Woman police officer done for speeding

• Posted by Rob Irvine at 4:38 PM | add or read comments (0)

83mph in a 40! Through the roadworks! Tut, tut. The boss wouldn't be happy.
It's especially bad news if your boss happens to be the man dubbed by the Daily Mail as the leader of the Traffic Taliban, one Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom.
As things stand, policewoman Jacqueline Edwards' appearance in court today (she got a 50-day ban) is going on tomorrow's front page.
After a quiet-ish week there are some strong stories around today. We've some fantastic news about 300 jobs being created in Bangor.
Read about the rather bizarre request that the boys in blue have made to lock down Rhyl's pubs after the town's footballing finest entertain Irish side Bohemians this Saturday.
Page three is devoted to touching tributes to a brave little girl from Anglesey who has lost her fight with stomach cancer. Thanks to her family for sharing their story with us.

Best picture story of the week? Hats off to our sister paper the North Wales Weekly News for the amazing image of the blazing bus in Conwy yesterday. We've now popped it on our website but they certainly scooped us today!

Things are moving on apace over our plans to create a Welsh language news website. More news follows soon.

Brickbats for Conwy's traffic wardens. Booking people's cars in the nine-tenths empty car park in Deganwy the other night. Shame on you. And what has Conwy council got against Deganwy? The business rates have killed off half the shops, the Chinese restaurant is made to sweat over their expansion plans and the car park fees have gone through the roof.

No fear of Conwy council workers having to pay for parking at Bodlondeb - it's still free on weekdays!

The A(aagh)55

• Posted by Rob Irvine at 7:41 AM | add or read comments (2)

Have you ever felt like gnawing the steering wheel with rage? The A55. The A bloody 55.
It's just a long, thin car park.
After agonisingly long trips on consecutive days to Liverpool and back, I hate it more than easy strip of tar deserves to be hated.
Yesterday's front page piled on the misery - the delays are likely all summer.
I want to find the bloke who said 30-odd years ago, "I reckon we can manage without a hard shoulder on the 55. If there's roadworks we'll just have single lanes. It will be fine."
I want to find him and I want to take him for a little drive.

At least I came back from the Capital of Clutter with something useful - a great insight into the absolute latest developments on the web from Trinity Mirror's finest internet minds who joined us for a strategy day. Some of the stuff coming out of the states is "awesome" as those people who leave comments on YouTube say.

And I love the innuendo-riddled language of the web. This blog has already introduced to the delights of "content squirting". Now I bring you "soft scraping" which is apparently okay, whereas "hard scraping" is definitely a Very Bad Thing.