Anglesey County, Wales News

A RARE black beetle that squeaks when picked up has been found in an Anglesey timber yard.

THE region braced itself for further flooding last night as gales and heavy rain continued to batter N.Wales. Winds gusting up to 80mph hit the Anglesey and Gwynedd coasts and 100mm of rain fell on already sodden ground - again closing roads, schools and a rail line.

A LIFEBOATMAN from Anglesey described the devastation that faced RNLI volunteers after he joined the rescue effort in flood hit Cockermouth.

As the pressure mounts to find alternative energy sources, Anglesey biomass projects may be one solution to the effort to reduce our continual dependence on major fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

AN elderly couple are recovering in hospital after a car crash in Amlwch this morning.

A SIGNIFICANT saving in lives could have been achieved if the road linking Shropshire and North Wales had been widened 17 years ago, says MP Owen Paterson.

COPS arrested 84 people across North Wales yesterday during one of the largest crime crackdowns ever in the region.

TWO teenagers have been killed and a third left fighting for his life after a seaside car crash.

In spite of the fact that 14 people in Wales have died of swine flu the NPHS influenza surveillance scheme, which records reports of diagnoses of flu from more than 300 GP practices across Wales, shows that there has been a decrease in the rate of influenza consultations.

AN EDUCATION service is running out of cash to fund the severance pay and early retirement of teachers - making compulsory redundancies more likely.

A SNAPPER from Anglesey who was fed up with photographing the Welsh rode and flew 6,000 miles to take pictures... of Wales.

Customs claimed to have dealt another major blow to black-market crime gangs after seizing a second multi-million cigarette haul in just over two weeks.

A TRACTOR was set alight and used to block a road as fire fighters tried to reach a blazing holiday home.

FORMER drug-dealers and users are to give school pupils on Anglesey a stark insight into the murky world of addiction and criminality.

A warning for vigilance is issued after the cause of two house fires within a few miles of each other were found to have been started deliberately.

CHURCH leaders have launched an appeal to publish the Bible in Welsh Braille. The Bible Society and other organisations have already promised substantial donations but 10,000 still needs to be raised.

A SCHOOL bus carrying 36 children was involved in a collision with a van yesterday.

DISABLED teenagers on Anglesey are to be mentored under a pilot project to ensure they don't slip through the net when they become adults.

FIREFIGHTERS were kept busy yesterday morning after heavy rain caused flooding across North Wales.

A TRAGIC maritime disaster that claimed 479 lives was remembered with a series of commemorative events on Anglesey.