11th June, 2014 by Richard Clein
Snowdon Mountain Railway, which is North Wales’ biggest tourist attraction, is enjoying a boost to its 2014 visitor numbers, which are 50% up on last year.
Since March, more than thirty thousand people have travelled on the railway which is the only one of its kind in the UK.
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19th May, 2014 by Richard Clein
One of Crosby’s oldest established restaurants is leading the way in making Sefton a cleaner and greener borough.
Barbacoa on Mersey View in Waterloo recycles one hundred percent (100%) of its waste every month.
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6th May, 2014 by Richard Clein
Exclusive screenings of children’s cartoon Ivor the Engine have begun at Snowdon Mountain Railway.
North Wales’ biggest tourist attraction has been given permission to show the colour episodes, filmed in the 1970s, by the family of the creator Oliver Postgate.
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6th May, 2014 by Richard Clein
Barrow-born millionaire businessman Paul Casson has been successful in his bid to buy the town’s football club, subject to FA approval.
It’s a dream come true for the lifelong Bluebirds fan whose plans were overwhelmingly accepted after a vote by the club’s members.
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14th April, 2014 by Richard Clein
Two established Wigan law firms have merged to form Alker Ball Healds.
The two practices have more than 225 years’ service between them in the town with Alker and Ball setting up in 1950 and Healds Solicitors opening around a hundred years earlier.
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12th April, 2014 by Richard Clein
A railway carriage has been named at Snowdon Mountain Railway to honour North Wales’ bass-baritone Bryn Terfel CBE.
A two times grammy award winner, Bryn is one of the most well-known opera singers in the world and in 2006 he was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Music following his CBE for services to Opera three years earlier.
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