Lowri in Ultra race
AT 5am on Saturday, August 6, the Llyn Peninsula will have Ultra Runners from all over the UK take part in the first ever Round Pen Llyn Ultra Marathon.
Not for the faint hearted, the race covers 75 miles of the Coastal path, starting and finishing in the iconic Plas Heli Welsh National Sailing Academy and Events Centre, with just 24 hours to complete it!
Local Race directors Huw Williams and Dan Brook Taylor where encouraged by the fact that 2016 is the Year of Adventure Wales and so the idea was launched.
Huw said: “As well as bringing runners from all over the UK to Llyn, many of which have said they will be back for a holiday, it has also generated a good deal of interest with the locals and local business. We have over 45 competitors as well as Welsh celebrity Lowri Morgan and her production crew who have agreed to take part.”
“Local businesses have been very kind in sponsoring, the prizes, shirts, food, trackers, start/finish checkpoints and food stations and each runner has a tracker that you can follow on your iphone or one of the many pubs that will be showing it.” TINY kittens who were found tied in a plastic bag and dumped in a bin last month have finally been rehomed.
The black and white kittens, now called Lexy and Mercedes, were just eight weeks old when they were discovered on Sunday, 26 June at 9.30am near the Harbour Masters Office in Porthmadog.
Council workers heard their cries when they went to take the rubbish out.
They were taken in by their rescuers until RSPCA officers were able to take them to the Bryn-y-Maen Animal Centre in Upper Colwyn Bay, but it is not yet known how long they had been in the bin.
Now, just over four weeks after they were heartlessly abandoned, their new owner, Debbie Parry from Llandudno, has said they have “settled right in” to their new home.
Debbie said: “They are adorable. I had been going back to the centre a couple of times to see them and then I picked them up last Sunday.
“Considering their background I could not get over it. They were playing and investigating. They are so cute and loving.”
After Lexy and Mercedes were discovered, an appeal was launched by the animal charity in the hope that those responsible for dumping the kittens could be found.
RSPCA inspector Mark Roberts said: “It is just so sad that they were just callously dumped.
“They must have been so frightened. But in our care the kittens did really well and it’s lovely to hear they have a new home.”