Gwynedd County, Wales News

A MP was forced to think twice about buying a Remembrance Day poppy after she pledged to live on the basic state pension for a week.

A 40 fine imposed on a motorist who collided with a train on a level crossing has been criticised by a group representing the railway.

A WELSH language protester vowed he won't give a penny compensation to two superstores after he painted them with slogans.

A SCHIZOPHRENIC who rang an out-of-hours doctors service saying he'd run out of medication died with 93% burns after setting himself on fire, an inquest heard yesterday.

STEPHANIE Booth has a life story that TV and film companies are queuing up to tell and get a slice of.

A butcher from Powys rewrote the rules of etiquette when he met the Queen to receive an honour - by wearing a pen behind his ear.

PLANS for a Tesco superstore in Caernarfon that could create 275 new jobs have been withdrawn.

FIRE FIGHTERS were called to a blaze involving a large number of scrap cars at a metal recycling plant near Corwen late on on Wednesday afternoon.

TWO hero cops rushed a crash victim to hospital in their squad car after they found him staggering with blood pouring from his head.

A Conservative MP says the UK government is more likely to build a prison in England than north Wales, where there are too few inmates.

AN elderly woman was rescued by fire fighters after her car plunged 20-feet off a North Wales road.

One man has died in a collision at Sully in the Vale of Glamorgan, say South Wales Police.

A WELSH Guard has spoken of his despair after seeing a fellow North Wales soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

RESIDENTS on a housing estate in Porthmadog are celebrating after Gwynedd councillors threw out plans for a recycling unit to be built near their homes.

A CASH crisis is threatening to shut two museums in Caernarfon. The Segontium Roman museum and fort on Beddgelert Road, which was opened in the 1930s, is facing imminent closure, as the trustees who run it say they can no longer afford the 15,000-a-year needed to keep it open.

UP caused rush hour gridlock on the A55 and around Conwy last night. Motorists faced lengthy delays after eight vehicles crashed just outside the Conwy Tunnel.

A 69-year-old north Wales man who raped a number of children has been jailed for 16 years.

FIVE North Wales soldiers and two from Powys lost their lives in the Iraq conflict.

A SEARCH for new prison sites will focus on North Wales - fuelling speculation that a Wrexham location could be back on the agenda.

WALES will become a world centre for Tolkien fans next year when a landmark gathering of scholars and devotees takes place.