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The Daily Post will be on hand to keep you updated on how the local elections unfold in North Wales today. |
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The full list of schools on the closure list |
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Nationally, Labour was losing control of heartland councils in Wales today in a dire set of local election results. |
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GWYNEDD would be left with a total 45 schools spread across 85 sites – rather than the existing 106 sites – if the schools reorganisation goes ahead as proposed. |
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A SEARCH for a misisng Anglesey man was called off late last night after he returned home safe and well. |
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A 14-year-old girl was injured outside Denbigh High School this morning |
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A DRIVER who killed his friend in a car crash was warned he could be jailed. |
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THIRTEEN stores stand empty on Wrexham’s main shopping street within 150 yards of each other. The sight is a reminder of the crisis hitting the high street, but also raises fears that the new Eagles Meadow retail development is killing the old town. |
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AN elderly couple escaped from their smoke-logged home yesterday after a cigarette came into contact with newspapers and was left smouldering overnight. |
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JAILED gangster John Damon Gizzi could be out of prison next week. |
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A 37-YEAR-OLD housewife was jailed yesterday after a court heard she had regular sex with two young boys, one of whom was just 12. |
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A LITTLE boy battling cerebral palsy is facing a two-year wait to get the wheelchair he so desperately needs. |
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AN ELECTRICS firm where workers marched to save their jobs say there is a “strong possibility” grant support could secure up to 40 positions. |
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RESCUE teams were last night searching for a 36-year-old man missing from his Anglesey home. |
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WORKERS staged an angry protest accusing Tesco of creating “harsh” conditions for agency staff in suppliers’ factories by driving down prices for cheap meat. |
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A NEW football stadium guaranteeing the future of one of the world’s oldest clubs looks set to take a major step forward. |
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THE future governance of Anglesey is nearing a cliff edge after leading councillors boycotted a crunch meeting to thrash out their differences with officers. |
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WELSH and English speakers could be seeing the world around them differently, a new study has revealed. |
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POLICE raided a house in Buckley and found what is believed to be a cannabis factory yesterday. |
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LANDFILL gases are to power more than 600 homes on Anglesey in a combined recycling project that will also see food and garden waste turned into compost. |
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MORE than half of Welsh people want a full law-making parliament for Wales for the first time. |
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CARERS wept after councillors decided to close a residential home for the elderly. |
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Low-fare airline Ryanair is considering charging passengers to use the toilets on its planes. |
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Gordon Brown has voiced "anger" over the £693,000-a-year pension awarded to the former boss of Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Fred Goodwin. |
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A MORE powerful sleaze watchdog could be appointed to police the standards of conduct of Assembly Members. |
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TORY Assembly leader Nick Bourne faced a backlash last night over a proposed reshuffle of his opposition front bench team. |
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DENBIGHSHIRE’S former chief executive’s job is being advertised with a salary of £125,000 a year. |
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SMALL business leaders in North Wales are welcoming an EU decision to cut red tape hampering small firms fighting the recession. |
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A five-year-old boy has burned out his own bedroom in the hope that his family would move away from a gang that is terrorising them. |
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Councils will have to disclose the pay and perks of their chief executives under new measures designed to crack down on town hall "fat cats". |
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The Government is legally entitled to take court action to recover social security benefits paid "by mistake" to claimants innocent of any wrongdoing, a judge has ruled. |
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Beleaguered HBOS has slumped to annual losses of £10.8 billion and the bank's new owner has warned of a slide into the red this year. |
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REALITY tv star Mark Evans, opera star Gwyn Hughes Jones and chart topping choir Only Men Aloud! are among the star names taking part in concerts at this summer’s National Eisteddfod. |
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An armed gang have held a family with a young child hostage in a so-called tiger-kidnapping as they launched a multi-million euro robbery at one of the Bank of Ireland's flagship branches. |
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An armed gang has stolen up to £6.2m (7m euro) after kidnapping a Bank of Ireland worker and holding his family hostage. |
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A fit and healthy teenage rugby player died 12 hours after taking treatment for acne, a coroner has said. |
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Italian investigators told the Meredith Kercher murder trial that Amanda Knox did cartwheels in the police station where she was taken for questioning. |
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A woman lived the high life funded by £20,000 worth of stolen cheques, a court has heard. |
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Energy supplier Scottish Power has become the latest firm to cut gas and electricity prices. |
