Showing posts from May, 2007
We were the first to report that Rhuthun town post office was in the ludicrous situation of losing its post box. Now, we can be the first to report that the situation’s remedied. Following planning consent, a new box is now installed on St Peter’s …
It's oft said that on Saturday people tend to do their leisure-type shopping elsewhere than Rhuthun . It's true that on some Saturdays, compared to the preceding Friday, the town can be quieter. Tomorrow,Saturday, though, do take half-an-ho…
The outbreak of avian flu via chickens on a North Wales small holding, with two workers ill, is dangerously close to Rhuthun. It’s on Hiraethog, between Pentre-Llyn-Cymmer and Llanfihangel-Glyn-Myfyr. Llanfihangel’s only some 12 miles away, as the hen…
From May’s Assembly elections, the village of Rhewl just 1.7 miles and three minutes north of Rhuthun, finds itself in a different constituency. This has caused some consternation in the village. After all, it’s probably obvious that Rhewl is very muc…
Most young teenagers get bored. It’s an occupational hazard. This doesn’t mean that bored teenagers channel their energies into antisocial behaviour. Sadly, though, there is an increasing tendency within Rhuthun for young people to do just that. Ove…
The Iorrie Foulkes memorial seat arrived in Rhuthun St Peter’s Square on Sunday. Town councillor and character, Iorrie Foulkes was both well known and well liked. He died suddenly in October 2006, aged 72. His faithful dog often followed him around to…
Tribal? The post on 4 May attracted a comment from a Gareth Thomas, Rhuthun resident and former member of parliament for Clwyd West (including Rhuthun). Said Thomas, “Rhuthin is one of the least politically tribal places I've lived in”. How very…
Just like the spring hedgerows on the lanes around Rhuthun, the last three weeks have seen Rhuthun in bloom – with new shops to confound the pessimists who feel that Rhuthun’s post-Tesco 21st century prosperity is short lived. In defiance of what pe…
G I & M Jones – Newyddion Rhuthun/Ruthin News Closed on 5 May 2007, this long-standing Well Street newsagent is the latest in a line of paper shops and tobacconists/confectioners to finish. The shop will be remembered for the number of times sta…
Information packs on wheelie bins have arrived in Rhuthun/Ruthin homes. Wheelies themselves are delivered from today. 3,000 residents in Rhuthun and Dinbych will get them in the next fortnight. The switch date away from plastic sacks is 21 May. Whethe…
Cyngor Tref Rhuthun is suggesting a 20-mph speed limit for motor vehicles travelling through the town. We’d say that at busy periods, speed is self-limiting, when it becomes impossible to “speed” through the town. This is because of the nature of th…
It’s not often that you hear Rhuthun mentioned nationally at the top of political news. Now that the election is behind us, I feel I can mention something that many outside politics, the many less politically active, found amusing – and something that…
Rhuthun’s mayor, Morfudd Jones, is asking residents to “shop locally”. This follows the recent planning inspector’s decision to overturn the county council’s planning committee’s refusal to let Tesco expand. She is clearly unhappy with the inspec…
