Gwynedd rode out the recession relatively well until the end of last year but has since been hit by a number of plant closures, as companies retrench nearer their markets.
'The most important is to upgrade skills,' according to Ms Enid Rowlands, chief executive of Targed, the training and enterprise council in Gwynedd.
Countryside Council for Wales, Plas Penrhos, Ffordd Penrhos, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2LQ.
The three seats won by Plaid Cymru in 1987 were all in Gwynedd, the one part of Wales where Welsh is the everyday language.
Homes were flooded and roads closed in Gwynedd and Powys. Weather, Page 14 A rally in bonds helped send US stocks higher in moderate post-holiday trade.
To discover which wines restaurants have been selling and what restaurateurs think we will be drinking in 1995, I trawled five of the UK's finest wine lists: Penhelig Arms, Aberdovey, Gwynedd, Wales.