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Wrexham.com, established in 2011, is a dedicated platform that focuses on Wrexham and its nearby areas. We provide news sourced by our own team, alongside community opinions, features, and highlights. Our content is created by locals who know the area well, and we operate from our office right in the heart of town. We don't limit ourselves to specific sales areas or geographic boundaries; if it’s relevant to the community in and around Wrexham, we’ll cover it. We share updates through social media and publish more detailed articles on our website at any time. Importantly, we are not funded by the local council, government, or affiliated with any major media group (to clarify, we are not associated with Trinity Mirror, BBC, Leader/NWN/MOJO, etc.). Our main goal is to remain independent, sustainable, and genuinely beneficial to the people of Wrexham.

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Planning department and councillors working to rebuild “fractured” relationship

1 week ago | wrexham.com | Alec Doyle

Wrexham’s planning department says it is rebuilding key relationships with councillors after Audit Wales described them as ‘fractured’. Last year the organisation, which assesses and tracks how public money is spent in Wales, carried out a governance review of Wrexham Council’s planning department at the height of the dispute over the adoption of the Local Development Plan (LDP).
Wrexham Council warned over fairness of hybrid working policy

1 week ago | wrexham.com | Alec Doyle

Wrexham Council has been warned that its new hybrid policy for staff must be fair or staff may leave after initial recommendations were put before scrutiny. Leader of the Labour group Cllr Dana Davies addressed Wrexham County Borough Council’s Customers, Performance, Resources and Governance Scrutiny Committee and warned officers and councillors that they must not have double standards for staff and elected members.
Plans for ‘crumbling’ Senedd offices face scrutiny

3 weeks ago | wrexham.com | Chris Haines

A commissioner warned current Senedd offices are “crumbling” and becoming “no longer fit for purpose” amid a multi-million-pound search for new office space. Hefin David, representing the Senedd commission, which is responsible for the estate, appeared before the finance committee for scrutiny of the “Cardiff Bay 2032” project.
Vital £1.5m heritage grant in jeopardy due to Wrexham Council’s delay

1 month ago | wrexham.com | Alec Doyle

A £1.5m heritage grant to improve access to the Clywedog Valley is under threat according to local councillors because Wrexham Council has not signed Nant Mill over to a community trust. Coedpoeth Community Council this week unanimously passed a resolution calling on Wrexham County Borough Council to urgently agree to the community asset transfer (CAT) or long-term lease of the Nant Mill Country Park to the Nant Mill Community Trust.
Plaid Cymru demand for ‘fair share’ from HS2 voted down

1 month ago | wrexham.com | Chris Haines

The Senedd rejected Plaid Cymru calls to demand HS2 be redesignated as an England-only project to unlock billions of pounds of consequential funding for Wales. Senedd members voted 42-12 against a Plaid Cymru motion on HS2, a high-speed railway from London to Birmingham, following a debate on March 12. The project was classified as a Wales-and-England project in 2015 by David Cameron’s UK Government despite not an inch of track crossing the border.
Senedd Members hit out at UK Government plans to cut benefits

1 month ago | wrexham.com | Chris Haines

Sweeping £5bn cuts to benefits will have a devastating impact on disabled people in Wales, Senedd members warned. Sioned Williams, Plaid Cymru’s shadow social justice secretary, raised concerns about UK Government proposals for the biggest shake-up of the welfare system in a generation.
Plans unveiled for VE Day commemorations in Wrexham and Flintshire

1 month ago | wrexham.com | Alec Doyle

Councils across Wrexham and Flintshire have begun to unveil their plans to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. The events will mark the unconditional surrender of Nazi German troops across Europe to the Allies in World War II on May 8, 1945 sparking widespread celebrations across the war-weary Allied Nations. Outside Europe the war continued until Japan became the final Axis power to surrender later that year on September 2.
Irreversible sight loss risk grows as thousands languish on Welsh waiting lists

1 month ago | wrexham.com | Chris Haines

Tens of thousands of people at the greatest risk of irreversible sight loss are languishing on waiting lists for too long, with services woefully under-resourced, a committee heard. The Senedd’s health committee took evidence from clinicians, charities and patients as part of a short inquiry into ophthalmology in Wales on March 20.
Wrexham Council doubles down on commitment to rural bus routes

1 month ago | wrexham.com | Alec Doyle

Wrexham Council has doubled down on its guarantee that it won’t give money it is investing in the rural bus network to Welsh Government under proposed changes. On Tuesday the authority’s Lead Member for Housing and Climate Change Cllr David Bithell assured the council’s Executive Board that it would continue to support the recovery of rural bus routes from historic underfunding and the collapse of two local operators.
Wrexham councillors to receive above inflation pay rise

1 month ago | wrexham.com | Alec Doyle

Wrexham councillors are set to receive an inflation-busting 5.92% pay rise after a recommendation from the body that sets councillor pay. Less than a month after Wrexham County Borough Council received a reduced Welsh Local Government settlement and confirmed a council tax increase of 9.5%, it has been presented with the Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales’ (IRPW) final report.