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Fitness Club's in Good Heart ; Week of Exertions Raises Healthy Sum for Charity

KEEP fit enthusiasts and their instructors at JJB fitness club in Bangor raised over pounds 500 for the British Heart Foundation (BHF) thanks to a series of events held last week. A pyjama day where all the clubshop staff dressed up in their bedclothes proved popular as customers enthusiastically parted with their hard-earned thanks to the spectacle.

Cutest Kids

Fflur Haf Jones, aged 16 months, loves her books and here she does some reading at the day nursery in Denbigh. Many thanks to mum Bethan for the photo And they call it puppy love as one-year-old Shannon says hello to one of her favorite little dogs. Many thanks to David Harvey, of Bagillt, Flintshire for the shot

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LAST week's caption competition saw Father Peter Macleod-Miller, 43, from Barrow, Suffolk alongside his donkey Holly Berry whom he takes into church for morning prayers each day at the town's All Saints Church (left). Father Peter often calls on his donkeys, lambs, goats and alpacas to liven up church services and uses them when working in schools and making pastoral visits. The best line, winning pounds 10, came from M Lewis of Y Ffor, Gwynedd with 'Let us bray.' This week (right), Bristol z...

Readers' Pets

Here is a picture of Fflos, a border collie from Aberffraw, Anglesey. Photo taken by Karen Hughes This is a photo of our cat tigger napping on our bed, say Roy and Margaret Prosser, of Towyn, Abergele

Veteran Verve

ENTHUSIASTS turned up from far and wide to see some of the finest examples of Veteran and Edwardian vehicles gathered at Beaufort Park Hotel near Mold recently for a North West Veteran Car Club weekend. Owners from across the North West took along their motors, dating from 1903 to 1915, for a 42-mile route starting from the hotel in New Brighton then on to Holywell, Trelawnyd and Afonwen Craft Centre, before returning to the hotel in the late afternoon.

Floral Flourishes Earn Wales in Bloom Accolades for Dedicated Gardeners

GREEN-FINGERED parks and council staff were awarded for their excellence at a reception held recently at Tan Llan Nursery. The efforts of the team who work for Conwy Council helped Colwyn Bay and Llandudno achieve so much in the Wales in Bloom competition. And it was a double celebration for two members of the team at the event, Cledwyn Tomas and Elwyn Roberts were both awarded certificates to mark 40 years of service A HAVEN for homeless and vulnerable people in Colwyn Bay has won a Wales in...

Bride and Joy

Emma Parry and Paul Mulgrew, both of Deganwy, were married at The Imperial Hotel, Llandudno. Picture: BAXTERS, LLANDUDNO

People Detective: Alex On Mission to Honour War Dead ; N.Wales Roots for Royal Navy Man On Memorial

WHAT started as a hobby for Alex Mettler from Tavistock, Devon has now become a mission that has led him to Anglesey; Llanfairpwll to be precise. He and his colleague Gerry Woodcock recently published a book (www.tavistockwar memorial.co.uk) recounting the lives and deaths of the 119 men of Tavistock who fell in World War One and whose names are inscribed on the Tavistock War Memorial in Devon (pictured right).

Social Diary ; a Week in the Nightlife of the North West

THE "Love Kylie" Fashion Show for Breast Cancer Care was held at Peach Designer Wear on Thursday. Models were supplied by Impact Modelling Agency, with make-up provided by Peaches and Cream and hair by the new Liverpool salon, In Posh. The party for the show was held at Sintillate, at the Newz Bar, which is proving to be a very popular night.

Legal Week: Barristers Take On New Cases After Promise of Legal Aid Review

BARRISTERS who refused to take on new cases in the legal aid pay row are returning to work across the North West. Following disruption in recent weeks, Bar leaders said individual barristers would now accept legal aid cases pending the outcome of a government review of the system.

Legal Week: Beat Bad Debts

AN INNOVATIVE approach to business debt recovery has been launched with the introduction of Increment by Merseyside law firm Lees Lloyd Whitley. Like other debt recovery services, Increment offers small businesses the opportunity to recover debts on a no win, no fee basis, but businesses do not pay a fee for this service.

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Viva: Bon Fire Fright

ROCKETS zip through the red-tinged night sky before exploding into a crackling shower of colour, while young eyes look up in amazement at Catherine Wheels spinning atsupersonic speeds. For children that magical night is here after weeks of wonder at stories of Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. Wrapped in woolly hats, scarfs and wellies, the excitement increases as each step through the cold autumn night brings closer the whipping, licking flames of the bonfire, the fun of treacle toffee and ...

The Debate: Feed Back ; Last Week We Asked: Should Fathers Receive Six Months' Paternity Leave

"I'm all for supporting new families but extra paternity rights are just putting even more of a strain on businesses. "It also alienates other workers who have to cover while their colleagues are off.

The Debate: Should Liverpool Have a Five-Star Hotel ; Sam Lister Presents the Pros and Cons for Investing in a Five-Star Hotel in Liverpool

EBATNDUSTRY experts predict Liverpool will not have a major five- star hotel in time for Capital of Culture. They believe demand for top-end luxury accommodation, which generally costs upwards of pounds 300 a night, would not be sustainable in the next three years.

Viva: Life Line ; Solving Your Problems

I AM 19 years old and my bust just keeps on growing. I know many girls would feel glad if they had a 34G bra size but I loathe it. It's not as if they are firm - they are great floppy things that hang down to my waist like an old woman's. And although I used to do a lot of sport, I can't because they get in the way. I can't buy pretty bras and I get terrible backache, but when I asked my doctor for a breast reduction he said I'd have to wait until I'm older You are not the only young woman to...

David Harters: It Hardly Seems Worth the Trouble of Going Home

DURING a life darkened by many sorrows but decorated by the ever- glowing light of her children's rare triumphs, my late mother received presents on her birthday or at Christmas with a sly little smile that spoke from the grey of her eyes about the silliness of it all. "Ochh noo, you shouldn't have bothered," she would say in her Scottish accent, which had clung to her like the paint on a kirk door for more than 70 years in England. And then, surrounded by the family, she would rip the wrappi...