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Friends unite to bring a travel agency back to their high street and continue town’s revival

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Harry Kemble
19 June 2025

A children’s entertainer turned taxi driver has teamed up with his wife and another couple to turn a former menswear shop into a travel agency and try his hand at being a travel agent.

Dee Travel, Shotton, June 2025

L-R: Allen and Debbie Owen, and Stefanie and Jeff Ford-Foyne, outside Dee Travel (Credit: Dee Travel)

Jeff Ford-Foyne has been a children’s entertainer for nearly three decades, but it was while working as a taxi driver he started thinking about opening a travel agency in the Flintshire town of Shotton. 

He is one of four directors of Dee Travel, the others being his wife Stefanie and their friends Debbie and Allen Owen – who is currently refurbishing the shop with a view to opening in August.