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A farmer’s son who went to London to pursue a career in journalism has now bought a business in North Wales to give his children a future in the region.

Pryderi Gruffydd moved to the UK capital over 20 years ago to chase his dream of being a reporter but moved back to Flintshire seven years ago so his four daughters could attend a Welsh language school.

His ambition to run a company in North Wales stemmed from wanting his daughters to learn Welsh at school, and said that the family “needed to find a way to make a living in North Wales”.

So after Clwyd Agricultural in Denbighshire went up for sale in 2016 Pryderi and his wife Lizzie started the process of buying the business.

It has taken the couple a few years to find and purchase a company as they needed to find someone to help them finance their big buy, but they have now successfully taken over.

He said: “We had a burning desire to own our own business when we moved here.

“This is the type of business that I wanted, me and my wife both come from farming backgrounds.”

Both Pryderi and Lizzie have strong farming genes and their goal was to buy an agricultural company back in North Wales and to have something that their daughters could join later in life.

Mr Gruffydd said: “I want my girls to take over [the company] one day when they’re old enough.”

Lizzie grew up on a nursery where her dad and brother grow herbs, her aunt owns orchards and her grandfather owned the dairy farm Quinney’s in the 1960’s.

Pryderi’s family own a farm on the Llyn Peninsula where his brother-in-law has just started milking sheep.

Talking about the future of the business, Pryderi said: “There is a great team in place at Clwyd Agricultural that we have been very lucky to inherit.

“The service that we provide to our customers will continue to be the most important part of the business.

“We will try to optimise the potential that the business has and modernise a few areas as seamlessly as possible.

“It’s a lovely business, we’ll be keeping everything the same in the company.”