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The current cold snap has seen some interesting changes in the way local councils and schools keep people posted about changes due to the weather.

It all started on Friday when -user Denbighshire council [] sent their first flurry of tweets announcing school closures. []

This is in addition to their .

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Local history books made up of stories shared from memory are being compiled in Flintshire with tales about unlikely tourist attractions and football heroes.

Ysceifiog will be featured in the newest addition to the series and will be launched at the village hall today.

The other booklets already published feature , , and .

The booklet featuring Caergwrle looks back to the time when the village was a tourist attraction with its own spa.

At one point the spa was generating 14,000 bottles of "saline fizzy water" a day and attracting visitors from Liverpool and Manchester.

Other visitors also travelled to villages such as Nannerch by train before the station closed in 1962 and holidaymakers such as Pat Gore share memories of their time there, in far from luxurious accommodation:

"The cottage just had two large rooms, one downstairs and one upstairs. Cooking and heating were done with a range and there was no electricity, running water or sewage system."

The booklets also celebrate village life in the more recent past.

Community events in Gwernaffield and Pantymwyn feature in black and white and colour photos with a visit by England football hero Kevin Keegan to open a 1975 fete one of the highlights!

He had relatives in the area and settled down for a while on the outskirts of Mold and became a familiar face in town while playing for Liverpool.

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Social media expert - named as one of the - is giving a talk to tourism businesses in Denbigh explaining how they can use the tools to increase trade.

Laptops with wifi access will be available during the drop-in session today at where Suw is offering help and advice.

Already, there are lots of local businesses using social media tools like Twitter and Facebook to promote their businesses - but there's an art to it, according to Keith Dudhnath who runs a Llangollen B&B.

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Then and now views of Hope Street, Wrexham

A new 91Èȱ¬ history project shows how our towns have changed over the years, with an exhibition in Wrexham and opportunities to take part.

The project, , uses photo sharing website to host old photos of high street shops with present-day photos of the same scenes.

People are being asked to dig out old albums to find photographs which depict the shopping areas of villages and towns. They can then take a picture of the same scene today - and compare.

There are already some fine examples. Photographer shows how Wrexham town centre has changed in less than a decade.

And webmaster Peter, who runs Flint local history website, , has uploaded some films showing - before the tower blocks - via .

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Looking towards Mold Fire Station with Aldi supermarket car park under flood water

It rained for what seemed like most of October, causing damage and misery for residents and businesses [as Wales Today TV reporter Matthew Richards found out in this ].

Then came news of 'new' but that couldn't come soon enough as .

By winter 2003, residents had their fingers crossed the in case the heavy rain returned.

Some people were flooded four times in as many years.

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It has been confirmed that 48 members of staff at Hawarden bakery P&A Davies are to be axed after a takeover, according to the .

It was reported last month that 93 bakery staff await jobs news as the company was bought after being put into administration.

But it's not all bad news as a Wrexham answering service firm is to create 100 jobs as part of an expansion, says 91Èȱ¬ News.

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