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The parents of a baby boy endured a "horrendous" 30-minute wait before a car thief who drove off with their son inside their vehicle returned to the scene and dumped him in the street. |
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Veteran Irish rockers U2 mimicked the Beatles by performing an impromptu gig live from the top of a London landmark. |
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Jade Goody has gone into a hospice for the weekend, her spokesman Max Clifford said. |
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Six men and a woman have been arrested by detectives in the hunt for an armed gang who escaped with a 7 million euro (£6.2m) cash haul from the Irish Republic's largest ever bank heist. |
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Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal closed his award-winning Michelin-starred restaurant following a food poisoning scare. |
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A murder investigation has been launched after the body of man was discovered by walkers at a rural beauty spot. |
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A sex offender who went on the run is due to be questioned over the murder of a prostitute. |
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing a showdown with critics of the Government's controversial plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail when he attends a meeting of Labour's national policy forum. |
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A man has been blinded after a stranger threw acid in his face following an argument in the street, police have said. |
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A man is being questioned on suspicion of kidnapping and theft after a relieved mother hailed the "miracle" return of her baby son who was in the back seat of a car driven off by a thief. |
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The Premier League has called for tighter laws against IT theft to stop the unauthorised online broadcasting of football matches. |
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A 14-YEAR-OLD boy had to be sprayed with incapacitant spray after jumping on the back of a police officer in the early hours of New Year’s Day, a court was told. |
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TORY Assembly leader Nick Bourne was disappointed yesterday that two senior Conservative AMs rejected his offer of new jobs in the shadow cabinet. |
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COUNCILLORS have deferred a controversial decision whether to axe a school transport subsidy which could mean hundreds of pupils are left stranded. |
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A CINEMA complex was evacuated after a fire alert. |
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BAILIFFS have been brought in by housing chiefs to ensure vital gas safety checks are carried out. |
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THIS porky pair are on the look-out for a new home. |
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THREE otters seen on TV are new exhibits at Plas Newydd museum in Denbighshire. |
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A MIDDLE aged woman was taken to hospital yesterday afternoon after her car crashed into a barrier on the A55. |
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A COUNCILLOR and former mayor who served his Anglesey community for more than 50 years has died, aged 78. |
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LIFE is about to become much harder for bogus callers in North Wales, police said yesterday. |
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REALITY TV stars Mark Evans and Rhydian, opera star Gwyn Hughes Jones and chart topping choirs Only Men Aloud! and Ysgol Glanaethwy are among the star names taking part in concerts at this summer’s National Eisteddfod. |
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A MAN escaped with minor injuries after his car ploughed into a central reservation in Rhyl yesterday. |
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THE Conservative parliamentary candidate in Delyn, Antoinette Sandbach, is mourning the death of her five-day-old son Sam. |
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A SCHEME to stop rogue cold callers is being rolled out after residents gave it the thumbs up. |
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COACH operators are owed tens of thousands of pounds by a Lancashire transport company. |
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DESPERATE jobseekers are battling for work in hard-hit industries across the region – with more than 600 people applying for around 30 construction jobs this week. |
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Competitors from butchers’ shops in the borough will offer one cooked and one raw sausage to top judge Dennis Turner in Wrexham’s Champion Sausage Competition. |
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DESPERATE jobseekers are battling for work in hard-hit industries across the region – with more than 600 people applying for around 30 construction jobs this week. |
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THE mother of a young man who was killed in 90mph crash while racing against his friend, yesterday pleaded with a judge to be lenient with the other driver. |
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Gus and Archie won’t turn their snouts up at a new pad. |
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A COUNCILLOR and former mayor who served his Anglesey community for more than 50 years has died, aged 78. |
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THREE otters seen on TV are new exhibits at Plas Newydd museum in Denbighshire. |
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Competitors from butchers’ shops in the borough will offer one cooked and one raw sausage to top judge Dennis Turner in Wrexham’s Champion Sausage Competition. |
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The Army's most decorated serving war hero has claimed the Government is failing to care for soldiers with mental trauma caused by combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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THE mother of a young man who was killed in 90mph crash while racing against his friend, yesterday pleaded with a judge to be lenient with the other driver. |
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A 104-YEAR-old Territorial Army veteran is hoping to achieve a life-long ambition to reach the summit of Snowdon. |
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A NURSE had the top of a finger sliced off when one patient at a psychiatric unit growled and attacked another – and the door slammed against her. |
