25 years ago this week in Flintshire

STALLHOLDERS were worried about the future of Flint's 700-year-old open air market, pictured, next to the town hall due to the recession and mass unemployment.

PUPILS of Mold's Bryn Glas School for the Deaf and Contact Club were thrilled with the delivery of their £7,000 Variety Club Sunshine Coach.

AN APPLICATION for a single storey extension to Sychdyn Primary School was approved by Clwyd Planning Committee.

TRAVELLERS living under the constant threat of eviction from a windswept corner of Buckley Common hit out at Clwyd County Council for failing to provide an official campsite for them.

CLWYD Highways Department expressed support for the Department of Transport's national campaign to curb drinking and driving over the festive season.

THE Citizens Advice Bureau in Flint Town Hall was condemned by the organisation's full-time officials as being cramped and totally unsuitable.

THE Halkyn Countryside Commission announced plans to reclaim more than six acres of land during 1984 at the old Pen-y-Bryn lead mine.

CLWYD councillors were told that out of 3,500 archaeological sites in the county, only about 350 were legally protected.

A COMPANY manufacturing freezers announced it was opening a factory in Flint and creating 150 jobs in the process.

ALYN and Deeside Council pleaded with the Government not to press ahead with spending cuts that would curtail the construction of small factory units in Sealand.

ONLY three handicapped and elderly people took advantage of a special evening shopping spree at Woolworth's in Shotton.