Jamie Bowman

Join thousands of people taking part in this year’s RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and help experts create a picture of how our feathered friends are doing. Jamie Bowman reports...

The charity Samaritans have taken over what is known as ‘the most difficult day of the year’, fighting back with a good cuppa.

One family's heartbreaking letters reveal the emotional ordeal of not knowing how their son was, only to discover he had succumbed to his injuries as the Armistice was signed.

To the layman it’s a muddy ditch but the dug-out sections at Chirk Castle are helping archaeologists piece together the history of a king’s legacy. Jamie Bowman digs further...

POP superstars Take That will celebrate their 30th anniversary with a massive UK arena and stadium tour including five dates at Manchester Arena.

IT’S such a clever and simple idea it’s a mystery no one has thought of it before. Take a single house and detail the lives of everyone who has lived there from construction right up to the present day. With home ownership still a British obsession, it’s often strange to think how many people have lived, loved and died in the house you call home.

The statistics are truly alarming. According to the National Survey for Wales 2016-7, obesity in Wales is worse than any other UK nation – 59 per cent of adults are overweight, with 23 per cent classed as obese. Among reception-age children, 26 per cent were found to be overweight or obese during the latest annual Child Measurement Programme in schools, compared to 22 per cent in England. Some 11 per cent of reception-age children were obese in Wales, while across the border the average dropped to nine per cent.

Feeling bloated, broke and battered by the festive party season? Join the club... Christmas is well and truly over and now all there is to look forward to is a cold, dark and dry January. All around the country, people are hitting the halfway mark in their January detoxes and getting to grips with their New Year’s resolutions. But where does this leave the struggling pubs and bars desperate to keep drinkers from the clutches of the Dry January campaign?

Occupying 35 hectares of the Alyn Valley to the south of the village of Rhydymwyn is one of the UK’s most mysterious and fascinating historical sites. At one point more than 2,000 men and women worked at the Rhydymwyn Valley Works where over 100 buildings and an extensive rail network were built about 80 years ago.

Following an 81-date sell-out UK and Ireland tour last year, during which she was in residence at the Leicester Square Theatre London and Underbelly Edinburgh Fringe, and appeared at theatres from Galway to Northampton, the much-loved comedian, author and campaigner Ruby Wax brings her one-woman show Frazzled to Mold’s Theatr Clwyd in April. Outrageously witty, smart and accessible, Wax promises to explore a scientific solution to modern problems, based on her latest best-selling book, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled.