3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (639+ words) A leading mental health charity is urging people to talk openly and support one another on World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10). This year’s theme is changing the narrative on suicide, with the aim of encouraging open conversations about suicide and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (920+ words) A senior Wrexham councillor is calling for further traffic modelling on the Regent Street active travel scheme before a construction contract is awarded, after the scheme’s designers stated that its impact on peak-hour queuing “cannot be robustly quantified”. Cllr Phil…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (639+ words) The Welsh Government’s education minister has told a Wrexham scrutiny committee that a £120 million funding package for additional learning needs “could not move forward as intended” after the Senedd voted down the supplementary budget in July, with a further update…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (285+ words) Residents aged between 65 and 74 who are at higher risk of serious illness if they contract RSV are being invited for a one-off vaccine to boost their protection against the virus. RSV (or respiratory syncytial virus) affects the chest and lungs,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (388+ words) Businesses and organisations across Wales can now apply for grants of up to £250,000 to invest in new equipment and technology. Applications have opened for the latest round of the Welsh Government’s SMART Flexible Innovation Support Capital Equipment Fund. Grants of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (286+ words) Cattle are back on Moel Famau, grazing an enclosure set aside to help protect black grouse. The Belted Galloways have returned to the hill as part of a conservation grazing scheme run by Natural Resources Wales and the Clwydian Range…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (360+ words) Calls have been made for UK Government funding to help tackle the legacy of historic chemical pollution in Wrexham and other contaminated sites across Wales. Elwyn Vaughan, Plaid Cymru MS for Gwynedd Maldwyn, said the scale and cost of dealing…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (370+ words) From this week young people will begin to receive the second dose of their potentially lifesaving Meningitis B vaccination. In the first four weeks of the time-limited roll out, over 17,000 young people across Wales came forward for their vaccination. Deputy…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (570+ words) A poison pool of toxic waste dumped in Wrexham by Monsanto over decades should be cleaned up by the firm’s new owners and the UK Government, say environmental campaigners. Wales Environment Link (WEL) – a network of environmental, countryside and heritage…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (797+ words) Nursing staff are collapsing and patients are “suffering in facilities not fit for humans” during periods of extreme heat, a leading nursing union has warned. The comments from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) follow this summer’s fifth heatwave, which…...