Gale's host food and craft fair

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Tanker overturns outside Tesco Cefn Mawr, says report

* The picture from North Wales Live of the overturned tanker. 

North Wales Live is reporting this morning that the Tesco store at Cefn Mawr has been closed after a tanker overturned outside the branch.

The report says it is understood the tanker overturned in high winds brought on by Storm Arwen.

This is an ongoing incident.

* For the full story, see: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/live-tesco-superstore-shut-after-22294672

In Llangollen, a picture has appeared on Facebook of damage to a shed and greenhouse on the Fron Bache allotments.

There is also a picture on Facebook of a tree down across the canal near Trefor, Bridge 37.

Cat Meade posted on Facebook: "Aldi and HB (Home Bargains) closed as power off." 

Tidy Town Team celebrates 500+ hours of unpaid work for the community

Members of the Llangollen Tidy Town Team held their annual Christmas dinner at The Hand last night.

The team, who are all volunteers, were celebrating carrying out more than 500 hours of unpaid community work over the past year ranging from assisting with the remaking of the corner garden of Centenary Square to handling traffic management for Covid vaccination sessions at the health centre.

Storm Arwen devastates town's barrier system

 

Last night's high winds caused by Storm Arwel had a devastating affect on the barriers in the town centre erected around the 2020 project workings.

Almost every piece of the orange plastic fencing was blown down, along the length of Castle Street, the top of Centenary Square and the corner of Bridge Street.

Just after 8am a lone workman from the contractors undertaking the work could be seen starting the job of putting the barriers back into position. 

MP welcomes Free after Three Christmas parking in town

Clwyd South MP Simon Baynes (pictured) has welcomed the return of Denbighshire Council’s Free After Three parking scheme for car parks across the county. 

From November 21 to December 31, certain Denbighshire Council-run town centre car parks will be free for members of the public to use from 3pm every day, in a bid to attract and encourage people to use their local high street during the festive period. 

In Mr Baynes’ Clwyd South constituency, the initiative will be available for the following Council-run car parks:

* Llangollen - Market Street, East Street, Hall Street and Mill Street

•  Corwen - Green Lane

Mr Baynes said: “I very much welcome the return of the Free After Three scheme to car parks in Llangollen and Corwen, which will hopefully not only benefit our local town centres across the festive season but also will make parking more accessible across the county.

"After the serious disruption caused to businesses in Clwyd South due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s more important than ever that we support our local businesses, independent traders and town centres – and this is a great scheme to assist in doing just that.”

Next week's work on town's 2020 project

Work planned for week starting November 29 on the town's 2020 project is: 

• Digging for the new kerb line up from Castle Street east to Oak Street
• Paving from the cenotaph up to Castle Street east
• Paving on Castle Street west heading north toward the junction with Parade Street
• Laying new kerbs up Castle Street east towards Oak Street
• Digging and installing tree pit on Castle Street west

Town's Christmas Celebration cancelled due to weather

* Centenary Square where the entertainment 

was due to be held.

Organisers have reluctantly decided to cancel tomorrow's Celebration of Christmas due to predicted high winds.

A scaled-down version of the town’s annual Christmas Festival, taking account of ongoing pandemic safety measures, was due to be staged on Saturday afternoon featuring a programme of entertainment in Centenary Square.

But town mayor Councillor Austin Cheminais, who also chairs the Christmas Festival Committee, said this morning: "In view of the really bad weather forecast we have very reluctantly decided to cancel the event.

"I've been checking with a number of weather forecasts and they all predict very high winds. In fact, the Met Office is forecasting gusts up to 54mph and the gazebo in which the entertainment programme was to be staged just couldn't have coped with that.

"There was also a major question mark over whether the firework display which was to round off the afternoon could have gone ahead in these conditions."

He added: "We're really sorry to cancel but we've done it just to keep everybody safe.

"We will perhaps organise a post-Christmas event but of course we will let everyone know about that."

Latest information from the festival committee is that the Christmas lights will be turned on around 5pm tomorrow but without the usual ceremony.

* Once again this year the festival committee is hosting its popular Christmas Scarecrow Trail.

Throughout December they are encouraging people to come up with some creative and colourful entries.  

It was held last year and even during the pandemic it managed to attract over 50 inventive entries from all parts of the town.

Cllr Cheminais said: "I knew of 40 locations on the list and there were a lot more out there that I didn't know about.

"I’m hoping to get even more this year as I know how incredibly creative Llangollen people are.

"Santa and his elves will judge the competition in the week leading up to Christmas, and there are two main prizes of £25 plus five runners-up prizes of £10.

"People can help choose the winner by sending a picture of their favourite to: santa@btinternet.com."