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Wepre Park: Plans to revive old hall and gardens need your help

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 11:47 UK time, Monday, 31 May 2010

Friends of are asking for people to share any old photos or documents to do with the time the country park was once a private estate.

Old photos of Wepre Hall and estate, courtesy Friends of Wepre

The info will help in the Friends' formal application for Lottery money - from the fund - to help with the restoration of original features in the 160 acre park and woodland.

Gilly Seddon and Tom Woodall from , based at , are hoping people will get in touch, explaining application judges want to see evidence of how the park used to look.

"If grant aid can be sourced, it would mean the restoration of some of the original features to their former glory," they say.

So, what did the estate and park look like in its original form?

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Inspired by Moel Famau, Jubliee Tower and the Clwydian Range

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 08:30 UK time, Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Moel Famau and Jubilee Tower

more in the about over the next few months as as an and October is the 's 200th anniversary.

Of late I've been working on our first story, ; editing a short film, ; finding weblinks, tagged ; as well as managing a of fans of via .

Whilst I haven't been able to include in our story everything I've gleaned, I thought I'd share my other finds here.

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Top 10 excuses for illegal parking, 40 manhole covers nicked, and other stories in the Press

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 12:16 UK time, Thursday, 20 May 2010

- North Wales Weekly News
A UFO sighting is just one of a long list of absurd excuses revealed recently from motorists failing to pay parking fines.

- Flintshire Chronicle
A cavern next to a children's play area in Hawarden should be filled in to prevent a fatality, says a community councillor.

- Leader
A dog has been given a suspended death sentence after biting a Holywell woman.

- Daily Post
Bride-to-be Ruth Jones feared her Turkish honeymoon would be spent alone after fiancé Laurence Ballam's passport was in a bag that fell off his motorbike on the A55 dual carriageway.

- Leader
About 40 metal manhole covers, worth about £150 each, have been stolen from Flintshire's road network.

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Local groups awarded grants to support their work

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 13:11 UK time, Monday, 17 May 2010

Children in Need today announces the latest round of grants with £60,000 coming to two local groups:-

Prestatyn Cricket Club, Prestatyn - £25,500
The cash will help a project to work with young people to increase their confidence and self esteem, and improve well being by enabling them to play cricket and involving them in social activities.

Women's Aid Delyn, Holywell - £35,290
The project provides information and support to children and young people suffering from the effects of domestic abuse.

Aside from Children in Need, there are other stories of payouts today.

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The 'stupid things' motorists do, how a dog saves Nan nightly and other stories in the Press

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 11:24 UK time, Wednesday, 12 May 2010

- Daily Post
Kissing a passenger, watching TV on the dashboard, and taking photographs were just some of the stupid things madcap motorists have been caught doing behind the wheel, say police.

- Denbighshire Visitor
Prestatyn is celebrating after its beach retained Blue Flag status but there was disappointment for Rhyl beach, where councillors are considering whether to build a new seawater spa and waterpark, which was not included.

- Rhyl Journal
A major new medical centre opens in Rhyl on Monday with a pharmacy, health visitors, district nurses, midwifes, speech and language therapists and new facilities.

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Soldier sees son for first time, couple win £25,000 and other stories in the press

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 11:58 UK time, Thursday, 6 May 2010

- Daily Post
Royal Welsh Fusilier Danny Hughes, 19, left on a five-month tour of duty to just days before his fiancee Jennifer, 17, was due to give birth to their first child.
- Leader

- Flintshire Chronicle
Alison Piercy, 47, is believed to have suffered an allergic reaction while tending hives at Kelsterton Lane, Connah's Quay, last month.

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