All news by author: Nic North

FOR the Slade family, Boots, their black and white cat, was a Godsend during the covid-19 lockdown.The moggy kept the couple’s two young children oc

SQUADS of "cuckoo" drug mules are leaving locals "too scared to speak" as a leafy town becomes the UK's new gang capital.Forty nine minutes is all it

MILLIONS of rugby fans will be bracing themselves for another action-packed weekend as the penultimate Six Nations matches play out.But for some local

NEIGHBOURS have expressed fury after one resident installed a 10ft dinosaur in his front garden.Locals claim the "eyesore" prehistoric sculpture has l

LOCAL residents are in a spin over new parking plans in a busy town.They are being asked to pay £70 a year to park their cars outside their own homes

A STREET known for being one of the UK's most notorious red light districts has now become so run-down that even pimps refuse to work there.Sex worker

DEPRESSED residents say their city looks like 'Sports Direct built a theme park and Greggs did the catering' - and they're desperate to leave.Locals i

FED-UP locals say they have been driven round the bend by filming for a new blockbuster TV series starring David Tennant, Danny Dyer and Emily Atack.T

ITS rugged beauty and promise of solitude has been a draw for those seeking a simpler life since the Bronze Age.Across the centuries, tiny Flat Holm i

A PAIR of EV owners say they feel "stitched up" after buying the car to do their bit for the environment only to be confronted with major issues.Georg

When David Burgess scrubbed himself down for the final time at the coal mine where he’d worked since the age of 16, he was promised the “white hea

WHEN she gets home from her job as a carer at 9pm, the last thing mother-of-two Elaine wants to do is cook a meal.Her shift started at 6.30am and tomo

WITH its sandy, sickle-shaped shoreline and sprawling clifftop golf course, Nefyn on the north Wales coast is a dream place to live.Unfortunately for

A COMMUNITY says it has been left living “in terror” after a spate of viciousdogattacks.The multiple maulings have claimed the lives o

IN its early 20th century heyday, Barry’s bustling docks were powering the Empire, exporting more than 11 million tonnes of coal around the globe.To

A TRIO of Welsh gastro pubs within just 30 minutes of each other have made a prestigious list of the best boozers in Britain.The Felin Fach Griffin, T

RESIDENTS in one of Britain's poshest villages say it has turned into a ghost town.Abersoch, on the south east corner of the Llŷn Peninsula in North

EVER felt like you need a break from the modern world?Well look no further than the Royal Oak in Flint, North Wales, where mobile phones are banned, T

RESIDENTS on Britain's most colourful street say its vibrant façade hides a dark secret.Purple, yellow and green houses - some covered in murals - st