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Jan 16, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Easedale
In a small picturesque community on the edge of Wrexham county, a new so-called "tourist-attraction" has popped up. Pothole Land, just above Pontfadog in the Ceiriog Valley, is a tongue-in-cheek response to what one resident has called "years of concerted council inaction" in maintaining their roads. Another, Russell Kirk, who lives at the top of a lane with what he said were the "widest, deepest and longest" potholes in Wales, described it as "treacherous" and getting "progressively worse".
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Easedale
When Ruby-May Walker started her last year of school, her friends began talking about the event they'd all been waiting for - the prom. While it's not until June, thinking about prom dresses and even shopping for them, can start very early. But Ruby-May, who is 15 and from Wrexham, says that as a plus size girl, she didn't feel she could look forward to it in the same way. She felt anxious about what she could wear - are there enough options out there for all?
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sarah Easedale
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Easedale
Generate Key TakeawaysThe teddy bear of a stillborn baby is the star of a book written by a mother dealing with grief. Ellie Harley-Jones, 31, began drawing in the weeks after she lost Theo in 2021 on the suggestion of her mum, after she was left struggling "to do anything". While Ellie, from Valley on Anglesey, described the process as cathartic, the book became a way for others to approach her about what she had gone through.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
correiobraziliense.com.br | Sarah Easedale
Uma mulher no Reino Unido foi parar no hospital achando que iria morrer, depois de se automedicar com remédios para perda de peso comprados no mercado clandestino. Paige Roberts tem 24 anos de idade. Seu médico a orientou a perder peso e ela procurou medicações antiobesidade nas redes sociais. Ela aplicou em si própria sua primeira injeção de uma medicação identificada como semaglutida, um remédio contra diabetes vendido legalmente apenas com receita médica.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
terra.com.br | Sarah Easedale
Uma mulher no Reino Unido foi parar no hospital achando que iria morrer, depois de se automedicar com remédios para perda de peso comprados no mercado clandestino. Paige Roberts tem 24 anos de idade. Seu médico a orientou a perder peso e ela procurou medicações antiobesidade nas redes sociais. Ela aplicou em si própria sua primeira injeção de uma medicação identificada como semaglutida, um remédio contra diabetes vendido legalmente apenas com receita médica.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Easedale
Black market weight-loss drugs left a woman thinking she was going to die after do-it-yourself injections put her in hospital. Paige Roberts, 24, looked for anti-obesity medication on social media after her GP advised her to lose weight. After the first self-administered injection of what was told was semaglutide - diabetes medication which is illegal to sell without a prescription - she started vomiting and feeling dizzy and sick.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Easedale
Buying a home on a brand new estate is meant to offer peace of mind, free from the potential pitfalls of older homes. But people living on Fern Meadow in Wrexham have been plagued by issues including unfinished roads and pavements, flooding, and loose sockets and holes in their ceilings. Shelby Brown's five-year-old son Riley was injured when he fell down a broken drain cover while trick or treating.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Easedale
Amanda Baker has to make sure she and her dog Eddie are home before dark [BBC]As Bonfire Night approaches and the days get shorter, Amanda Baker's heart sinks. For Amanda, who is partially-sighted and supported by her guide dog, Eddie, it means she will have to stay home every evening to protect him from his terror of fireworks, because they never know when they might go off.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Easedale
The charity says while the soot can be wiped off, the smell of the fire cannot [BBC]Thousands of pounds worth of toys and gifts, which were meant as Christmas presents for children living in poverty have been damaged in a fire. A charity worker from Wrexham, who has been collecting the toys, said she "didn't think they could pick themselves up", after the loss.
