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Almost £145,000 is to be given to local organisations supporting people across Wrexham during the cost of living crisis. The money, which includes £66,000 from the Welsh Government and £100,000 from the council’s Discretionary Cost of Living Support funding, will be split between five separate initiatives. Last month a cross-party group of councillors was set […]

Two senior conservative councillors have voted against awarding Wrexham Football Club owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney ‘Freedom of the City’ after a “star player engaged in a message of hate against a section of our community.” Councillors had met today to discuss awarding the new club owners the highest and rarest local Civic award […]

Wrexham Council’s Planning Committee have voted to approve plans to build a 5,500 seat new stand at the historic Racecourse stadium. With the approval confirmed demolition work will now commence to remove the old historic Kop, several weeks earlier than some draft plans had predicted. Wrexham AFC Strategic Advisor Shaun Harvey told the committee in […]

Wrexham Council is eagerly awaiting the outcome of the Welsh Roads Review, with the future upgrades of A483 junctions set to to be decided. Cllr David A Bithell confirmed he had sent a letter to Welsh Government, and had made ‘lots of representation’ on the issue, with a hope that the case for improvements locally […]

Councillors are “wedded to reducing Wrexham’s carbon footprint”, council leader Mark Pritchard said. His comments were made after we detailed social media posts from one elected member sharing ‘misinformation’ regarding climate change to the Council Leader and Deputy Leader. Reducing carbon output is on the local authority’s agenda as it looks to replace an existing […]