Interview: James Dennison of Dennison

Apartment For Rent North Wales: As anyone who has ever met him will testify, James Dennison wears his heart on his sleeve. If he's happy, you know it and if he's angry then it is quickly and abundantly clear.

When we caught up with him at the end of May he had plenty of reasons to be cheerful: a new 2,300m2 factory has recently opened next door to the Lancashire plant and appears to be running well. Manchester United, his favoured football team, was about to contest the FA Cup final against Chelsea (and he had a ticket) while... .

Wales Water charged over health scare bug

Apartment For Rent North Wales: Welsh Water has been charged by the Drinking Water Inspectorate with five counts of supplying water unfit for human consumption after a bug hit customers.

The bug cryptosporidium affected more than 230 who drank water from a Snowdonia reservoir in November 2005. About 70,000 homes in parts of Gwynedd and Anglesey whose water was supplied from the Llyn Cwellyn reservoir at Rhyd-ddu, were told to boil their drinking water for two months after the outbreak.

231 people fell ill with the bug which causes vomiting and diarrhoea. Diane McCrea, Chair of the Consumer Council for Water Wales, said: "We are very disappointed that this outbreak happened in the first place. Customers expect their water quality to be of a high standard consistently, and I'm sure those affected by this bug will want reassurance that this will not happen again.

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