TV star Michelle Collins will open one of North Wales' biggest new stores next Wednesday. The former EastEnders actress is to officially open Makro in Queensferry to the public at 9.30am. Crowds are expected to see the star of the new ITV drama Single launch the store at Fford Pentre, off Chester Road East, Queensferry. Famed for her role as Cindy in Eastenders and 2,000 Acres of Sky, she is teaming up with celebrity chef Simon Rimmer who will be doing live cooking demonstrations throughout the morning. Simon's TV credentials include This Morning and Living TV. The new store has created more than 200 jobs and Makro has heavily invested in the 10,000 sq metre development. An exclusive preview for local dignitaries and prominent business people, and champagne reception, is planned for the evening before. The store offers a wide range of products for registered card-holding customers, and businesses will have the opportunity to register for a Makro Tradecard at the store. Simon Hellam, Store General Manager, said: "We are expecting to receive a good response from local businesses, especially as we've already had thousands of businesses pre-register to use the store." A TEACHERS' union is calling for surveillance cameras outside toilets at North Wales schools to tackle bullies and vandalism. It may also ask for trials with metal detectors. At least seven of Wrexham's nine high schools have CCTV, but most of the cameras are on the perimeters, designed to catch burglars or potential arsonists. Paul Davies, Wrexham Branch secretary of NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers), wants Wrexham Council to introduce more CCTV cameras inside schools, particularly covering school toilets. "Bullying can take place anywhere in the schools, but one of the hotspots is the toilets," said Mr Davies. Th e un i o n, which has hundreds of members in Wrexham, has made its suggestion in a newsletter to local councillors and the education authority. But the union is also working on a much larger consultation with all its Wrexham members to find out their views of "pupil behaviour management." The report, which will be ready before Christmas, was prompted by Wrexham council's own survey on stress which found that 30pc of teachers in Wrexham dread going to work because of their workload and pupil indiscipline. Mr Davies said: "The stabbing incident recently and the death of a pupil in a school means we need to look at school security systems. We don't want to make schools into fortresses, they need to be welcoming p laces for the whole community to enjoy. Wrexham Council installed CCTV on its new yellow school buses, to combat bul-lying and rowdy behaviour, and there have been great improvements. "Some schools have external CCTV and this is good, and cuts down arson and vandalism out of school hours. What we are looking for is an increased use in cameras installed at entry and exit points, also in corridors to combat truancy and outside toilets because these are areas traditionally where bullying goes on and we need to record who goes in at what times." The NASUWT report on pupil behaviour management will have to go before the union's Wales executive for approval. Mr Davies said the consultation asked members what they thought of contracts on guarante e d good behavi ou r ; risk assessment of pup i ls with records of violence and making false allegations; role of school counsellors; CCTV and metal detector trials; and increasing on-site pupil referral units. Wrexham Council has a planned programme for installing CCTV in schools as they are refurbished. But Terry Garner, Director of Education and Leisure Services, said they could not rely solely on cameras to reduce bullying. "Dealing with bullying involves far more than just observation. It is the ethos of our schools to work with pupils through various schemes to make education a positive experience for all," he said. | 
