Prince Philip died aged 99 on Friday, April 9, two months before his 100th birthday. Gerry Frobisher, a town councillor for Meliden, who left his role as the volunteering and wellbeing development officer (youth lead) with Denbighshire Voluntary Services Council (DVSC) in 2018 after 18 years, has attended four garden palace parties over the years and one Buckingham Palace reception. The volunteer for North Wales Young Dragons, who met Prince Charles when he was appointed MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours and invested with it by Prince Charles in 2007, said: “It is such sad news about Prince Philip passing. “As a family we have met him several times over the years. He was with the Queen when I chatted with her during her visit to Venue Cymru in the early 2000’s - I cannot recall the date.
Prince Philip died aged 99 on Friday, April 9, two months before his 100th birthday. Gerry Frobisher, a town councillor for Meliden, who left his role as the volunteering and wellbeing development officer (youth lead) with Denbighshire Voluntary Services Council (DVSC) in 2018 after 18 years, has attended four garden palace parties over the years and one Buckingham Palace reception. The volunteer for North Wales Young Dragons, who met Prince Charles when he was appointed MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours and invested with it by Prince Charles in 2007, said: “It is such sad news about Prince Philip passing. “As a family we have met him several times over the years. He was with the Queen when I chatted with her during her visit to Venue Cymru in the early 2000’s - I cannot recall the date.
FEARS were raised that if a county council were to take on a historic landmark, money would have to be constantly ‘thrown’ at it. During the Ordinary Meeting of Abergele Town Council on Thursday, March 4, members discussed the growing desire to protect Kinmel Hall after campaigners said it had been “left to rot”. Town council members agreed that a charge against the building or enforcement action, such as a compulsory purchase order that could see it transferred into the ownership of Conwy County Borough Council, was not the route anyone wanted to venture down at this stage. Councillor Charlie McCoubrey said: “In terms of putting charge on the building, the building sold for a million and a half last time. It is probably worth a lot less than that now.
A FAMILY has paid tribute to a committed coastal newspaper editor who had been in the industry for more than 50 years. Andrew Martin, who was living in Conwy Valley at the time of his death, started his newspaper career in 1968. His first job had been in printing. He did this for six months before securing a job as junior reporter on The Banbury Advertiser. After a couple of years, he got a reporting job on the Banbury Guardian as a sports reporter. He worked for Radio Oxford reporting on the local football team Banbury United. He then moved to Malvern, Worcestershire, where he was made editor of the Malvern Gazette before becoming editor of the Evesham Journal and then, the Worcester Evening News.