Showing posts from May, 2006
Fancy buying a house? Try Rhuthun/Ruthin. It seems that along with the draw of an excellent bilingual school, superb scenery and small town feel, comes the prospect of Tesco as a selling point for your property. The Little House Company is acting as…
The local secondary school, Ysgol Brynhyfryd, is offering as its main prize in this year's fundraising raffle £500 worth of Tesco vouchers. It obviously feels Tesco is a "draw" (pardon the pun) because it names only the Tesco prize on it…
Surprise! In spite of how it looked on Friday, Rhuthun/Ruthin's National Eisteddfod yr Urdd was ready, after all. And among its many sponsors? Tesco.
Well known local photographer Christopher Birchall writes in the Free Press, urging Rhuthun/Ruthin’s “butchers, bakers and candlestick makers” to diversify to survive the pending “trade war” that looms, with the imminent opening of Tesco. He feels t…
Rhuthun/Ruthin’s turned itself into a festival town. For one week, it can put aside the arguments for and against Tesco. The atmosphere or awyrgylch is palpable as you walk around. I found myself humming the National Anthem as I wondered around on Fri…
Tesco’s recent recruitment three-day open weekend garnered 506 potential applications for its 200 jobs. Not all were from Ruthin, of course, but the number applying represents some 10 per cent of the town’s population, or about five per cent of the to…
A local engineer next to Tesco is concerned he will soon be out of business. Lessor Mike Williams sold his engineering business to Mike Taylor five years ago. Now, Tesco wants the land, to enlarge the store’s footprint and it seems Williams could ell,…
“Once the competition is eliminated, even a dumbo can see that Tesco will charge whatever they wish”. So said a correspondent in yesterday’s Free Press.
May 19, 20 and 21 will see Tesco in town, in a temporary recruitment centre at Lon Parcwr, as the first point of contact in hiring up to 200 full- and part-time personnel. Under the heading “Our great new Tesco store is almost ready – all we need is y…
Speaking to the Daily Post, a spokesman for Tesco highlighted the benefits Tesco will bring to the community when it opens in August. "The store will create up to 300 new jobs and we feel that the Tesco store in Rhuthun/Ruthin will be a big boo…
Britain’s biggest supermarket chain is to get bigger – in Rhuthun/Ruthin. In fact, it is to double from its 2,745 square metres to 4,126. The plans will also include a café, external covered compound and canopy, ancillary service yard buildings and …
