Riding pigs, newsletter and podcasts [22-08-08]
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| 13:46 UK time, Friday, 22 August 2008
A copy of the weekly highlights sent by email to subscribers of bbc.co.uk/northeastwales
LATEST UPDATES: Olympic gold - Dinner lady recipes - Bank Holiday fun - Denbigh and Flint Show pictures - Moel Famau sculpture - NE Wales podcast - Rants and Raves - From gipsy to Lord - Riding pigs! - Racecourse breaks world record - and much more
Olympic success - again
Team GB rower Tom James has become Wrexham's second athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympics - the first was walker Ken Matthews back in 1964.
Denbigh and Flint Show
View photos from the annual agricultural show and read criticism about the conditions under foot.
Moel Famau sculpture concerns
There's not much love for the Superlambanana sculpture which has been unveiled on Moel Famau.
Bank Holiday fun
There are no shortage of things to do in the region this weekend, with a two day free music festival in Rhyl, annual village shows, Cilcain mountain race and more.
Town talk
Wrexham's new development plan - Ken: "The third phase of this plan will bring a total of 2,500 jobs, according to one report. How will the road system cope with this development?"
Brymbo Steelworks site - Brian: "...we must keep pushing the local authority to get on with the permissions for the rest of the former steelworks site to be developed."
Flint's youth - Quimby: "The main problem with anti social behaviour is the parents of these yobbos..."
Rants and Raves
Riding pigs! - Neville remembers riding pigs "across the brook to get to school" in Shotton:
Author Alexander Cordell - Gid: "As an Englishman living in Wales I was instructed by my then (proud) Welsh girlfriend to read "Rape of the Fair Country". As I write this I am still reading it. It is wonderfully evocative."
School dinners - Sue: "Crispy liver and bacon, cheese pie and a salad with peas and beetroot that I would give my soul to get the recipe for. Where can I find dinner lady recipes?"
Podcast - NE Wales Update
Good Evening Wales hears from the grandfather of a new-born baby girl whose mother had to have an emergency Caesarian section after being beaten by intruders at her home; award-winning author Rosie Thomas tells Phil George about growing up in Caerwys; Felicity Evans finds out why Wrexham's Racecourse soccer ground has won a place in the record books; And Lord Thomas of Gresford gives Roy Noble an insight into the life of his colourful ancestor, Abram Wood, of the famous Welsh gipsy family:
