Showing posts from January, 2007
Can you believe that at 9 a.m. today Tesco in Rhuthun was exactly six months old? I don’t think we can blame this month’s heavy rain, floods, storms and fallen trees on Tesco but what is the state of Rhuthun/Ruthin at this anniversary? On the one …
It just goes to show you shouldn’t believe all you read in the press! Today’s Free Press announces that Tesco’s developer will be mounting an appeal against the county council’s October refusal of permission to expand its Rhuthun store. This comes …
Today’s newspapers and radio are full of the proposed competition investigation into supermarket monopoly. So, as supermarkets (especially Tesco’s) are increasingly accused of abusing their growing monopolistic positions, we ask what’s the case in t…
If it’d been the council, the police, national assembly or some other public body, the press would’ve vilified the organisation’s left hand for not knowing what its right was up to. There’d be an editorial on the subject. It was, instead, Britain’s …
With the distinct prospect that from April car parking in Rhuthun will half to 20p for the first hour, there should be even more incentive for town traders to adopt Rhuthun / Ruthin’s win-win suggestion to refund shoppers their first hour, subject to …
Preface: Microsoft Word spellchecker recognises Caernarfon and Dolgellau, plus both Conwy and Conway, but suggests Ruthann for Rhuthun. Streetmap and Google Local recognise Rhuthun but Multimap doesn’t. Why is it that Rhuthun is so often referred to…
With the tree on St Peter's Square coming down today and signalling the end of Christmas, now seems a good time to look back at 2006, one of the most eventful years in Rhuthun’s recent history. Here’s why. January – Kwiksave reopens after a pre…
