Flintshire Memories: 30 years ago this week

By Flintshire Chronicle on Sep 14, 09 01:58 PM in 1900-1999

ISLE of Man firm Thermo Skyships announced plans to build airships costing £6m each on Deeside Industrial Park, employing 800 people.

VILLAGERS in Milwr met to prepare opposition against a proposed route for the £9m Holywell bypass.

ALYN and Deeside councillors rejected a request by the Welsh Language Society for signs at Deeside Leisure Centre to be in Welsh as well as English.

UP TO 2,000 Clwyd teachers prepared to vote on industrial action against county council spending cuts and decisions to cut teaching staff numbers.

AFTER sealing approval from Delyn's planning committee, The £750,000 plan to transform Greenfield Valley into a major tourist attraction was recommended to Welsh Secretary of State Nicholas Edwards MP.

POPULAR comedy Bedroom Farce by Alan Aykbourn was performed by Milford Haven's Torch Theatre Company at Theatr Clwyd.

LOW redundancy settlement figures for Shotton steelworkers were revealed, alarming councillors who urged to continue the fight against the steel plant's closure.

ALMOST half of Clwyd's jobless were under-25 and 30% of those out of work were teenagers, figures revealed.

COUNCILLOR Quentin Dodd warned of a rash of open cast mines springing up across Clwyd if the county council failed to win the fight to stop a site being developed on traditional agricultural land at Pont Einion, between Northop and Northop Hall.

IN RUGBY, Mold's first team beat Caernarfon 13-0 to retain an unbeaten start to the new season.

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