed measures, households in northeast Wales could see abstracted water supplies drop...
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Thunderstorm and local flood warning issued
THE Met Office yesterday issued a 15-hour thunderstorm warning for North Wales, which remains in force until 10am today. It covers part or all of all six North Wales counties (see map). A Met Office spokesperson yesterday said: “Heavy showers will...
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ANGER AT STUNT ON SCORCHED HILLSIDE MESSAGE TO PM PAINTED ON MOUNTAIN
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WOMAN IN A WHEELCHAIR SERIOUSLY HURT IN HIT-AND-RUN
A WOMAN in a wheelchair has been seriously injured in a hitand-run. The collision, involving a flatbed van, happened in Caia Park, Wrexham, on Saturday. North Wales Police said the driver of the van has not yet been identified. They are urging anyone...
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TWO DEAD AS PLANE CRASHES IN REMOTE AREA
TWO people have died following a light aircraft crash in Gwynedd. North Wales Police were alerted that a light aircraft departing from an airfield in England had failed to reach Caernarfon Airport at the expected time. A multi-agency air and ground...
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JELLYFISH SHOCKER
COASTAL visitors, swimmers and dog walkers on Anglesey have been warned to be vigilant after a spate of nasty jellyfish stings. Multiple sightings have been made of a late-season arrival with a fearsome reputation for delivering painful stings when...
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TRAGIC FIND IN TOWN CENTRE
POLICE searching for a missing man have found a body in the centre of Holyhead. North Wales Police yesterday put out an appeal amid concerns for the missing man. Martin Maguire, 60, had been missing from the Holyhead area. They said there were...
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BAILED AFTER TELLING POLICE HE’D CHOP UP ACCUSER
A JUDGE has demanded an explanation after a “very dangerous” man accused of rape by a woman was bailed by police – despite his threats in custody to “chop her into little pieces”. Judge Simon Mills, the senior circuit judge in North Wales, declared at...
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FAMILY ‘RIPPED APART’ BY DOUBLE TRAGEDY
A MUM died on her way to North Wales to identify her son’s body in a heartbreaking double tragedy. Dad-of-three Andrew Tinsley, 46, died in what was described as “a tragic accident” in the River Dee in Llangollen on July 10. His mum Carol Tinsley,...
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TRAGIC FIND IN HUGE LAKEmissing/ SEARCH
THE body of a man has been recovered following a major search of an Eryri lake. The alarm was first raised on Sunday evening at Llyn Geirionydd, a 45-acre lake above Trefriw. Emergency services were called at approximately 7.10pm that evening after...
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‘SEND IN COPTERS NOW TO FIGHT FIRE’
ANGER is welling across North Wales over the absence of aerial support for firefighters tackling wildfires in difficult mountainous terrain. A water-bombing helicopter was approved last week but so far there have been no signs of it arriving in the...
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CLOSE CALL ON RUNWAY
TWO occupants of a light aircraft escaped unharmed when their plane reportedly “flipped” at a North Wales airport. The pair walked away relatively unscathed from the crash at Hawarden Airport, Flintshire. Emergency services swarmed the facility on...
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THE LONELY ‘TREE’
A MYSTERIOUS tree has seemingly sprouted on a beautiful sandy beach acclaimed as one of the best in North Wales. For several weeks, its strippedbare trunk has been turning heads at Rhos-on-Sea in Conwy. Standing around 8ft, it cuts an aloof figure on...
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DRIVER FACES JAIL AFTER CRASH THAT ENDED IN LYDIA’S DEATH
A DRIVER has admitted causing the death of a woman in a two-vehicle collision that left two further individuals seriously hurt. Lydia La Polla passed away in hospital after a crash in Wrexham in March last year. Her husband, Robert, and a teenage...
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WALL OF FIRE OVER 2,000 ACRES, BUT NO COPTERS TO HELP UNTIL NEXT WEEK/
A TWO kilometre-wide wall of fire is sweeping across open countryside in North Wales. The wildfire in Rhinogydd mountains near Harlech first started on Sunday but reignited on Wednesday and continued to rage through yesterday across 2,000...
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COPTERS CALL TO FIGHT BLAZE
HELICOPTER support is needed to control the spread of a raging wildfire, fearful residents said yesterday. The blaze on the Rhinogydd mountains above the village of Llanbedr, near Harlech ignited over the weekend but has flared fiercely today in the...
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DETECTIVE ACCUSED OF ‘UPSKIRTING’ A CHILD
A NORTH Wales Police detective charged with “upskirting” a child appeared in court yesterday. Detective Constable Lee HarsheyJones was arrested following an alleged incident in the Colwyn Bay area on Thursday, June 11. Harshey-Jones, 45, of Rhos on...
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BLAZE SEEN FROM SPACE
A WOMAN recounted the harrowing moment she awoke to a fierce blaze raging across the mountainside above her North Wales home. A major incident was declared in Conwy on Sunday evening following a devastating fire at Sychnant Pass, which continued to...
