A £40 sensor that will alert a farmer through text messaging when a field gate has been left open and livestock are at risk of straying has been developed
Hector Lloyd-Jones died at his home near Prion, near Denbigh, on January 9. He leaves behind his wife, Vicky, daughter Cathryn, stepchildren Gen and Cai and his brother, Elphin. The private funeral service will be at St Asaph Crematorium this Friday and donations in lieu of flowers will go to the Wales Air Ambulance. After a spell working on the Western Mail, Mr Lloyd-Jones joined the Denbighshire Free Press in the 1970s, initially as the deputy editor and then editor. Later in his career, he was training officer and also took responsibility for health and safety matters at North Wales Newspapers who then owned the Free Press, the Evening Leader and a string of weekly titles, including the Welsh language paper, Y Cymro.
THE family of popular councillor and former Cheshire Police officer Kevin Hughes have paid tribute to him after he died yesterday morning following a long battle against Covid-19. The Chester-born 63-year-old, who was also an ex-journalist, leaves a wife, Sally, with whom he celebrated 40 years of marriage three years ago, sons Chris, Steve and Andy, and seven grandchildren. He lived in Gwernymynydd and was a Flintshire county councillor serving the area. Kevin attended Chester s Queen’s Park High School and in a varied career was a police diver for Cheshire Constabulary before working as head diver at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port after his retirement.