An ever-widening North/ South divide

Posted by North Wales Weekly News team on October 31, 2007 4:32 PM

By Judith Phillips, Reporter

I KNOW this is becoming a favourite hobby horse of mine but when it comes to health care services it seems we in North Wales are somewhere near the bottom of the Assembly's list of priorities.

First we had the North Wales Hospitals Secondary Care Review which proposed cutting two vital services from Llandudno Hospital and closing St Asaph and Abergele hospitals.

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The agony of statutory rights

Posted by North Wales Weekly News team on October 24, 2007 9:22 AM

By Mari Jones, Local Reporter

BUSINESS owners in Llanfairfechan are facing very dark times because of roadworks that have totally blocked the main artery into the village.

The Welsh Assembly is splashing out £1.9 million to resurface the road from Llanfairfechan and Abergwyngregyn, although the condition of the road looks perfectly fine to most people.

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Organised chaos

Posted by North Wales Weekly News team on October 22, 2007 11:28 AM

By Richard Evans, reporter

Oh, the joy of covering council. Recently I enjoyed the monthly instalment of Conwy's planning committee meeting - always an interesting affair, as random as you like.

Cllr John Pitt's interjections are as bewildering as anything you could imagine. The councillor once tried to justify granting an application for floodlights at Colwyn Bay Rugby Club by arguing that the lights would help owls hunt at night.

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Good luck wishes

Posted by North Wales Weekly News team on October 17, 2007 3:45 PM

By Samantha Castle, Reporter

I found it thoroughly touching to hear that Sean Laxen's family decided to donate money to the North Wales rescue team who helped search for the missing nine-year-old schoolboy after he disappeared while on holiday in the region.

It was back in August when the youngster from Norfolk tragically fell into the fast-flowing River Conwy near Conwy Falls in Betws-y-Coed and emergency services joined forces with mountain rescue teams in a frantic underwater search which ended in tragedy.

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Fighting for the people of North Wales

Posted by North Wales Weekly News team on October 9, 2007 11:46 AM

By Steve Stratford, Deputy Editor

The response to our We Want Walton campaign has been staggering, and we're so pleased that the strength of feeling on this issue is making people pick up their phones, send e-mails, sign petitions, join our Facebook group, write letters and fax their support.

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We Want Walton - and so do you!

Posted by North Wales Weekly News team on October 2, 2007 8:58 AM

By Martin Williams, Deputy News Editor
I've been inundated with texts, phone calls and e-mails in support of the Weekly News We Want Walton campaign.

After reading last Thursday's front page, it seems readers from across the region are opposed to the Assembly’s plan to make North Wales patients travel to South Wales for neurosurgery treatment.

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The state of our NHS

Posted by North Wales Weekly News team on October 1, 2007 11:11 AM

By Judith Phillips, Reporter

SOMETIMES I get the feeling I'm living in a Third World country instead of 21st century hi-technology Britain.

This has been reinforced by recent stories I've written for the Weekly News which reflect the way many people believe our National Health Service is in crisis in North Wales.

First we have the debacle of the proposal by health minister Edwina Hart that patients from North Wales needing "routine" neurosurgery should travel to either Swansea of Cardiff rather than Walton Hospital in Liverpool for treatment.

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