The latest news from Abergele, Pensarn, Kinmel Bay and Towyn from the North Wales Weekly News

Council backs down over calls for Abergele alley gates to be left open

COUNCILLORS have backed down over claims that “ghetto gates” should be left open during the day.Read

Kinmel Bay woman’s 50 year battle with disease

FOR almost fifty years a Kinmel Bay woman’s life has been blighted by a hidden disease.Read

Llandrillo College teacher wants to help Ghana

IN HER 12 years at Llandrillo College the most common distraction to a lesson would be an ill-timed fire alarm.Read

Towyn man donates kidney to son, eight

A DAD gave the gift of life to his eight-year-old son by donating his own kidney.Read

Abergele school sets an example on exclusions

AN ABERGELE school has been praised for its method of dealing with pupil exclusion.Read

£644k cash boost for vital flood defences in Towyn

A MAJOR project to help homes at risk from flooding moved a step closer to completion this week after a £644,000 cash injection from Environment Agency Wales.Read

Conwy county pubs lose licences over underage drinking

TWO pubs face closure after they were caught selling booze to a child on three occasions.Read

‘Face of S4C’ Robin Jones of Abergele dies aged 71

TRIBUTES have been paid to Robin Jones, the first presenter to appear on Welsh language channel S4C, who has died at the age of 71.Read

'Transform empty Abergele homes before building more'

ABERGELE Council is highlighting the number of run-down and unused properties in the town as an alternative to Conwy’s Local Development Plan.Read

Anger as Red Cross reveals plans to sell Abergele community hub

CAMPAIGNERS have reacted fiercely to plans to sell a community hub in Abergele.Read

Conwy Council could be forced to create traveller sites

A POLITICIAN is warning that plans by the Welsh Assembly Government will take power away from local authorities, and force them to find land to site gypsy travellers.Read

Uncertainty over Abergele school's future

A FUNDING crisis means one of the region’s leading school projects faces an uncertain future.Read

Abergele says farewell to Third World surgery

YEARS of tireless campaigning have paid off as Abergele prepares to finally see the back of its crumbling Kinmel Road surgery.Read

Abergele family home flooded for the 11th year in a row

A FAMILY has suffered an eleven-year flooding nightmare as stinking water has repeatedly washed across their garden making it unusable.Read

Tributes to 'El Bandito' Orig Williams

TRIBUTES were last night paid to wrestler Orig Williams – famously known throughout Wales and beyond as El Bandito – who died suddenly aged 78.Read

Wife feared gang of yobs would kill her husband in Abergele attack

A TERRIFIED wife yesterday described how she feared her husband was dead after a gang of youths beat him up in the street outside his shop.Read

'My Mum's killer can rot in prison' says Kinmel Bay man

A VICIOUS killer who stabbed his wife to death claiming he was provoked by her taunts about his impotence, will “rot in jail,” his stepson said last night.Read

Dad from Abergele 'lucky to be alive' after crash

THE family of a man who survived a horror smash last night said he is lucky to be alive.Read

Mystery surrounds Abergele church crypt find

ARCHAEOLOGISTS are baffled after discovering a crypt cleared of bodies, instead finding buried remnants associated with spell-casting and fortune-telling.Read