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Killing time playing pool at the West Rhyl youth club, friends Sienna, 19, and Jake, 26, are unanimous when asked what a tour of the north Wales seaside town should look like. “The first place I’d show anyone is ‘Crackhead Circle’,” Sienna says. The small public garden behind the town hall and a paved area by the closed home bargain store Wilko in the adjacent high street host several strung-out characters on a cold February afternoon. Police cars crawl through the area every 15 minutes or so as part of Project Renew, a year-long crackdown on gang activity and drugs. On the seafront, a row of Victorian hotels look out over the milky-green Irish Sea, but their glamour has long faded; the dilapidated buildings now serve as emergency accommodation for the council. Sienna waves at a group of people gathered on the steps of the Westminster hotel as she walks past. Her family moved around a lot before coming to Rhyl a few years ago. They lived at the hotel when they arrived. View image in fullscreen Sienna and Jake in one of Rhyl’s amusement arcades. ‘My mates who have jobs are all working part-time,’ she says She is a gifted athlete, but a basketball injury that required major surgery on her leg interfered with her education, pursuing sports and entering the world of work. Q&A What is the Against the tide series? Show Over the next year, the Against the Tide project from the Guardian’s Seascape team will be reporting on the lives of young people in coastal communities across England and Wales. Young people in many of England's coastal towns are disproportionately likely to face poverty, poor housing, lower educational attainment and employment opportunities than their peers in equivalent inland areas. In the most deprived coastal towns they can be left to struggle with crumbling and stripped-back public services and transport that limit their life choices. For the next 12 months, accompanied by the documentary photographer Polly Braden, we will travel up and down the country to port towns, seaside resorts and former fishing villages to ask 16- to 25-year-olds to tell us about their lives and how they feel about the places they live. By putting their voices at the front and centre of our reporting, we want to examine what kind of changes they need to build the futures they want for themselves. Was this helpful? Thank you for your feedback. “It has been difficult to settle down here,” she says. “I don’t think it’s that dangerous, but you have to be careful by the bus station.” Rhyl West has topped deprivation tables in Wales for decades. Drugs and violence are significant problems in the once elegant holiday town; the ward has a crime rate of 197 for every 1,000 people – about 2.5 times the average for Wales. The violent crime rate is 88 for every 1,000, or more than double Wales’ average. View image in fullscreen Donna and Chris, both youth workers, talking to young people in the town centre about what opportunities exist in the resort The town’s young people, like so many others in coastal communities in England and Wales, leave school and often find themselves faced with few opportunities for work and little chance of finding somewhere affordable to live. “My mates who have jobs are all working part-time in shops or deliveries or tourism,” says Sienna. “Almost no one can afford to move out from their parents and get their own place. They can’t afford to leave either.” double quotation mark Our issue in Rhyl is getting people into work. Many young people lack the basics Melanie Evans, Working Denbighshire Sienna has a fiance in Northern Ireland but she does not have the money to see him very often. “We haven’t figured out how we can be together yet.” But there are tentative signs that the tide may finally be turning for Rhyl. Project Renew is working – in January, North Wales police said crime was down 14% on a year ago – and everyone the Guardian met agreed there is less drug use on the street. Years of construction work on the promenade finally finished last summer, the nearby Queen’s Market food hall, waterpark and cinema have all been recently revamped, and a neighbourhood board has been put together to decide how to spend millions allocated through the government’s Pride in Place funding. View image in fullscreen The Westminster hotel, where Sienna and her family lived for more than a year after moving to Rhyl. Several of the town’s old hotels now serve as temporary council accommodation Pride in Place, Labour’s answer to the Conservatives’ levelling up strategy, has awarded hundreds of places, many of them coastal, with £20m. The proviso is that local people, the MP, the council, businesses and community organisations must all work together on how best to spend it. Gill German, MP for Clwyd North, is keen that young people in Rhyl are involved in that process. “The youth service consulted 600 young people about what they need,” she says. “They [the young people] still don’t think the beach belongs to them – they think it’s for tourists – so we need to try to make sure they start feeling the benefits of living by the sea and those wellbeing factors [associated with that].” double quotation mark If you keep doing the same thing, you’ll keep getting the same results. We needed