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A RALLYING cry has gone out from Conwys ailing mussel industry, which is calling for more support from local people and businesses.
Conwys mussels are famous for being amongst the best in the world, but many local businesses are buying in Anglesey mussels, or rope grown mussels from Ireland and Scotland.
Although the industry is hundreds of years old in the town, there are now only six men who regularly go out in their boats to rake in the mussels, in the traditional way.
Trefor Jones, a partner in The Conwy Mussel Company, admitted this current season has been a tough one.
The mussel industry in Conwy is declining each year, its very sad.
A SCHOOLGIRL from Colwyn Bay is celebrating after taking the top spot at a national beauty contest.
Victoria Tooby won the Miss Teen Galaxy award in a glittering grand final at the Daresbury Park Hotel, Cheshire. Victoria competed against contestants from across the country but walked away with the crown.
She will now represent Wales in the Miss Teen Galaxy International contest in Chicago in the USA this August.
Read on here: http://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/99867/colwyn-bay-s-miss-teen-galaxy-heads-to-usa.aspx
A reporter who grew up in Monmouth has become one of the first to reach the Minamisenriku district in Japan following the earthquake .
CNN correspondent Paula Hancocks, who studied at the Wales, Cardiff, reported live from the disaster area.
Wouldn't you just know it--there was a Welshman behind Pi?
Celebrate Pi Day!
William Jones , FRS (1675 3 July 1749) was a Welsh mathematician , most noted for his proposal for the use of the symbol (the Greek letter pi ) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter . He was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund Halley . In November, 1711 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , and was later its Vice-President. [1]
Read all about William Jones, from Anglesey, here , so you can amaze your friends with your grasp of trivia!
Pi, Greek letter (
), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535
infinitely without repeating. The symbol for pi was first used in 1706 by William Jones, but was popular after it was adopted by the Swiss Leonhard Euler in 1737.
Buy Pi merchandise, send an ecard, and learn more than you want to about Pi here: http://www.piday.org/
The window, showing a black Christ, was considered "bold" at the time Forty-eight years ago an act of terrorism on the other side of the Atlantic created such an outpouring of sentiment, that its solidarity reached Wales.
On 16 September 1963, a splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four black girls attending Sunday school.
While few outside of Birmingham's African-American community displayed much sympathy, youngsters in Wales were so touched by the tragedy that they quickly raised the funds to replace the church's .
Their message of support from Wales is remembered in a BBC Radio Four documentary at 1130 GMT on Thursday.
Kathleen Bunton, a member of the church and lifetime resident of Birmingham, said: "I was surprised that people cared about blacks altogether.
BRITONS in Japan have spoken of their terror as the enormous earthquake struck.
Even for a country used to earthquakes, this one was of horrific proportions the largest the Pacific rim nation has ever faced, with a tsunami that crashed ashore, submerging everything in its path as it surged several miles inland before retreating.
Apocalyptic images on Japanese TV showing powerful, debris-filled waves, uncontrolled fires and a ship caught in a massive whirlpool resembled scenes from a Hollywood disaster film.
Waves of muddy waters flowed over farmland near Sendai, carrying buildings, some of them ablaze.
Upturned and partially submerged cars bobbed in the water.
First person accounts and videos are here:
University archaeologists to dig for Tregaron elephant
Archaeologists are to dig up the garden of a Ceredigion pub in the search for a legendary Victorian circus elephant.
The Tregaron Elephant has long had its place in local folklore - a beast that died while on tour rumoured to be buried behind the town's Talbot Hotel.
A small-scale in April will search for clues in the hope of revealing its final resting place.
The elephant was said to have fallen ill after drinking in the town in 1848.
Bangor museum tells story of the naughty boys' ship
The HMS Clio took troubled boys and trained them for a life in the navy or merchant marine It was known as the naughty boys' ship because it tried to turn around the lives of teenage delinquents.
The Clio trained hundreds for life in the royal or merchant navy when it was moored in the Menai Strait off Anglesey from 1877 to 1920.
Now its story is being retold at Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor.
"It was part of local folklore," said the museum's Alun Thomas. "People would say, 'If you don't behave you'll be sent to naughty boys' ship' ".
Here is updated link--I tried it and it seems to work now Sorry!
