"Ferodo" site back in the news

It is site that has significant interest to the local comunity, an economic role going back decades and has dominated several chapters of local trade union history - where else but the fomer Ferodo / Friction Dynamics /Dynamex Friction factory on the shores of the Menai Straits east of Caernarfon. The site is back in the news, not just because of Americal owner Craig Smith, but because it is up for sale.

It would seem a sale is intended over the next 18 months. Yet who will buy the site ? It is a large and industrial site with a history in asbestos. One would think a range of range of technical and safety issues would arise with any redevelopment. Certainly I do not feel it sensible for the Assembly Government to rush in and buy the site as has been suggested to the BBC by Hywel Williams MP (Party of Wales) - a little more thought may be necessary before leaping on this one.

Anyway Radio Cymru want to cover the story (Post Cyntaf Tuesday 8th August) so lets see what a bit of radio coverage can give to air the situation.