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Funding of £175,000 from Welsh Government has been confirmed to progress the work needed to repair the extensive damage caused to the B5605 earlier this year during Storm Christoph.

As reported previously we have continued to work on the ground and with Welsh Government to provide the technical and assessment reports and establish costs to ensure this road is brought back into use as soon as possible.

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The funding will cover our preliminary, assessment and design costs.  The ground investigations have just completed and we await the options report.

Cllr David A Bithell Lead Member Environment and Transport said, “I am pleased we have secured funding from Welsh Government of £175k for the next stage of this process to develop a business case for all the options available to repair the road.

“We are currently carrying out geotechnical work and hopefully this will be complete by the end of December. We then need to consider options and design for work and will be submitting them to Welsh Government as soon as possible.

“We are aware of the extensive inconvenience and impacts this is having on local communities and businesses and hope to be in a position early in the new year to progress with options for repair work. We hope this will be fully funded following storm Christoph.”

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Thinking of writing a letter to Father Christmas this year? Why not send it from Wrexham Library.

Once again Wrexham Library will be collecting your Christmas letters and sending them off to everyone’s favourite jolly bearded gentleman.

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Simply collect your writing paper from the library, post your letters to Santa in their festive post box and receive a reply from the man himself!

Replies will be available within a week, and available to collect from their festive display.

Open to all children, young and old.

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Residents who put their green bin out for collection but haven’t paid for the garden waste collection service won’t get their bin emptied and will instead have a sticker placed on it to remind them how they can sign up for the collections.

Have you had one of these stickers appear on your green bin recently? 👇

If you haven’t paid for the 2021/22 service, just head over to wrexham.gov.uk/gardenwaste and follow the simple instructions to pay.

The service charge has been frozen at £25 per bin and runs from the date you sign up until September 2, 2022, so it’s better to sign up sooner rather than later to get the best value. Simply put, the earlier you join, the more collections you’ll get.

“We don’t want these people to miss out on any collections”

Darren Williams, Chief Officer Environment and Technical, said: “We’ve introduced the stickers as a way to inform residents who haven’t paid, but are still putting their green bin out for collection, how to renew the service. Some probably haven’t realised that the new collection year started at the end of August and we don’t want these people to miss out on any collections. We want to try and give them the information how to pay and the stickers are a direct way for us to do this. Anyone yet to pay that wants the collections can visit wrexham.gov.uk/gardenwaste or call Streetscene to pay, and they will still get many months of collections for £25 if they sign up soon.”

Get over 9 months collections if you sign up soon

Autumn is always a popular time for gardening with leaves falling from trees and having dead plants from the summer to clear. If you didn’t get round to renewing in August, but now wish you had, please be aware it’s not too late to join!

If you sign up now, you can still get around 9 months of collections, whereas if you left it for a further month before signing up, you’d only get 8 months collections for the same price.

Please pay online if you can

Paying online is by far the easiest and most convenient way to sign up to the service, as you can do it any time you want and it only takes a couple of minutes.

If you’re unable to do this, you can call Streetscene to make a card payment, but please be aware that you’re likely to experience a wait if you do so.

Allow 10 days for your sticker

Residents who sign up for the service will be issued with a new sticker for 2021/22 collections, which will need to be displayed clearly on your bin lid. Please allow at least 10 working days to receive your new sticker pack from the date you sign up.

Monthly collections Dec 2021-Feb 2022

Garden waste collections will run once a month from December 2021 to February 2022 for those who have paid for the service, with normal fortnightly collections resuming in March.

Reminder – green bin collections switch to monthly for winter period

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As we approach Black Friday and Cyber Monday our Trading Standards officers are advising anyone buying online to be aware of the pitfalls that may turn out to be a disappointment or even worse unsafe.

Last year online retail sales in the UK hit a record £130.6 billion! It’s expected to remain high this year but not all line sellers are genuine and many are out to take your money for substandard or fake goods.

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There’s also many companies that increase prices before Black Friday and Cyber Monday in order to claim they’ve reduced them by a significant amount. You can check price trackers by using the Camel Camel Camel website or similar site to make sure you’re really getting a bargain.

There’s lots of other things that you can look out for especially scams where unscrupulous companies will use.

Here’s a few simple things to help keep you safe:

• Don’t be taken in by promotion or discount offers shared on social media – these can look inviting, but often link to “copycat” websites so fraudsters can steal your details.
• Look for reviews of the product or retailer/seller – and ask yourself whether or not they look genuine.
• Are there lots of spelling or grammar mistakes on the website? If so, that could be a hint that the business is not professionally run.
• Make sure the website has an encrypted address – this’ll show up if there’s a padlock symbol in the taskbar (where you type in the address), or if there’s an “s” at the end of the “http” part of the address. If so, this means that the website is using an encrypted system, which keeps your details secure.
• Does the company have a landline number you can call if you have any problems?
• Read the small print – notice if anything seems odd, repetitive or in incorrect English.
• Don’t be tricked by an impossible bargain – if something looks too good to be true, it probably is.
• Keep in mind that fraudsters exploit high demand – if shops run out of things like toys and games, crooks will step in and sell poor quality or imitation versions.
• Don’t panic buy – just make a few common-sense checks like those above and make sure you’re not handing your details over to a criminal.

Roger Mapleson, Trading Standards and Licensing Lead, “The first question to ask yourself is, “Do I really need this item?” Recently published research by Which? shows that over half of shoppers regretted their Black Friday purchases last year. If you really do need that new TV or coffee maker be careful and follow the simple checks above to make sure your money is well spent and you are not disappointed.”

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