Twelve people were arrested for drug offences at the Gottwood festival in Llanfaethlu. More than 5,000 revellers attended the annual electronic music event on the Carreglwyd estate from Thursday 6th – Friday 10th June. Six people were arrested on suspicion of drug dealing and six more were held for driving under the influence of drugs. […]
Four men have been questioned on suspicion of affray following a disturbance in Holyhead. They were arrested on Tuesday during an alleged public order incident on the Tan-yr-Efail estate. Several police vehicles, including the Cheshire and North Wales Police dog unit attended the scene. The four men have now been released on bail pending further […]
Three people were taken to hospital after a serious two-vehicle crash near Pentraeth. The A5025 was closed following the head-on collision at around 9.10pm on Tuesday night (4th June) – it was reopened almost six hours later at around 3am. The three casaulties were taken by ambulance to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor to be assessed […]
A disgraced footballer who attacked his ex-girlfriend while driving dangerously through Anglesey and Gwynedd has been jailed for ten months. Vincent Burke, a former Manchester City hopeful, admitted assaulting Emily Clarke, knocking her unconscious as they drove home from Llangefni last September. A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court rejected a defence plea for a suspended […]
A pensioner has died following a road crash in Valley earlier this month. A man in his seventies was driving a white Peugeot car when it crashed on Gorad Road at around 3.20pm on Monday 20th May. He was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor but later transferred to a specialist trauma unit in Stoke […]
Detectives in the Gerald Corrigan murder hunt have carried out a series of raids in and around Holyhead. Crime scene investigators carried out searches at four addresses in the town early on Tuesday morning (4th June) – but no arrests were made. Mr Corrigan was shot with a crossbow outside his remote home near South […]
Team Ynys Môn have named their final squads for this month’s Inter-Island Games football. Twenty men and eighteen women have made the cut to represents the hosts of the week-long international tournament, which kicks off on Sunday 16th June. Porthmadog goalkeeper Paul Pritchard will captain the men’s squad with Amlwch Town Ladies’ Laura Eynon as […]
An inquest has been opened and adjourned into the death of a hill walker in the Ogwen Valley. The body of Mark Jenner from Circenster, Gloucestershire was discovered by a fell runner on the north ridge of Tryfan last Tuesday morning (29th May). It’s believed the 56 year-old died the day before after suffering a […]
A coroner says he’s unable to determine what led to a road crash, which led to the deaths of a woman and her young niece. Anna Williams (22) from Penrhyndeudraeth and six-month old Mili Wyn Ginniver, from Blaenau Ffestiniog, were being driven in a car on the A487 when it hit a lorry near Gellilydan […]
