Showing posts from June, 2007
Upon appeal this month, the upland Wern Ddu wind farm between Rhuthun & Gwyddelwern received the go-ahead. The possibility of future wind farms at the Clocaenog Wind Farm Zones near Rhuthun in Strategic Area A remains. The debate for or against …
So, the Bryant Homes/Taylor Woodrow Glasdir housing development, some of whose footings and foundations are already in place, is named “Alexandra Court”. No matter how pretty the name, people of Rhuthun may wonder why the developer has chosen such an…
Move your cursor over a picture to view details Precisely six months to Christmas and Rhuthun’s weather yesterday felt more like December than mid-summer. Reports are of a half month’s rainfall in 24 hours. Temperatures in the town lashed by heavy ra…
This week’s Denbighshire Free Press complains of the rising price of motor fuel. It’s priced at 97.9ppl unleaded or diesel at Bridge Services this morning, 2ppl higher for unleaded than at Yr Wyddgrug. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again but …
Three cheers for whomsoever in the county council has restored Nantclwyd-y-Dre (Nantclwyd House), which yesterday opened to the public for the first time. The only downside? No guidebooks (yet). It's been over 20 years of financial struggle that…
The relative health of Rhuthun’s town centre is again demonstrated by recent changes in the lock-up shop stock. Clwyd Street, though, could be in trouble. Porth-y-Dwr/Watergate tea rooms (Clwyd Street) has sold, subject to contract. Similarly, at Fr…
Interesting letter in the Free Press this week. Upon asking Tesco for a voucher for its summer fair, Ysgol Brynhyfryd received £20, £480 short of that give last year. The letter writer asks why the 96 per cent reduction and concludes that Tesco has do…
Flash floods in parts of Lloegr/England this week have caused misery for many. The Bryant Homes/Taylor Woodrow new Glasdir housing development started last week. This is on an ancient flood plain. A pile driver has been placing large and substan…
The recent semi-public display by the police without consent of pictures of a dead motorbiker killed in 2003 at Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr near Rhuthun has caused some outrage with the deceased’s family and the biking community. It resulted in a 200 stro…
It may sell newspapers but the headline in the current Free Press, which reads “Denbigh? Ruthin? St Asaph? New prison is planned”, suggests Dyffryn Clwyd will be the site for a dumping ground for North Wales’ worst. The actual article is somewhat mo…
Whether you can say that the Three Castles tea stop received sufficient publicity of not, that’s not a criticism that can ever be levelled at pwyllgor Gwyl Rhuthun/Ruthin Festival committee. Snippets are beginning to appear in the local newspapers,…
I don’t really know my Mini from my Morris but even I wondered at the impressive metal on display at the St Peter’s Square pit stop on the Three Castles car rally, on Thursday last. It’s a shame that so few people came to support the event, to see s…
Aelodau cynulliad/assembly members are a little upset they didn’t know about the Llanfihangel bird flu from the start. OK, so they have a country to run. But what about the rest of us? Llanfihangel’s within spitting distance of Rhuthun. Why should AC…
It was disappointing to see a heart felt letter of complaint in the Free Press about our local secondary school, Ysgol Brynhyfryd, relating to the teaching of Welsh in Rhuthun. It linked to what appears to be an apparent Free Press or ex-teachers’ ven…
