North Wales Links

How would you feel if at 11 years old, you stood to win £100,000 first prize playing the harp in a talent show on television? It’s an amazing story unfolding for a Capel Curig girl who has just passed the semi-finals of Sky TV’s “It Must Be The Music” talent show. Harpist Hero Douglas has [...]

Kai Owen is a local lad who’s off to Holywood to star in the fourth series of Torchwood, which is a sci-fi movie being shown on BBC America in the United States. The programs are popular, and the new film Torchwood: The New World is likely to be a huge hit when screened. Kai was born in Llanrwst, [...]

Luke Bithell and his friend Chris Miles will run a marathon from Cardiff Castle South Wales to Conwy Castle North Wales to help raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis society and Help the heroes. The two 21 year olds from Cefn Mawr and Llangollen will begin their run on Thursday (12th August). Luke’s proud Mum [...]

There are many great attractions in North Wales and Llandudno is a great base from which to explore them. There are many daily coach tours available from within Llandudno to the most popular attractions and this is an ideal way if you like to be guided and enjoy the company of others. If setting out [...]

On the last day of the Conwy River Festival, 15th of August, six well known Welsh artists will be frantically painting to raise funds for the Royal Cambrian Academy in Conwy. Maurice Cockrill, Karel Lek, Jeremy Yates, David Lloyd Griffith, Daisy Wyn Griffith and Eleri Jones will position themselves on the Conwy Quay to paint [...]

Duck Race For Llandudno based charity  is part of the Conwy River Festival. A Charity Duck Race is taking place on Saturday 14th of August at Conwy Quay in North Wales. Organiser, St Davids Hospice say it’s a fabulous fund raising idea and will be lots of fun on the day too with a first [...]

The Conwy River Festival is in its 20th year this year and organisers are planning for a  record number of boats taking part. The festival runs from Saturday August 7th to Sunday August 15th and this year organisers say “ locals and visitors join hands to participate in skill tests and rowing competitions right in front of [...]

The Met Office confirmed that the temperature in North Wales on May 23rd, 2010, matched that of Greece as themometers soared to  31.2 degrees fahrenheit in direct sunlight recorded in Wrexham, and 25 degrees in the shade in Hawarden, in the county of Flintshire. As crowds flocked to the beaches, other North Wales attractions benefitted [...]

NEWSAR: Search and rescue abilities in doubt. Written by Roy Norry: Increasingly unreliable rescue Landrovers  are putting the efforts of the North East Wales Search and Rescue teams at risk due to lack of funding to replace them.  The Landrovers are the only way they can get their equipment into the remote places that their [...]

North Wales Weather provides current weather forecast information across the six counties of North Wales with today weather and 5 day forecast weather for each county of North Wales. Click on any county name to view the forecast for it. Anglesey weather, Conwy weather, Denbighshire weather, Flintshire weather, Gwynedd weather and Wrexham weather forecasts and [...]