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FOREIGN lorry drivers will be forced to carry cash to pay on-the-spot fines for flouting traffic laws or face having their vehicles immobilised, the Daily Post can reveal. |
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The body of a British teacher who vanished in the French Alps more than six months ago has been found. |
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Shops closed down by the recession should be turned into community facilities such as youth clubs and libraries to prevent high streets becoming "ghost towns", the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. |
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Three people have died and another two have been seriously injured following a road traffic collision in Menai Bridge during the early hours of this morning (Saturday, Feb 28). |
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Public services have been warned by an independent spending watchdog to brace themselves for "substantial" funding cuts after the recession. |
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Jade Goody will spend the weekend in a hospice as she struggles to control the effects of her terminal cancer. |
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Two British tourists have fallen to their deaths in the French Alps, the Foreign Office said. |
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Three people have been killed in a horror crash on Anglesey. |
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Cancer-stricken Jade Goody remains positive after spending a "far more comfortable night" at a hospice, her publicist Max Clifford said. |
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Gordon Brown has taken on critics of Government plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail - urging them to face facts about the massive problems facing the postal service. |
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Parents will "go through hell" next week as they wait to find out if their child has secured a place at the secondary school of their choice, campaigners have warned. |
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Gordon Brown has renewed the pressure on former bank chiefs to give up huge pensions as he demanded a clean-up of the banking system to eradicate "indefensible" practises. |
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At least half of the cash stolen in Ireland's largest ever bank robbery - a 7 million euro (£6.2m) 'tiger' kidnap raid - has been recovered. |
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Terminally-ill reality television star Jade Goody is feeling a "lot brighter" after being admitted to a hospice, her publicist Max Clifford said. |
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The Prime Minister has set out a blueprint for the future of the banking system as he renewed pressure on ex-banking chiefs to give up generous pensions or be stripped of them. |
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Noisy protests failed to persuade Gordon Brown to drop plans to sell off part of Royal Mail as he warned critics there was no other way to secure postal services. |
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At least 100 fire-fighters have been involved in a national training exercise to test their response to a large-scale emergency. |
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David Cameron has opened his heart publicly for the first time over the sudden death of his son - telling well-wishers the loss of Ivan had left a hole in family life "so big that words can't describe it". |
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TV chef Heston Blumenthal said he was baffled by what may have caused a health scare that forced him to close his award-winning restaurant. |
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The Treasury has been challenged to explain an alleged secret dossier at the heart of the Lloyds takeover of Halifax Bank of Scotland. |
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to join fellow EU leaders in Brussels for another emergency summit on the economy amid fears national protectionism will scupper hopes of recovery. |
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A Scottish man is in a coma in hospital after being attacked while on a stag night in New Zealand. |
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Parents will be told that over-the-counter cough and cold medicines do not work on children under 12 and can even cause side effects like hallucinations under new advice. |
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The Government will look into whether the use of lotteries to award school places is having a harmful effect on children, it has been reported. |
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February was "a month of two halves" as Britain was battered by wintry weather followed by a two-week mild spell, meteorologists have said. |
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Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has issued a stark warning to unions and MPs opposing his Royal Mail sell off plans: back me or put postal services at risk and let the Tories return to power. |
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Terminally-ill reality television star Jade Goody is feeling a "lot brighter" after being admitted to a hospice, her publicist Max Clifford has said. |
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Animal rights activists will stage a protest against the use of elephants at the Great British Circus. |
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Minority groups will get extra help in a bid to protect them from the economic downturn, it was reported. |
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Mideast envoy Tony Blair was in the Gaza Strip to discuss reconstruction efforts. |
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The Government is prepared to change the law to strip former banking chief Sir Fred Goodwin of his £650,000-a-year pension, Commons leader Harriet Harman hinted. |
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Ministers faced calls to allow a full judicial inquiry into the role of British intelligence agents over the rendition of terror suspects. |
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Animal rights activists have demonstrated outside a circus that has controversially introduced three elephants into its show. |
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Gordon Brown has insisted the European Union was united in its response to the global economic crisis after joining fellow leaders for an emergency summit in Brussels. |
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Cancer-stricken Jade Goody is facing the prospect of an operation to relieve her "awful pain", her publicist Max Clifford said. |
