Showing posts from September, 2007
If you strolled around the produce market on Saturday, you’ll’ve noticed two Rhuthun ‘firsts’ in celebration of the Rhuthun heritage weekend. Well, almost firsts. Part 1 – the Ruthin Honey Bun On sale for the first time in some 15 years in Rhuthun…
As Sid James might say. A bit of a 'Carry On', if you'll excuse the pun, as a Llandyrnog woman in yesterday’s Free Press complained that she had to travel to Rhuthun rather than slightly nearer Dinbych/Denbigh to buy her underwear. Said th…
Tomorrow sees the premises currently occupied by Oddbins up for auction. This won’t affect tenants Oddbins, though. What will affect Oddbins is the move by its management to sell off its retail premises lease in Rhuthun, up for sale since February. …
Last year’s “heritage weekend” was dubbed a success. It was a joy to see the town brimming with people, even in the face of stiff competition during Tesco’s second month. And they’re doing it again next week, on 29 and 30 September. Let’s hope the n…
This blog bombed during the recent Welsh Blog Awards. Not a single vote. Mind you, it would’ve helped had we actually been nominated! But even the self-nomination of a local blog wouldn’t’ve had much chance in the face of the big ones. Anyway, the Bes…
The council itself commissioned the first report . The second comes from the Estyn school inspectors. Both came this week and both tell a similar story, not an upbeat story. One view is that such reports on Sir Ddinbych/Denbighshire’s education will…
Farmers' frustrations boiled over this week with a 60-strong protest outside Rhuthin's Tesco. Fresh from the mart where farmers saw tumbling per kilo prices, there were calls for supermarkets to promote Welsh meat. Foot & mouth export rest…
No matter how you read yesterday’s Denbighshire council’s education report concerning declining GCSE results, the poorer performance of boys, and so on, we in Rhuthun should not lose sight of the fact that we are blessed with one of the country’s bes…
You expect the literature associated with new housing developments to market the local area. Thus it is that Taylor Woodrow/Bryant Homes produces glossy information on Parc Rhuthun, Glasdir. Given the sub-standard road network as far as the dual car…
A quango called the Commission for Integrated Transport last week published a report recommending "a steady increase in fuel price is essential to help control CO 2 emissions". They may be right. But I thought we already had steadily incr…
Literally. When they’re available next spring, you could buy a brand new Taylor Woodrow/Bryant Homes property for between c.£160,00 and £300,000 at Glasdir’s Parc Rhuthun site. Or you could buy a slice of history. Here is a brief selection of thre…
Key Properties has finally given up the ghost, after some nine months in town. It’s now one of a string of gaps in Clwyd Street. Key Properties has hardly been open over the summer, if at all. Yet, in spite of its formal closure this week, it still …
In the event, we must await the name of the likely anchor supermarket at the heart of the £22mil Dinbych/Denbigh station yard development. It was *not* revealed today by developer Cathco, as expected. Instead, the district needs to hold its collective…
Last month, we looked at the Tesco effect on Rhuthun supermarkets. During the first week of August, there appeared signs that in the wake of Tesco, Somerfield is putting up a fight. Within Somerfield's Rhuthun store is a huge array of internal …
So then, what has been happening in Rhuthun/Ruthin over the past month or so? The premises which Changing Networks occupied (mobile phones, Upper Clwyd Street) is to let. For sale Oddbins is up for auction on 26 September, as an on-going business. …
I was surprised at my return from holidays late last week to find that there’s soon to be an announcement about the former KwikSave redevelopment in Dinbych/Denbigh. It’s quite possible that the future of Rhuthun now depends not only on Tesco but al…