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MAJOR FIRE SEES HOMES EVACUATED
A MAJOR incident was declared by emergency services tackling a large-scale wildfire near Sychnant Pass on Conwy Mountain. The fire, which had been raging since yesterday morning, saw homes evacuated and residents in Dwygyfylchi and Penmaenmawr told to...
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SCHOOL SORROW AS PUPIL DIES
AN Anglesey primary school says its community has been left “heartbroken” after the death of a young pupil. Ysgol Cybi - a Church in Wales school in Holyhead - posted that Evan Taylor had passed away over the weekend. They are fundraising to support...
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TRIBUTE TO MAN KILLED IN LAKE TRAGEDY
TRIBUTES have been paid to a 21-year-old man who died in a lake tragedy. Yesterday North Wales Police confirmed that a body had been recovered from Llyn Geirionydd near Trefriw on Tuesday night. This followed a major operation involving the police,...
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‘JUSTICE FOR OUR GRAN’
THE last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom will receive a conditional pardon, though she will not be exonerated, David Lammy has confirmed. Ruth Ellis, who was born in Rhyl, was executed in 1955 after shooting dead David Blakely. The Deputy...
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‘CHILLING’ SPEEDS ON 20MPH STRETCHES
MORE than 30,000 UK motorists were caught driving at 30mph or faster on roads with a 20mph limit last year, an investigation has found. Data obtained by the RAC included cases of extreme speeding, with a driver clocked at 89mph on a 20mph stretch of...
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‘BLAST’ HOMES RIPPED APART
FIRE crews yesterday tackled a major blaze and reported “explosion” that has seen properties ripped apart. The incident happened at around 12.30pm yesterday afternoon on the Peulwys estate in Old Colwyn. Residents reported hearing police and fire...
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TINDER CONMAN FLEECED VICTIMS OF £70K
A “PSYCHOPATHIC” conman from Denbighshire claimed he was a former special forces soldier turned multi-millionaire cancer sufferer, a court heard. Joseph Gibson, 35, took tens of thousands of pounds from his victims. He met two of them on Tinder and...
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DRIVER SPED AT 167MPH IN A55 CHASE
CYNGOR Gwynedd is being asked to approve a new waste and recycling “vision” covering the next five years to reduce rubbish and up the level of household recycling - to help avoid substantial Welsh Government fines. The authority’s cabinet will...
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LIFE IN JAIL FOR ‘SENSELESS’ MURDER OF NEIGHBOUR
A MAN who murdered his neighbour on Christmas Day following a feud over noise has been jailed for life. James Hughes, 67, of The Old Palace Flats, St Asaph, murdered Harold Turner, 68, while recording the attack using a Dictaphone worn around his...
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SHOCK AS PRIVATE SCHOOL TO SHUT DOWN
RUTHIN School - one of the oldest in the UK - has informed staff that it is closing. Staff and pupils were yesterday afternoon informed that the school would shut. They were then given the devastating news that the school would shut at the end of this...
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RED CARD FOR FLAGS
WELSH independence activists have removed England and Union flags from lampposts near the Cae Ras stadium, where Wrexham AFC play their home games. Mudiad Eryr Wen (MEW), which describes itself as a “grassroots youth movement for an independent...
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Independence campaigners set to march
THOUSANDS of people calling for independence are expected to descend on a Welsh town. An event has been announced by YesCymru for Aberystwyth on Saturday, September 26 at 1pm, as the movement gets ready to hold its first march in Mid Wales. This will...
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MOTORBIKER DIES IN CRASH WITH CAR
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a fatal collision between a car and a motorbike on Anglesey at the weekend. The accident happened in the Burwen area at midday on Saturday and the motorbiker sadly died at the scene. A North Wales Police...
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MURDER INQUIRY AS MAN FOUND DEAD
A MURDER probe has been launched after a man was found dead at a property in Wrexham. North Wales Police said officers were called to a house on Bryn y Ffynnon in Brymbo on Thursday after concerns were raised for the welfare of the occupant, who had...
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N.WALES BAKES IN ‘EXTREME’ HEAT BLAST
“EXTREME” North Wales temperatures in North Wales yesterday caused school closures, train service disruption and led to council operations being curtailed with the mercury hitting 34C across large parts of the region yesterday. A new record high...
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KEEP COOL & CARRY ON
RAIL passengers in North Wales faced disruption yesterday after severe weather forced the complete closure of the lines between Llandudno and Blaenau Ffestiniog and Wrexham and Chester Transport for Wales confirmed that all services along the route...
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MASKED BURGLARS’ £135,000 VEHICLE RAID
Breck Williams was jailed for his role in the burglary, which the victim described as extremely distressing
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FLASHER TRIED TO DRAG WOMAN INTO BUSHES
A FLASHER “pounced” on a terrified woman and tried to drag her into bushes while she was walking her dog in a park. Tyler Evans forcefully grabbed the victim’s coat, ripping it in the process, as he launched the “sexually motivated” attack in Parc...
