A MAJOR employer in Blaenau Ffestiniog has announced that it will be making 10 redundancies.
The REHAU factory, which produces PVC-U window and door systems, announced on Monday that the job cuts will take place next month.
The redundancies will be spread across production, admin and support roles.
The company has expressed the hope that as many of the redundancies as possible will be voluntary.
A LLŶN village is being torn apart by plans to build a wind turbine, with claims this week that protesters’ posters are being torn down.
A group of objectors in Llanaelhaearn are fighting plans by community group Antur Aelhaearn to build a 67-metre wind turbine near the village and have erected posters throughout the area.
A number of residents have placed antiwind turbine signs around the village, but according to resident Steve Dorling, signs are being taken down once they are displayed.
STAFF at Rachel’s Organic dairy in Aberystwyth are devastated this week, after being told by bosses that up to 45 jobs could be axed.
The workforce of 120-plus, one of the largest private sector employers in the town, were called to meetings on Friday to be told the news by bosses at French dairy giants Lactalis, the company which bought Rachel’s in August 2010.
One employee, who has asked not to be named, told the Cambrian News: “Staff were told to attend meetings at Plas Antaron, Penparcau, last Friday. There was one meeting at 11am for staff ‘affected’ by the redundancies, and a later meeting to inform those not affected.
FEARS were growing this week that a body found washed up on a north Wales beach on Monday is that of missing man Simon Jones. The body was found on a beach between Tywyn and Aberdyfi at around 10.30am by a passer-by.
It was recovered with the help of the Coastguard and the RNLI. The body was described as “badly decomposed” by police but it is believed that the clothes were similar to those worn by Simon, 24, of Llandysul, on the night he disappeared in Aberystwyth last month.
TRIBUTES have flooded in this week for a popular Cardigan man described as “the bravest of the brave” after he was killed while serving in Afghanistan on Sunday.
Lance Corporal Lee Thomas Davies, 27, was serving as part of an advisory team providing security for a meeting with local officials in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand province.
Lcpl Davies of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and another servicemen, Corporal Brent McCarthy of the Royal Air Force were shot and killed by members of the Afghan Police Force, the Ministry of Defence said.
