Showing posts from October, 2009
We continue our look at the LDP . See 2021/1 and 2021/2 . If you’re interested (and you should be), go along to the Llanfwrog community centre today, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. where there’s information available. Then, complete the comment form. I…
The LDP consultation process is upon us . What does the LDP offer for Rhuthun and its surrounding villages, in terms of housing? No settlement will be left untouched, not even hamlets. Starting with the whole of Denbighshire, the LDP suggests we nee…
2021 seems such a long way off, especially as few people plan beyond a five-year horizon. In 2021, where will you be and what will you be doing? For 2021 is the time frame for Denbighshire’s Local Development Plan. The Rhuthun leg of the LDP consult…
The great digital switchover begins today, from 6.00 a.m. This affects Moel y Parc and its relay group. Concerns from 62 households in Gwyddelwern that their service would suffer appear unfounded. This is all good news for local consumer electronics…
Should Rhuthun again have a tourist information centre? The obvious and clear answer is “yes”. The fact we have one no longer probably reflects the cost involved and the number of visitors we get. The costs outweigh the benefits and, as such, this is …
Here’s an interesting comment left anonymously on the blog on 23 October 2009, and I quote: “Just to note in reference to the many searches relating to Rhuthun and Tesco [arrivals here initially via a search engine linking the two together terms to…
This is not quite Rhuthun’s first “pop-up” store, but one of the first. I’m referring to the shop now occupying most of the former Majestic Travel , known as Ruthin Trader, that opened a week ago. Another empty shop taken. Though the big question is, …
Feelings are running high in the town over car parking charges . Ah, it was ever thus. Well, almost. Parking, of course, was once upon a time free of charge, into the mid-1990s. Shoppers now have an opportunity to add their name to those who wish to…
I stared in amusement at the cover of one of my presents, a book by Daily Mail columnist Quentin Letts entitled “50 People who B*ggered up Britain”. Who might feature inside, I wondered. Red Robbo? Sir Terrence Leahy? The BBC’s Mark Thompson? Sir Fred…
The Venue re-opens officially this evening following its refurbishment. Under new management (Turner Bros), Rhuthun/Ruthin’s only discotheque will henceforth be known as the V2 Nightclub. Under Nazi Germany, the V-2 was the world’s first ballistic …
Still over 70 days till Christmas and this week, they’ve put Rhuthun’s Christmas lights up. Such a move so early in the season is unprecedented, certainly in recent times (when everything has appeared to be slightly rushed). That’s one whole month ear…
Welcome to Rhuthun’s latest café. Sort of. Opened over the weekend is the Bridge Services Café, Rhuthun’s only café without tables and chairs. Though the sign in the corner to the right of the tills as you face them clearly says “café”, it’s more a …
Time was, before out society crumbled, when the church was a significant moderating force. Today, it’s less so and no doubt we are the poorer for it. So it is that few beyond the church door will realise the importance of the proposed local Church in …
“I haven’t seen that much pink on the map since the end of the British empire”. So said one person who attended the recent exhibition on the proposed Clwyd Power Station wind farm to be built in Coedwig Clocaenog Forest. For those too young to rememb…
It’s long been known that Rhuthun once held both a priory and a convent. One indication is the name Prior Street. Another is that St Peter’s Church was once served by a prior. The suggestion is that both were housed near, adjacent to or even within th…
... I don’t like Mondays. Did you take advantage of the bright sunny day, yesterday, perhaps with a stroll around Rhuthun's shops? The temperature in town peaked at 18°, not bad for an October day. In January, we posted on the shop situation o…
Should people in Rhuthun be worked up about a handful of wind farms some 12 to 15 miles away? Especially as it’s probably a foregone conclusion? Well, on a sunny day, each time you travel west towards Rhuthun over the Bwlch Penbarras or Clwyd Gate, …
The other bit of news when mentioning the Square that needs adding to yesterday's post was that on Thursday a white van stood outside and emptied MDUK Hair Design . It had completed the job by early evening. MDUK didn’t quite make the year. While…
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You’d expect charity shops to be booming during our recession. So it is that over the summer, a fourth Rhuthun charity shop opened in the shape of the brightly lit windows of Capricorn Animal Rescue, Clwyd Street, an organisation based at Yr Wyddgrug/…
