Jamie Bowman

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TV Review: A House Through Time, BBC Two

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 Levellers bring acoustic tour to Wrexham

Quick quiz question: Which band is believed to have played to Glastonbury’s biggest-ever crowd when they headlined the Pyramid Stage on the Friday night in 1994? Oasis? Blur? Pulp? Red Hot Chilli Peppers? Nope. Try again. The answer is in fact Brighton folk-punk group The Levellers, who after years of playing the festival circuit reached the peak of their powers that night when an estimated 300,000 people sang along to anthems such as One Way, Fifteen Years and The Riverflow.

North Wales obesity treatment not up to scratch according to leading doctor

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.

How Winston Churchill's legacy shaped North Wales and Chester

During the early days of the Second World War, with the fall of France imminent, Britain faced its darkest hour as the threat of invasion loomed As the seemingly unstoppable Nazi forces advanced and with the Allied army cornered on the beaches of Dunkirk, the fate of Western Europe hung on the leadership of the newly-appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill.

Pubs and breweries urge drinkers to give Tryanuary a go during dry spell

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?

Ruby Wax bringing mindfulness to Mold

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.