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Flintshire borders Wrexham, Denbighshire, and the English counties of Merseyside (across the River Dee) and Cheshire.
[edit] Schools
Top performing secondary schools in Flintshire, 5 GCSEs, grades A*-C, 2007
1) 70% Castell Alun High School, Hope
1) 70% Argoed High School, Mold
3) 68% St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint
4) 67% Alun School, Mold
4) 67% Hawarden High School, Hawarden
6) 60% Ysgol Maes Garmon, Mold (Welsh)
7) 51% Connah's Quay High School, Connah's Quay
8) 48% Elfed High School, Buckley
9) 42% Holywell High School, Holywell
9) 42% St. David's High School, Saltney
11) 34% Flint High School, Flint
12) 25% John Summers High School, Queensferry
[edit] Industry
Parts of Flintshire have major manufacturing industries. Amongst these are a Toyota plant that manufactures engines, a Corus Group steelworks and Shotton Paper, but most importantly Airbus, making the wings for the A330 and the A380 at Broughton.
There are daily flights of the Airbus Beluga transport aircraft of Airbus wings from Broughton for the smaller aircraft. The wings for the A380, which are too large to be transported by air use a multi-modal transport using Flintshire's roads, the River Dee and the port of Mostyn, also in Flintshire. The motto of Airbus in Flintshire is: "Without us, it's just a bus"; meaning that the parts that make Airbus aircraft fly, rather than just run along the ground, are made in Flintshire.
[edit] Fairtrade
On November 19, 2004, Flintshire was granted Fairtrade County status.
[edit] Education
Flintshire Local Education Authority manages 75 primary schools, 3 special schools and 12 high schools.
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