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

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:00 GMT

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

Kinmel Bay woman’s 50 year battle with disease

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:00:00 GMT

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

Llandrillo College teacher wants to help Ghana

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:00:00 GMT

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

Towyn man donates kidney to son, eight

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

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

Abergele school sets an example on exclusions

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

£644k cash boost for vital flood defences in Towyn

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:00:00 GMT

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.

Conwy county pubs lose licences over underage drinking

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT

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

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

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:00:00 GMT

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.

'Transform empty Abergele homes before building more'

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:00:00 GMT

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

Anger as Red Cross reveals plans to sell Abergele community hub

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:00:00 GMT

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

Conwy Council could be forced to create traveller sites

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:00:00 GMT

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.

Uncertainty over Abergele school's future

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:30:00 GMT

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

Abergele says farewell to Third World surgery

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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

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

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:30:00 GMT

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

Tributes to 'El Bandito' Orig Williams

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:50:00 GMT

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

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

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:30:00 GMT

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.

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

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:50:00 GMT

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.

Dad from Abergele 'lucky to be alive' after crash

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:50:00 GMT

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

Mystery surrounds Abergele church crypt find

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:00:00 GMT

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

Trailer parks are 'blighting Colwyn Bay and Abergele'

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:30:00 GMT

TRAILER park “ghettos” could wreck any regeneration effort along the Colwyn Bay and Abergele coastline - says a concerned Assembly Member.