Showing posts from March, 2008
Nominally at least, today’s the last day to reserve selected new homes at Glasdir , if you wish to take advantage of the freebies on offer from George Wimpey/Taylor Woodrow/Bryant Homes. These include a part exchange scheme, light fittings and carpets…
In view of the earlier item on the cancelled Rhuthun/Ruthin Medieval Festival and comments posted thereto, an organiser has asked that this blog clarifies why the venue has moved to Castell Bodelwyddan Castle. Rhuthun / Ruthin Blog is glad to assist a…
Will you have a couple of hours to volunteer to join the town council’s usual clean up and litter pick this morning, starting at 10 a.m. at Crispin Yard? It’s rather sad that the Free Press’ announcement on this has to qualify exactly where Crispin …
The pub trade in Dinbych has most definitely come down against proposals to convert a former church building to a J D Wetherspoon pub. They fear loss of trade and complain this will affect local suppliers. Rhuthun's due for a Wetherspoon's ,…
Another 1p increase per litre in fuel last week and the Chancellor’s deferred-for-six-months 2p per litre tax rise brought pump prices back into the news. And Rhuthun’s petrol continues to be some of the most expensive in Britain. Since last week,…
Easter Day and it hardly seems like yesterday that we tore down the Christmas decorations. And we have Christmas weather too… It just goes to show that sometimes you can’t win. Last Christmas, Ruthin Vision put together a series of events to lure pe…
With it’s brash orange & dark blue psychedelic signage, its battered former Marks & Spencer cast-off store shopping baskets, and sell-it-cheap mentality, arguably B & M Bargains is *so* un-Rhuthun. That’s certainly the case when you consi…
18 months of hard graft have paid off for the proprietors of Rhuthun’s new Picture House Restaurant, Well Street, which opened on Thursday. Without being gaudy, the interior’s been restored and redecorated to a very high standard, echoing the former…
There’s no official confirmation of course. But rumours now circulating around the town indicate that Liverpool or Manchester authorities have bought parts of Glasdir en blocke, to offer to their residents for rent as social housing. The rumour doe…
The identity crisis surrounding the new housing development off Denbigh Road/Borthyn appears to have solved itself. So, it’s fair play to developer Wimpey who in the space of one week has remained the site Glasdir, plain and simple. Horrah! All of a …
As if the problems surrounding the new housing market aren’t bad enough. We’re talking a post-credit crunch 20 per cent reduction in new house reservations and the bottom dropping out of the buy-to-let flat market. Both are expected to affect Rhuthun…
Two Tesco employees next to their biscuits were holding a somewhat concerned conversation about the price of food at the newly opened B&M Bargains. It made an interesting spectacle. The media are full of stories about the might of Tesco. Yet, here…
Business was predictably brisk during yesterday’s less-than-grand opening of Rhuthun’s new B & M Bargains store . There was a good mix of browsers and buyers. There were times when queues of seven or eight people supported up to two checkouts. The…
Ignore those who say B&M Bargains Stores is set to open on Saturday—or Monday at the latest. It’s likely to open later today. B&M Discount Stores leases the old KwikSave site from Somerfield. Staff within will seem familiar—they have all t…
Controversy continues to court the new Glasdir housing development . First it was called Rhuthun Parc , then the far more acceptable and linguistically correct Parc Rhuthun. It seems developer George Wimpey (who’s taken Bryant Homes over) has bowed…
UPDATES: Pleass see the comments box “A magical setting with fantastic historical connections, the town of Ruthin really is the ‘Jewel in the Vale’ of Clwyd”. So says a press release from the organisers of Ruthin’s Medieval Festival, a series of e…
We can’t fully agree with the two comments on Monday 25 February’s post on Tilly Mint Village Collectables. Take a look and see if *you* agree or not. It’s good to have an opinion. Both commenters felt Tilly Mint was an example of what I paraphrase…
It was really a bit of an open secret for those in the know. Now, it’s gone very public. Slater’s of Rhuthun, the Citroën (and sort-of Vauxhall) car dealer is about to shut. In a disappointing quote in the Vale Advertiser, the regional car giant'…
