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Flintshire

American  
[flint-sheer, -sher] / ˈflɪnt ʃɪər, -ʃər /

noun

  1. a county in northeastern Wales. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).


Flintshire British  
/ -ʃə, ˈflɪntˌʃɪə /

noun

  1. a county of NE Wales, on the Irish Sea and the Dee estuary: became part of Clwyd in 1974, reinstated with reduced borders in 1996: includes the industrialized Deeside region in the E and the Clwydian Hills in the SW. Administrative centre: Mold. Pop: 149 400 (2003 est). Area: 437 sq km (169 sq miles)

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In the Netflix documentary Take That, Barlow revealed he had performed his very first gig at the club in Flintshire in the early '80s.

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She has also travelled from her home in Mold, Flintshire, to visit the social club with friends, saying it was refreshing that Barlow is still "fondly thought of" in Connah's Quay.

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Smith, a Flintshire police sergeant, said the family had just popped into the store to print out some documents, ahead of taking Rupert for an appointment at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, when they noticed Rupert had become vacant and unresponsive.

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Antonia Merola Jones, a single parent-of-one from Mold, Flintshire, said the ban should also be in force across the border.

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Osian Taubman-Edwards, from Mold, Flintshire, started developing video games on Roblox when he was 14, after becoming "majorly obsessed" with the creative process.

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