Alan Davies

Courts should be given greater powers to sentence people who attack members of the emergency services, according to a police boss. This follows the publication of figures which show a dramatic trebling in the number of assaults on police in North Wales over the past five years.

A headmaster has been cleared of two charges of fraud while employed at two primary schools in the Wrexham area. Nicholas Robert Hankin, 54, said he felt as if there had been a witch-hunt against him for the last two years and that it had “destroyed” his life.