to do something different Melanie Evans, Working Denbighshire Researchers from University College London recently travelled up and down the English coast talking to local people for their Coastal Youth Life Chances project and concluded that one of the things that would make a difference to young people in seaside communities would be to include them in planning and decision-making. “We’ve managed to get more young people on Our Rhyl [the Pride in Place board],” says German. “Hopefully that will start connecting them to the growing opportunities [in Rhyl].” Rhyl is unusual in that it is youthful in comparison to most UK coastal towns. It is also an outlier in that the unemployment rate in Denbighshire is 4.8%, lower than the UK average of 5.2%, even though coastal areas tend to have more people out of work. “Our issue in Rhyl is getting people into work,” says Melanie Evans, of Working Denbighshire. “Many young people lack the basics, such as knowing how to talk to people in a workplace or an office, or how to dress. Those are skills we are teaching.” In 2017, Working Denbighshire consolidated more than a dozen funding streams from the Welsh government and Westminster into one pool, making it simpler to coordinate services and channel money to where it is needed most. View image in fullscreen Old photographs of Rhyl in its heyday, when it was a thriving resort for visitors from Merseyside The results are clear. In 2021, Project Barod was launched – Barod means “ready” in Welsh – offering one-to-one mentoring support in helping find work or training, workshops to help build confidence and skills, such as cooking classes and beach clean-ups, as well as classes in reading, writing and maths. When participants are ready, they can access subsidised work experience, and the project also supports people struggling to hold down a job, and those who want to retrain. double quotation mark It’s tough working with short-term funding … That lack of certainty makes it harder because young people can’t rely on us Jay McGuinness “Our thinking was: if you’re going to keep doing the same thing, you’re going to keep getting the same results,” says Evans. “We needed to do something different to break the cycle of poverty.” The number of people in education or training after support from Working Denbighshire in the first half of the 2025-26 financial year was 163, up 233% on the department’s target of 70, with 38% of those helped aged 16 to 24, by far the biggest demographic group. By his own admission, Luke, 19, did not enjoy school, and had no idea what he wanted to do when he left. After quitting a job he hated at a clothes shop, he was referred to Barod by the jobcentre. Over the past year the programme has helped him study for a roofing qualification and find work as an apprentice. View image in fullscreen Florence and another trainee flanking Steve Baxendale. The baker was teaching them how to make pizzas in a scheme run by Project Barod View image in fullscreen ‘Learning something new gives me a sense of accomplishment,’ says 25-year-old Florence “I’m still very shy. Talking to people and paperwork and exams and stuff can be overwhelming,” he says. “I never imagined I would be doing this though. Eventually, I want to run my own business and work for myself.” At a Barod pizza-making class at Use Your Loaf, a community bakery, the small group are being shown different ways to stretch and toss dough by the baker, Steve Baxendale. Florence, 25, cracks a shy smile as she throws the thin circle in the air, specks of flour spotting her glasses and apron. Health issues have prevented her from applying to university yet, although a degree in cognitive science is still the goal. “I’ve been going to workshops like these for a couple of years now,” she says. “They help with confidence. View image in fullscreen Sienna and Jake are regulars at Rhyl’s boxing club. She says it’s a highlight of her week and is now thinking of training to becoming a youth or social worker “Making something or learning something new gives me a sense of accomplishment, and it’s sometimes easier to tackle the things I need to do when I feel I’ve already done something right.” For all of Rhyl’s recent successes, some teenagers and young people are still falling through the cracks. Jay McGuinness, a social worker who trains Sienna and Jake at the Rhyl Youth Boxing Club, says one part of the job is walking around the town centre in the early evening and getting to know the young people hanging out there. The aim is to build enough trust that they might then engage with the youth centre. “We’re a non-profit, we’re not run by the council, and it’s real

توقعات برياح نشطة على 5 مناطق استمرار فرص تكوّن السحب الرعدية الممطرة توقّع المركز الوطني للأرصاد تأثر تبوك والجوف والحدود الشمالية اليوم (الجمعة) برياح نشطة مثيرة للأتربة والغبار، قد تؤدي إلى شبه انعدام في مدى الرؤية الأفقية، مع امتداد تأثيراتها إلى أجزاء من حائل والمدينة المنورة خاصة الشمالية منها. وأشار المركز إلى استمرار فرص تكوّن السحب الرعدية الممطرة على أجزاء من مرتفعات جازان وعسير والباحة ومكة المكرمة. ولفت إلى أن حركة الرياح السطحية على البحر الأحمر ستكون شمالية غربية إلى شمالية بسرعة 15-40 كم/ساعة على الجزء الشمالي والأوسط تصل إلى 45 كم/ساعة باتجاه خليج العقبة وشمالية غربية إلى غربية على الجزء الجنوبي بسرعة 10-30 كم/ساعة.

