Mold Salutes is holding an open evening later this month to attract new members and appeal for memorabilia for a four-day event it wants to stage in August.

Peter Williams, 75, now lives in Newark, New Jersey, and is author of Whistling in the Soup (Boyhood in Wales during WWII), a collection of his childhood memories.

The piece of finger bone is kept in a shrine at St Winefride's Well, which pilgrims from across the world visit to pray and take to the water in the belief it can cure their ills.

History and shipping enthusiasts want a s sponsor to pave the way for the RH Carr, one of the last steam ships to be built in Flintshire, to return to the county from Guyana, South America.

The Deputy Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Hazel Williams will lead the ceremony at Gladstone's monument in St John's Gardens, Liverpool at noon on Tuesday.

The Clocktower, formally known as the Robert Davies Memorial Hall, is expected to be put on the market early next year.

The 13th century castle was sold to a local farmer on Tuesday for £122,000, alongside 24 acres of surrounding land.

Year 6 children dressed in 1940s attire and military uniforms on Friday and took part in workshops and activities organised by teacher Jayne Williams.

Throughout the day pupils used scales to weigh out their weekly rations and created their own wartime ID cards. The aim of the day was to answer the question 'what was it like for a child during the Second World War?'.

Mrs Williams, the school's history co-ordinator, said: "We normally do a trip to a museum or something, but this time we thought we'd do something a bit more fun.

"It was brilliant. There were so many things for the children to do and get involved with, they got completely absorbed!"

Historical monuments organisation CADW temporarily closed Flint Castle in August amid reports of anti-social behaviour and vandalism.

Since then there have been complaints by the town council about the poor promotion of the castle.

Archdeacon Bill Pritchard will be talking about St Winefride, Her Holywell and the Jesuit Mission at Holywell Library on Wednesday, December 2, at 2pm.

Mike Roberts of Gwernymynydd, has taken his passion for history and turned it into a lucrative career move, writes Francesca Elliott.

His new business, Age of the Princes, sees him perform re-enactments of Medieval Welsh history across North Wales, focusing on Owain Glyndwr, Prince Llywelyn Ap Gruffydd and their contemporaries.

Mike gives presentations to schools and historical and archeological societies, as well as various other groups.

The lot includes land surrounding the castle in Ewloe and Gwernaffield, and is expected to raise a total of around £500,000.

The auction will take place in Beaufort Park Hotel, New Brighton, Mold, on December 8, beginning at 7pm.

At a meeting on Monday, Flint Town Council received a letter from Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones turning down a request from Sandy Mewies to meet council members and discuss Flint Castle's promotion and security.

Enclosed with the letter was a message from visitor services manager of WAG's historic environment service, Cadw, advising the minister to turn down the council's invitation while discussions with officials continued.

An Edwardian Family Album, an exhibition of photographs taken by a Merseyside family in the early 1900s, is on display at the Lady Lever Gallery in Port Sunlight, Wirral, but David Price of Mynydd Isa, died from cancer before it opened.

Back in the 1960s a big planting programme near Mold included the Nercwys mountain - and a 300-year-old shepherd's cottage which was demolished to make way for the trees.