Zombie scares the kids, podcast, and other links [10-10-08]
Post categories: Buckley, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Hot Topics, Mold, Music / Entertainment, Prestatyn, Rhyl, Wrexham
| 12:40 UK time, Friday, 10 October 2008
Highlights and quick links to some of the stories and blogs we're following today using our shared reader [what's this?]
Podcast - NE Wales Update
This week, we report on news that 48 Post Offices are to close in North Wales; George Herd gets a look inside the new joint police and fire control room in St Asaph and reporter Rob Thomas visits Europe's first gluten free bakery in Wrexham.
Roy Noble finds out how a decline in honeybee numbers is affecting the apple harvest at the Erddig estate; an ex-soldier from Rhyl completes the Three Peaks challenge in a 35 kilo bomb disposal suit in memory of his brother and the Past Master programme meets the Rayon Queens of the old Courtaulds factory in Flint.
Painting over Rhyl's past - BBC Local News
Rhyl's infamous shop sign ['Rhyl's biggest receiver of stolen goods'] blamed for blighting the town is being painted over this afternoon to clean up the town's image.
Harry the Zombie saved - Evening Leader
Mold's party shop is keeping its ghoulish window dressing for Halloween, complete with Harry the Zombie [be warned, he's scary] despite complaints he was scaring children after readers voted the manequin should stay put!
