Caernarfon, Wales News

WREXHAM scored more highly than Caernarfon when it came to reasons to choose a location for North Wales' new prison earlier this year.

TWO of Britain's most celebrated former Prime Ministers played golf at a North Wales course.

ABERDYFI Community Council has passed a vote of no confidence in their county councillor, Dewi Owen, after he backed closeure of the village school.

ONE of North Wales' most horrific murders took place on Christmas Day a century ago.

Carl Mondy was on his way to buy a new wedding ring when the phone call came. The one he lost at a Welsh castle had been found.

A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder after a man was stabbed to death following a snowball fight.

A Texan whose wedding band flew off as he grabbed his wind-blown hat while atop a castle tower in Wales has the ring back.

EARLIER this month a pensioner suffered serious burns and one of his dogs died in a house fire in Flint.

FREE places are being offered to children and families to go on a special weight loss programme.

A POLICEMAN yesterday claimed a 50mph speed limit wasn't enforceable when he did 98mph in a police car - because signs were unlit.

A former Gwynedd council workman has been given a three-year community order after an IT manager discovered indecent images of children on computer kit.

A FAMILY who almost lost their young child after she contracted a life threatening brain virus, and were forced to sell their home to look after her, have been given just 28 days to quit their temporary council house.

A YOUNG woman described how she used karate to fight off a would-be kidnapper after he grabbed her from behind on a country lane.

GWYNEDD councillors yesterday voted to cut jobs, overtime, street lights and charge school bus fares to find 16m savings over three years.

Thirty years on police say they may investigate a spate of arson attacks by a group calling itself Meibion Glyndwr Police say they have not ruled out a new investigation into the Welsh holiday homes arson campaign, which began 30 years ago this weekend.

THE owner of a Rottweiler which allegedly bit the arm of Conwy MP Betty Williams was yesterday fined 100 and ordered to pay 365 compensation.

AN ex-rugby referee accused of downloading child porn is also accused of indecently assaulting three girls, it emerged yesterday.

OWNERS of the rejected site for a prison in Caernarfon have announced a leisure and retail project that could give the town a huge boost.

A VERDICT of accidental death has been recorded on a Canadian scrambler who was killed in a Snowdonia plunge.

A mother had told an inquest how she left her young son for just a few minutes only to find him strangled by the cord of a window blind.