Andy Gallanders News Today

THE North Wales health board has been slammed for failing to seek money from a large housing development to improve local services.

DETAILED plans to build 74 houses in Wrexham have been given the green light subject to revised access arrangements being agreed.

DETAILED plans to put 74 houses on a field in Wrexham have been backed for approval despite concerns about traffic and road safety.

A MAIN route in Wrexham is currently closed, police warned.

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service say they have had a number of reports of flash floods in the Wrexham area

A “small victory on a sad day” for Rhosnesni was secured by some councillors last night in a meeting full of points of order and confusion from some over what was being voted on. A report presented to full council last night outlined how campaigners trying to save Dean Road playing field had failed to […]

The Chair of a Wrexham Scrutiny committee reminded Officers and a Lead Member that her committee was there to ‘ask questions around accountability’ this week. The comments were made during a meeting on Wednesday about plans to launch a fresh attempt to become City of Culture in 2029. Wrexham narrowly missed out to Bradford to […]

A Wrexham secondary school has been placed into special measures for the second time. An Estyn report published this morning announced that Ysgol Rhosnesni was found to have  made insufficient progress in relation to the recommendations following the most recent core inspection’. It is the second time the school has been placed into special measures, with […]

Wrexham Council’s Ty Pawb facility is running at a loss – however the arts offer is ‘very successful’ at grant applications and does not run a deficit – with the ‘building costs and car park’ ‘pulling down’ the overall budgets. The detail emerged during an ‘urgent’ (but not really – more here) meeting of the […]

Empty properties in Wrexham are “just too big in terms of both rents, rates and space”, a council committee has been told. The comment was made during a meeting of the employment, business and investment scrutiny committee yesterday (15 June). As we reported earlier this week although the majority of the aims in the documents […]