Wrexham

But this whole time I've been thinking, can I qualify for England?

A Wrexham top, that's what you should wear.

For an American accent.

Yeah, wear a Wrexham FC top.

They'll love that in South Wales.

They will fucking love that.

Four places are now in the running for the £10 million prize.

They are Blackpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield, all in England, and Wrexham in Wales.

And these four locations were recommended by the UK City of Culture Expert Advisory Panel, chaired by Sir Phil Redmond, who joins me now on the line.

Thank you so much for coming on the show.

yeah very much so thank you yeah there's a we've got a table of uh there's a dozen of us so yeah we've come down from Bangor on day uh all come down this afternoon and many of them are staying for racing tomorrow

excellent good to hear reffing North Wales down here um as North Wales is only track obviously near Wrexham a huge part of the local community there what does being part of the Welsh racing community mean to mean to Bangor

It means so much, to be honest, and we really look forward to this evening every year.

You know, it's when groups come together.

But yes, we, we are doing a number of road shows across Wales at the minute.

So we were fortunate enough to be in Wrexham a couple of weeks ago.

We're gonna be in Llanrhyd-no-Fels on the 21st of October, also gonna be in South Wales on the 19th of November.

So those events are really designed to set out what we're currently doing with the existing framework, and we've recently launched our new version six templates as well, so they all comply now with the changes that we've had with Dua.

So in the spending review in 2025, although it's never enough, as I mentioned before, there was a significant amount of money won in the spending review in 2025 to help us do all the work up in Network North Wales.

There's a lot of track changes needed to get the frequencies up between Wrexham, Bidston and Liverpool and so on.

So money was made available there.

And the next spending review is in 2027.

That's dope.

That's the o- is that Wrexham that you got on? O-

It's Wrexham

... okay.

Yeah, shout out Wrexham.

Shout out the Welsh.

But I was like, "Oh, they're the Red Dragons," so.

It's good for the Dragons 'cause apparently North Wales is really close, and, uh, lots of North Wales will come and support us now.

Yeah, you're Wrexham now.

That sounds fantastic.

Like, you're gonna get a great crowdfunding down.

Yes.

My name's Rodri and I am a PJ pro based at Clay's Golf Club in Wrexham.

And you can find me on Instagram.

You can find me on the Clay's website or you can just find me at the golf club, you know, dotting around doing my little bits.