FOLLOWING the news that plans for a multi-billion pound nuclear plant on Anglesey has been suspended one island resident says her life has been "left in limbo."

Since Japanese manufacturing giant Hitachi announced this morning (Thursday) that it was pulling the plug on Wylfa Newydd, beekeeper Katie Hayward has more reason than most to be anxious.

Katie is the human face behind the ambitious project and one of the last people left living in immediate proximity to the Wylfa site at Cemlyn, near Cemaes Bay.

Dozens of families and homes had been cleared from the area in preparation for the development.

Since, the nuclear plans were first mooted, the future of Katie’s Felin Honeybees business and National Trust rented ancestral home was hanging in the balance.

Back in November, the Chronicle had reported how Katie, known as the ‘Queen Bee, of Anglesey,’ had fought to protect her business and farm, after Horizon Nuclear Power, Hitachi’s

UK subsidiary had told her and husband Chris they must leave.

"My entire life and future has been decided by anonymous people in boardrooms.

"They don’t know me as a person,” said the 42-year-old.

“I just can’t believe this latest development, we still can’t plan the business, and our lives are on hold once again.”

“We thought we would have to leave. I’d taken all my pictures down, and already started to pack.

"I’m so tired of the stress of it all. This whole situation has made me ill. It has been like being on a rollercoaster."

"To be fair to Horizon they said they’d take care of us, but now we don’t know what is going to happen.”

“I have got ulcers, feel sick all the time. I can’t eat, can’t sleep. It’s badly affected my family, too.”

Katie, has been running her 18 acre bee farm and education centre since 2012. 

She first became interested in bees when aged 17 and now has 1652 hives, scattered across Anglesey, North Wales and France, where she also has an apiary.

Katie specialises in Welsh black bees, but also keeps, chickens, cattle and horses.

“I love my bees, they are the most amazing creatures, but you can’t just up and move them on a whim,” she said.

“It all has to be planned, and now the spring is coming, there are things I need to do with them, but I can’t start anything because I don't know what is going to happen now.

“In all the time we have been fighting this situation, I have lost staff, I had 15 employees now I’m now down to nine. People have bills to pay they can’t live with uncertainty.

“The work I do helping people using bee therapy and even people dropping in to buy honey, it’s all ground to a halt.

"I was up all last night (Wednesday) watching the Japanese news channels, waiting for Hitachi to make their announcement ahead of the UK media because of the time difference.

"But the announcement that they are pulling out has just created more uncertainty for us.

"It’s a Catch 22. Even if a new company takes over the site, we’ll be back to square one again, we could end up fighting a new company. 

"Even if we can stay, our community here is gone now."

A spokesperson for Horizon said they had continued to engage with Katie Hayward but that the discussions were "private and confidential."