نبَّه المركز الوطني للأرصاد، اليوم (الإثنين)، من رياح شديدة، على العاصمة المقدسة، تشمل تأثيراتها المصاحبة شبه انعدام في مدى الرؤية الأفقية، ورياحاً تصل سرعتها إلى (50-59) كم/ساعة وبيّن المركز أن الحالة تستمر حتى الساعة الـ 6:00 مساءً.‏ وكان المركز أصدر تقريره اليومي عن حالة الطقس في مختلف المناطق متوقعاً تأثر أجزاء من مناطق الحدود الشمالية، الجوف، تبوك برياح شديدة السرعة تؤدي إلى عواصف رملية وانعدام في مدى الرؤية الأفقية، ويستمر تأثير الرياح النشطة المثيرة للأتربة والغبار على أجزاء من مناطق حائل، القصيم، الشرقية، نجران، قد تصل إلى شبه انعدام في مدى الرؤية الأفقية على أجزاء من منطقة مكة المكرمة، وتكوّن السحب الرعدية الممطرة على أجزاء من مرتفعات مناطق جازان، عسير، الباحة، مكة المكرمة، في حين يكون الطقس حاراً إلى شديد الحرارة على أجزاء من مناطق غرب المملكة تشمل السواحل منها. وأشار التقرير إلى أن حركة الرياح السطحية على البحر الأحمر جنوبية شرقية إلى جنوبية غربية على الجزء الشمالي وشمالية غربية إلى شمالية شرقية على الجزء الأوسط والجنوبي بسرعة 17 - 36 كم/ساعة وارتفاع الموج من نصف المتر إلى متر ونصف وحالة البحر خفيف إلى متوسط الموج.

أعلنت الدوريات البرية لحرس الحدود في قطاع الربوعة ب منطقة عسير القبض على ثلاثة مخالفين لنظام أمن الحدود من الجنسية الإثيوبية، بعد ضبطهم أثناء محاولة تهريب 60 كيلوجرامًا من مادة الحشيش المخدر، مؤكدة استكمال الإجراءات النظامية الأولية بحقهم وإحالتهم، مع المضبوطات، إلى جهة الاختصاص. القبض على 3 مخالفين من الجنسية الإثيوبية لتهريبهم 36 كيلوجرامًا من الحشيش في عسير وجددت الجهات الأمنية دعوتها للمواطنين والمقيمين إلى الإبلاغ عن أي معلومات تتعلق بأنشطة تهريب أو ترويج المخدرات، مؤكدة أهمية التعاون المجتمعي في مكافحة هذه الجرائم. وأشارت إلى إمكانية الإبلاغ عبر الرقم (911) في مناطق مكة المكرمة والمدينة المنورة والرياض والمنطقة الشرقية، والرقمين (999) و(994) في بقية مناطق المملكة، إضافة إلى رقم بلاغات المديرية العامة لمكافحة المخدرات (995)، أو عبر البريد الإلكتروني (Email:[email protected]). وشددت الجهات الأمنية على أن جميع البلاغات ستُعالج بسرية تامة، دون أدنى مسؤولية على المبلّغ، داعية الجميع إلى المبادرة بالإبلاغ عن أي نشاطات مرتبطة بتهريب أو ترويج المخدرات.