Rhuthun / Ruthin

Trade at Rhuthun Tesco Ruthin was brisk today. It invariably is, each Saturday. Yet, trade at the monthly Ruthin Produce Market was slack. It’s sad to report that it invariably is. Well, “mixed” might be a better term. Today’s Food Festival at Yr Wy…

This weekend sees a major Food Festival in neighbouring Yr Wyddgrud/Mold. It demonstrates that in spite of an enlarged Tesco in that town, plus Somerfield and Aldi, there’s life outside the corporatisation of our grocery agri-industry. Gŵyl Fwyd Yr …

What’s happened to the jobs Tesco promised at Rhuthun/Ruthin? Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but the pledge at the outset of the planning process was for 300 jobs. To be fair to Tesco, they stated “up to 300”, which means any number from one to 29…

Something that Rhuthun/Ruthin’s got that Tesco will never have – and that’s the architectural interest and history associated with a medieval town, once the county town of old Denbighshire, a shire county whose borders once extended extensively in a r…

If you’re thinking of touring some of Rhuthun/Ruthin’s architectural gems over the weekend, being the town’s open heritage days, think again. Anything that’s worth seeing’s been booked for months. The 10 tours of newly-restored Nantclwyd House were th…

Walking in the late summer sun around a very prosperous-looking Rhuthun/Ruthin yesterday, it seemed to me that there was nowhere on earth better than our beloved little town. Reasonably busy for a post-Tesco Saturday, I noticed it was the first day of…

In spite of officers’ recommendations to approve the planning permission for Tesco Rhuthun/Ruthin’s enlargement, members of today’s planning committee decided to defer their decision, upon awaiting more information about the impact Tesco will have on …

Just over a month since it opened, the story of Rhuthun/Ruthin’s Tesco ain’t over yet! Denbighshire council’s planning committee deliberates on Wednesday whether or not the store should be increased from its current 2,745 m 2 to 4,126m 2 . This is …