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HEAT IS ON AS AMBER WARNING EXTENDED
AN amber extreme heat warning has been extended across much of Wales as forecasters warn temperatures could reach record-breaking levels this week. The Met Office has widened its warning area to include much of Wales, alongside much of southern...
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MURDER PROBE AS INJURED MAN DIES
A MURDER probe has been launched after a man died in hospital weeks on from an “incident” in a North Wales village. A police investigation was launched earlier this month after a 38-year-old man was seriously injured following an incident on Market...
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PATIENT GIVEN WRONG DRUG DIED OF AN OVERDOSE
A patient was wrongly given morphine when discharged from hospital and died of an overdose two days later. The patient was given the drug without being made aware of the risks or given guidance on using it safely. An inquiry by the ombudsman has said...
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THE MISSED CHANCE TO AVOID RAIL TRAGEDY
A FATAL train crash could have been avoided if a driver had used an emergency system designed to reduce speed, an investigation has found. They stated it had “not occurred to them” to use their train’s manually operated sander, according to a report...
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‘VICIOUS ANIMAL’
A “VICIOUS animal” left one man fighting for his life and another with life-changing injuries after a series of violent assaults. Colin Campbell attacked five men over a four month period in 2025, with some attacks happening while he was on police...
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‘I THINK I MAY HAVE KILLED SOMEONE’ What man accused of Christmas Day murder of neighbour allegedly told nephew/
A MAN recorded himself beating his neighbour to death in a “cold and calculated” attack on Christmas Day, a murder trial has heard. James Hughes, 67, told his 68-year-old neighbour Harold Turner “you can die for all I care” in a Dictaphone recording, a...
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BODY FOUND AFTER AQUEDUCT CLOSED OFF
POLICE have confirmed a body has been found in a search for a missing woman. North Wales Police put out an appeal overnight on Friday for a missing young woman called Leah. On Saturday afternoon they confirmed a body had been found. No formal...
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PSYCHIC JAILED FOR SEX ASSAULTS ON WOMEN
A “CHARLATAN” psychic who sexually assaulted two women has been jailed for four years and five months. John Starkey was sentenced at Caernarfon Crown Court yesterday. Starkey, 74, of Rhodfa’r Grug, Upper Colwyn Bay, claimed to be an “internationally...
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Jet skis ‘doing up to four times harbour speed limit... with children on board’
DANGEROUS jet-ski riders in Conwy harbour are travelling at up to four times the speed limit along a narrow channel, with young children aboard. Conwy County Council’s Harbour Advisory Committee has heard the council is monitoring the situation using...
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‘I THOUGHT HE WAS ABOUT TO DIE’
A BAN on overnight access to car parks in Eryri (Snowdonia) has been suspended. Eryri National Park Authority (ENPA) restricted overnight parking at 11 of its car parks from April 1 as part of a crackdown on overnight stays and concerns about the...
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PERSON DIES IN STATION TRACKS TRAGEDY
A PERSON has died after being hit by a train yesterday morning. The incident happened at Shotton railway station at around 11am. British Transport Police and the Welsh Ambulance Service were called. The casualty was found on train tracks and...
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WELSH FLAGS ROW IN CITY
EFFORTS to curtail the display of flags on lampposts in Wrexham have been thwarted. Campaigners claimed they are a “display of racism intended to put fear into the heart of minority communities”. Arfon Jones, former Police & Crime Commissioner for...
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MY LITTLE SEA HERO
A 12-YEAR-old girl has been hailed a “little hero” after she and two others were swept out to sea off the North Wales coast. When one of her friends began fitting and going under, Tamika Hezzell hauled her to the surface and began doggy-paddling her...
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MURDER PROBE SEA DEATH MAN NAMED
A MAN who became “unresponsive” in the sea off a popular North Wales beach, and whose death sparked a murder probe, was named yesterday. Ruhul Amin Nana, 34, a teacher born in Navsari, India, of Ettington Road, Birmingham, died at Barmouth, a Gwynedd...
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DISBELIEF AS BRIDGE FORCED TO CLOSE AGAIN
The Menai Suspension Bridge was forced to close for checks again yesterday after a suspected overweight vehicle went across
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I THOUGHT I WOULD NOT GET OUT
LONG before waves began lapping her face and pushing her down, Natasha Oldfield knew she was in serious trouble. Stuck in quicksand for 40 minutes, with the tide rushing in, it was estimated she’d be submerged within “10-15 minutes”. On Rhyl...
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RACE AGAINST THE TIDE
EMERGENCY sirens sounded on the North Wales coast when a beachgoer became trapped in sinking sand with the tide coming in. By the time help arrived at Rhyl beach, Denbighshire, the woman was up to her waist in water. Rhyl’s RNLI inshore lifeboat was...
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The heatwave is over as air turns cooler
THE record-breaking heat that has gripped North Wales this week is set to ease over the weekend, bringing a welcome drop in temperatures for many. After the region officially entered a heatwave - with temperatures in areas like Hawarden, Wrexham and...
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