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The new Welsh drama looking at the second homes crisis affecting young people

The play has been created by Mared Llywelyn who is from Pen Llŷn in Gwynedd - a place that has seen an influx of houses being bought as holiday homes in local communities in recent years.

Wales Online

The hour-by-hour guide to where it's going to snow in Wales on Tuesday and Wednesday

Bands of snow move repeatedly across the nation on Tuesday and Wednesday with lots of sunny spells

Wales Online

Ministry of Justice shared intimate details of victim's anguish to her stalker

Rhianon Bragg from Gwynedd said that the MoJ's sharing of such details to Gareth Wyn Jones has provided him with more "ammunition".

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Gwynedd raises council tax premium on second homes to 150%

Councillors to use extra £3m expected to be raised by the move to tackle area’s ‘immoral’ homelessness crisis

The Guardian - UK

Sheep farm with llamas and ponies named the UK’s best family campsite

Tyn-yr-Onnen Farm and Campsite in Waunfawr, Gwynedd has stunning views of Mount Snowdon and hundreds of acres that are home to donkeys, llamas, pigs, ponies, chickens, ducks and turkeys

Daily Mirror

Welsh sheep farm with cosy pods named best family-friendly campsite in the UK

Campsites.co.uk has crowned Tyn-yr-Onnen Farm and Campsite in Gwynedd best in its camping and glamping awards 2022

Wales Online

‘People are living in vans’: Porthmadog considers vexed issue of second homes

As final vote on raising council tax to tackle homelessness looms, some worry tourism will be affected if people sell up

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Council at centre of the second home crisis reveals plans for massive hike in council tax bills

The rise for people owning second home will be introduced in the spring next year

Wales Online

Second-home owners in Gwynedd face 150% council tax premium

‘Immoral’ that one in 10 properties in area is a second home while homelessness has increased by 47%, say councillors

The Guardian - UK

Multi-million pound investment at Gwynedd healthcare site to secure and create 500 jobs

Siemens Healthineers has announced a healthcare centre of excellence in Llanberis

Birmingham Post

UK nuclear body backs plans to develop a new small-scale nuclear project in Wales

NDA has signed a memorandum of understanding with Cwmni Egino to support their development of a new small-scale nuclear project in Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd

Wales Online

The foster carers at the front line of Wales' young refugee crisis

We spoke to foster carers in Wales who have opened up their homes to welcome children fleeing their homelands as it's estimated more than 100 young refugees are arriving in the country every year

Wales Online

Gwynedd council calls for abolition of title Prince of Wales

Councillors in north Wales vote to express opposition to ‘thorn in nation for centuries’

The Guardian - UK

Welsh council first to consult on quadrupling council tax for second home owners

Gwynedd Council is looking at using new powers to massively hike council tax on second homes

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‘It’s about keeping places alive’: Wales’s radical second-homes policy

Measures aim to preserve communities and keep more homes available for locals but critics say they are ‘anti-tourist’

Wales Online

Entire Welsh slate village sold to London real estate company

The deal for Aberllefenni in Gwynedd has now been secured - with the village's 16 properties snapped up

Wales Online

Urgent warning issued as 15 beachgoers left in excruciating pain by tiny poisonous fish

The weever fish lurks in the sand and injects a painful venom when it is stood on by unsuspecting beachgoers

Daily Mirror

Urgent beach warning as 15 people left in agony after being stung by tiny fish

Dangerous weever fish - that leave stings as bad as childbirth - have been spotted on the beaches of North Wales, after worried parents were warned by coastguards to take precautions

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Beach warning after girl's foot 'bubbles up with poison'

There have been a number of reports of beachgoers being left in agony

The Guardian - UK

‘I wanted my children to grow up here’: how Airbnb is ruining local communities in north Wales

Families in Gwynedd county are being evicted as swathes of property are converted to short-term rentals for the tourism industry – and the situation being played out across the country. Can anything be done to help?

Daily Mirror

Family at 'breaking point' amid difficulties caring for son with rare genetic disorder

Hari Jones, six, from Gwynedd, has X Linked Myotubular Myopathy (XLMTM), which affects about one in every 50,000 male births - he cannot walk or sit up and is connected to a life support machine that needs constant monitoring

Wales Online

The Welsh villages where an influx of second homeowners are steadily forcing locals out

Gwynedd is the area the Welsh Government wants to help with its clampdown, but can their scheme actually work?

Wales Online

The beautiful Welsh place names that prove they aren't 'weird'

Most of Wales’ place names are in the Welsh language, but there are also origins from the English, French, Irish, Flemish, Latin and Norse language

Wales Online

Woman dies after 'waiting an hour' for ambulance as closest stations 'had no available crew'

Liz Saville Roberts MP has called for an urgent investigation into the emergency services' response to the incident in Barmouth, Gwynedd, on Sunday, July 10

Birmingham Post

New decarbonisation hub in Gwynedd to create over 130 jobs

The new hub will be based in the 120,000 sq ft former Northwood tissue factory in Penygroes

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