Welcome to the new Coast and Country online magazine blog.

Watch out for all the latest sports news - and particularly athletics - plus special business spotlight features, book publishing/book reviews, charity events, arts & entertainments, and online promotions to over 60,000 followers each week:

**Check out the new Blog : coastandcountry.blog

Editor Don Hale OBE.

Don is an award winning author and former investigative journalist and editor, who has worked for the BBC, plus many national and regional newspapers.

He has won the Journalist of the Year title on three separate occasions, and he has over 50 years experience of being involved with numerous high profile and very successful investigations.

In 2002 he was awarded an OBE for campaigning journalism and received his honour from Prince Charles (*now His Majesty King Charles) at Buckingham Palace.

Don is also a keen sports fan, and despite being a veteran, he still takes part in many parkruns and races in North Wales, and writes a regular page of sport for the NW Pioneer and the NW Weekly news, amongst many others, and he has promoted his other very successful blog for over 6 years:

www.donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2026

*A peaceful scene above at Deganwy in North Wales looking across the estuary towards the spectacular Conwy Castle

We welcome any sporting news, or details of any forthcoming community events, whether for charity fundraising, or for general local interest around North Wales.

Part of our aim is also to help encourage any would be authors to publish their works online via our association with Amazon. We produce paperbacks, hardback, ebooks and audio books. Contact us for a chat about your project.

And in addtion, we run numerous blog and social media features, to our wide audience of supporters. If you would like to be included, please get in touch: coastandcountryonline@btinternet.com

This Blog hopes to make you aware of some of the great efforts being made on a daily basis by some incredible people within the local community, who very rarely, if at all, get a deserved mention in the media. We now intend to change that!

Thank you for your interest and support..

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