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Lord Mandelson remains on collision course with unions and Labour MPs after launching a furious attack on opponents of his plans to part-privatise Royal Mail. |
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Sir Fred Goodwin will not get his £650,000-plus pension even if he is legally entitled to it, Commons Leader Harriet Harman vowed in the strongest Government attack yet on the former banking chief. |
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The Government department responsible for animal welfare is looking at the possibility of regulating the use of wild animals in circuses. |
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Safe and ethically uncontroversial stem cell treatments for a host of diseases were closer to becoming a reality thanks to a major breakthrough by British and Canadian scientists. |
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Banking giant HSBC is expected to announce a £12 billion rights issue when it reports its annual results. |
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A further 320,000 jobs look set to be culled during the coming three months as companies respond to the recession, it has been warned. |
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Treatment of wounded British troops on the frontline is so good that NHS accident and emergency departments in the UK should learn from it, a report has said. |
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Jurors trying a man accused of murdering Harry Potter actor Rob Knox are expected to be sent out to consider their verdicts. |
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The number of people planning to buy a car has dipped to a four-year low, it has been revealed. |
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Jessica Rabbit, Betty Boop and the Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel Bunny were named as the sexiest cartoon characters. |
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The husband of terminally-ill Jade Goody is due to appear in court accused of assaulting a taxi driver. |
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Holyrood ministers are due to unveil the Scottish Government's plans for tackling the country's £2.25 billion alcohol misuse problems. |
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Gordon Brown will fly to the United States on a mission to deliver a "clear message" to Barack Obama from Europe about the need for urgent worldwide action to counter the economic crisis. |
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A pensioner will finally receive her Second World War Medal - 66 years after she first risked her life for Britain. |
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Banking giant HSBC has called on shareholders for a record £12.5 billion after profits slid 62% last year. |
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Britain risks becoming a "second division" player in global affairs because the Armed Forces are severely under-funded and over-stretched, according to a new report. |
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FLOWERS, soft toys and poignant messages mark the spot where three young people lost their lives in a horrific car crash during the early hours ofSaturday. |
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SMOKERS already hit by rising cigarette prices are now reeling from another charge – a fee to take a puff outside a nightclub. |
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A MAN who tried to blackmail three banks out of thousands of pounds was caught through a trace on his mobile phone. |
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PUBLIC toilet closures across Wales are robbing older people of their dignity, according to a leading charity. |
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POSTAL staff turned detective when a letter arrived at the sorting office addressed to Bollywood Heights, Dolgellau. |
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A GROUP of teenage girls was led to safety by mountain rescue teams after getting lost as darkness fell on a 3,000ft mountain in Snowdonia. |
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A PRANCING pooch from Anglesey is set to compete against the world’s top dancing dogs at the prestigious Crufts show. |
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COUNCILS are owed almost £250,000 in unpaid parking tickets stretching back months. |
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OWNERS of an Anglesey nature reserve next to the site of a planned biogas plant fuelled by chicken blood and entrails have voiced their objection to the project. |
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AN Assembly Member has hit out at new European rules which will make it illegal for anyone to work more than 48 hours a week. |
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THE number of road collisions in North Wales which have resulted in deaths or serious injuries has risen dramatically in the past few months, according to latest figures. |
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ALMOST one in three young people have had a drunken one night stand that they went on to regret, a new report has found. |
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A SENIOR referee in Welsh football is recovering from a broken leg after falling off his motorbike in a road accident. |
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HOSPITALS in North Wales are to receive more than £5m for minor buildings improvements and new equipment. |
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A CAR collided with the front of Aberystwyth Police Station early yesterday. |
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Former British ambassador to the United Nations Sir Emyr Jones Parry is spearheading debate on further devolution in Wales. ROB DAVIES asks why it’s so important |
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THE All Wales Convention was set up to ask the people of Wales whether they would like to see the National Assembly in Cardiff have full lawmaking powers over devolved policy areas. |
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WELSH drivers will finally be able to display the Red Dragon flag legally on number plates within weeks. |
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ONE person needed hospital treatment after a road accident near Denbigh at the weekend. |
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WALES should have policies which help preserve the world’s dwindling supply of water, an AM has warned. |
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THE first Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of Glyndr University in Wrexham have been installed in office. |
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Jessica Rabbit, Betty Boop and the Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel Bunny have been named as the sexiest cartoon characters. |
