Economic powerhouse of the North; Geography helped Flintshire reinvent itself.(Business)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | April 23, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: Rhodri Clark

LOCATION, location, location is normally the mantra of estate agents, but it also neatly sums up the background to Flintshire's economic transformation over the last 30 years.

It doesn't seem long ago that Wales's north-eastern corner was heading into dreary retirement as another post-industrial wasteland. Its textile and coal industries had vanished quickly and other heavy industries, such as steel, were shedding jobs relentlessly. In the 10 years from 1975 nearly 20,000 jobs were lost in the area. But today Flintshire is the economic ...

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