WISE OLD OWL

MID-WALES
LOCAL INFORMATION PORTAL

Your one-stop location for local, up to date and relevant information, tailor-made for your individual town.

Choose your town from the list below, or if using a mobile device scroll down for the (QR) Quick Response codes.

Click a button to try out the many special interest sections

SCHOOL BUS LIVE TRACKER

For those who live in Powys, a new Live Tracker is available which will when selected show the approximate location of an active School Bus.

"By entering the manual code from the student’s bus pass, you can view a route map and timetable of the designated home-to-school transport route which, if viewed during the planned journey times, will show the approximate location of the bus whilst it is travelling,

WARM HUBS

With the current high gas and electricity prices many families, especially the elderly are going to struggle to keep warm this winter.


Warm Hub's are being set up to provide a place where people can meet and stay warm using buidings which have to be heated anyway.

#ItsOkToNotBeOk

Woo supports mental health, not just on Mental Health Week, but all year round.

Cathy Beech

Cathy is a local singer, songwriter and vocal coach, who apart from just performs, also  runs many singing classes in the area for groups of all ages.

Visit her Woo page by clicking below.

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN DURING ALL THE LOCKDOWN'S?

I've been driving around California, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Colarado and Washington in the United States, exploring Las Vegas, Los Angeles and the Grand Canyon.

I have toured France, visited Venice and Rome in Italy, Explored Switzerland, Germany and Poland, and driven through and around Budapest.

I have driven Tourist Buses, Coaches, big heavy wheeler's, and iconic American trucks, towing up to three trailers at a time behind me.

It hasn't cost me a penny in fuel or in accomodation, and ALL was done without breaking lockdown rules!


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WOO HOME PAGE

EMERGENCY PAGE

TOOLS PAGE

WOO FACEBOOK PAGE

WOO SPECIAL SECTIONS

CORONAVIRUS HELP PAGE

WELSHPOOL INFORMATION PAGE

NEWTOWN INFORMATION PAGE

LLANFAIR CAEREINION INFORMATION PAGE

MONTGOMERY INFORMATION PAGE

LLANFYLLIN
INFORMATION PAGE

LLANIDLOES INFORMATION PAGE

LLANDRINDOD INFORMATION PAGE

MACHYNLLETH INFORMATION PAGE

USEFULL TOOLS

Calculators; Converters;
Calendars; Live Travel; Map; Timetables; Weather;
Job Searching; Parcel Tracking;
Recycling & Money Saving ideas;
TV & Radio links; How to fix it videos.

EMERGENCY INFORMATION

Hospitals; Doctors; Dentists; Vets; Crime; Flood information;   Disaster & Emergencies; Missing People; Police Information Requests; First-Aid advice; Medical information & videos, Family Safety; Home Support.

LOCAL SERVICES

Contact numbers and websites for your local Schools; Colleges; Council Departments; News; Local Businesses and services.

SPECIAL SECTIONS

WOO is all about keeping you & your family safe.
Medical advice, First-aid,
household advice, Fitness for those who cannot attend a gym, Tips for  motorists, 
WOO-KIDS helps keep the little ones amused and helps them learn.

VISITOR INFORMATION

Electric charging points; Places to eat and stay, Things to see and do; Camping information; Online TV & Radio, Maps.

Watch the WOO Videos

Describing WOO in a few words is not easy, the best way to find out how useful WOO can be is to explore it and see.

The Woo pages are always being updated and where possible improved, and new sections of interest added.

WOO's Ethos & Values.

WOO wishes to be as environmentally friendly as possible, by reducing the use and need of paper leaflets and directories. And by promoting recycling ideas and practices.

WOO wishes to give back to the commuinity, by providing the helpful information they may need all in one place, by creating awareness of local events, and involving the local community with its specialist sections of interest.

WOO wishes to be non-political, unbiased and non-disciminatory.

WOO wants to promote local businesses, groups, individuals and events. Promoting not only the town itself but Wales as a whole, showing off our beautiful scenery, many interesting places, extroadinary talent, heritage, history and it's culture.

It also wishes to support where possible the many worthy charities and non-profit making groups, that give so much to our local communities and who make us proud to live in Wales. By providing free advertising space to help promote awareness.

GDPR COMPLIANCE

General Data Protection Regulation.

WOO ensures that only the minimum information is recorded and stored safely, this will include the necessary Customer Data for those paying for advertising which includes :-

Business name, business address, contact name, business phone number, business email address, dates of advertisement periods and dates of payments.

No tracking of visitors or insertion of cookies is used by WOO

MAKE A TINY 2KB DESKTOP ICON

To keep Woo always to hand and save having to search for your town, create a tiny (2kb) shortcut on your desktop. First go to the menu page for your nearest town, highlight and copy the full address shown in the address bar at the top of the page, then using the right mouse button click on a blank area of your desktop and choose 'New' and then 'shortcut'. Use the right button to click in the box, and Paste in the copied address, press OK. Another box will open for you to name your shortcut eg 'Woo', then press OK again. Tuck this new icon away in the corner of your screen and you will have instant access to your own local information at a click of the icon. Alternatively, goto the menu page of your town and click to add it to your list of Favourite's / Bookmarks.

THE FUTURE OF WOO

WOO is constantly developing, changing to meet needs, trends and situations.

I originally started WOO as a personal project and with just one town in mind, Welshpool the town where I live. The original site over its years of development had many rewrites and style changes. Many new ideas were added and tried out and gradually it took its current form.

I was soon approached by other viewers asking if their town could also be included, soon Newtown was added and then later followed by others. The interest grew and I had to decide on where I would take it to in the future.

The social distancing of the coronavirus epidemic halted the events pages, and during this period I noticed a distinct change in the way the site and its contents was viewed. Local users were still accessing the information relevant to them, but I was now getting a much wider audience, not just from Wales and the UK, but from the United States and other countries. These viewers were interested in the many topics covered in the 'Special sections', and I realised that WOO was now much more than just a local service.

I wanted to remain loyal to my local viewers, so I swapped things around a bit, making the 'Mid-Wales Information portal' as a section within the 'Special Sections' of the main site, still maintaining quick and easy access to information by those who live local to me.

The main WOO website now concentrates on providing useful information to a much wider world-wide audience, with a varied range of interest topics within the Special Sections menu.

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