PLANS to erect a bronze statue and memorial garden will celebrate the long history between Wrexham and the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The £80,000 project will feature a bronze life-size sculpture of a Royal Welch Fusilier with the regimental goat in a flood-lit landscaped. The statue will be created by artist Nick Elphick of Llandudno. The Royal Welch Fusiliers Parade from St Giles Church at Wrexham. Offa Community Council is working in partnership with representatives from the Royal Welch Fusiliers (RWF) and other organisations including Wrexham County Borough Council and the Wales and West Housing Association on the project. As part of the project, Offa community councillor David Jones has been researching the history of the regiment and its long association with Wrexham dating back more than 300 years.
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THERE are plans to erect an £80,000 bronze statue honouring Wrexham s long and proud association with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Offa Community Council has approached the Heritage Lottery Fund to secure funding for the project, which would be sited in the Kingsmill Road area. Neighbouring Caia Park Community Council has been approached to see if it would support the project. The issue was discussed at the latest meeting of Caia Park councillors held on Zoom. Clerk Michael Morris described the request for financial assistance as an usual one before telling councillors Offa was planning to submit a grant application for the project.
A HARDWORKING man who had overcome cancer died after injuring his head in a fall. The inquest into the death of Philip Andrew McCleary at County Hall in Ruthin heard that he was a kind man who doted on his children and twin grandsons. His daughter Lisa told in inquest how her father had been diagnosed with bowel cancer but, after surgery, he had been given the all clear and required no further treatment. The family felt dad could finally get on with his life again, she told the inquest. At the time of his death on September 25, last year, he was working as a cleaner at Wetherspoons in Wrexham and was lodging with Lorraine Hewitt and Raymond Braisdell in East Avenue, Garden Village, Wrexham.