A FORMER nursing home matron once cleared of the manslaughter of a patient in her care has been struck off after being found guilty of misconduct. Avola Almond, 68, of Dolgellau (pictured) was removed from the nursing register this week after a disciplinary hearing found she had worked as a nurse for 18 months at Bodawen Nursing Home, near Porthmadog while unregistered and that she had falsely claimed she was qualified to perform the role of a matron.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council found Almond, who was not present and did not have any legal representation, guilty of three counts of misconduct.
ABERYSTWYTH’S Bonmarché shop is to close, with the loss of one full-time and nine part-time jobs. The shop in Great Darkgate Street is one of 160 Bonmarché shops which will be closed following the purchase of the clothing chain by private equity group Sun European Partners. But it will continue to run 230 stores.
Staff in the shop, which has been open for over eight years, have been told they will be paid up to Friday, 3 February. Aberystwyth shop manager Samantha Williams, the only full-time employee, said that staff were told of the closure at 5pm on Monday. She said: “I expect to hear from the regional manager later today (Tuesday), She will probably tell us an actual closing date.
STAFF at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth could be at risk of redundancy, after it was revealed that the organisation will undergo a period of restructuring due to financial problems. The Cambrian News has this week learned that the centre’s management board is discussing plans to restructure CAT, and has not ruled out the possibility of ‘some’ redundancies as a result.
Claims made by an anonymous source that the entire workforce - with the exception of the management board - had been put on redundancy notice were swiftly denied by the organisation, as was a claim that managers had recently received a substantial pay increase.
POLICE are treating the death of a 67-year-old mother of two found dead at her home in a village near Llanybydder this week as murder. The body of the woman, named locally as Irene Lawless, was found at a property on the Bryndulais Estate in Llanllwni.
Police would not say who found the body or when it was found, or the nature of the woman’s injuries, but they confirmed that they have started a murder inquiry and two people have been taken into custody for questioning.
