Showing posts from November, 2009
Castle Bell changes hands today. The jubilant former owners, who have been looking to sell Rhuthun’s only remaining town centre newsagent on and off and on again for a while, are eager to retire. Indeed, Pat Williams felt that she'd been made an o…
As long as I’ve been reading newspapers, I recall local rags selling Christmas space each year alongside special advertising features on local town shopping, articles that sometimes tend to exaggerate or promise more than a town can deliver. This year…
A letter in today’s Free Press names and shames all but two of Rhuthun’s landlords, by implication, for their perceived lack of interest in the longer term future of & funding for Top Dre and the Gŵyl Rhuthun Festival. Pubs do well out of Top D…
Crumbs! As of 8 a.m. today till 17 January 2010, Denbighshire county council is offering free parking in Rhuthun’s Park Road car park. Not just that, it will provide free parking elsewhere in Rhuthun after 3 p.m. This is quite an offer and we should a…
The front page of Thursday’s Free Press didn’t make good reading for Rhuthun PLC. Raked up were the problems associated with the summer’s Top Dre, the Saturday afternoon and early evening conclusion to the Gŵyl Rhuthun Festival. For a good many in Rhu…
Nearly two years after a planning inspector overturned Denbighshire county council’s refusal to let Tesco Rhuthun expand , last week saw the start of an extension at Rhuthun’s store. Well, an extension would be an exaggeration. Tesco is, in fact, in…
Appeared this week on the roundabout near Glasdir, by Dyffryn Services, is sponsorship signage for local-ish firm self-storage4u. This is a prominent and busy roundabout at the junction of Borthyn/Denbigh Rd & the northern relief road. Good revenu…
Update: congratulations to the winner & runner up, both of which loosely qualify for the £25,000: 1. Children's adventure Ship (£17,000); 2. Zip Wire (£9,000). Another pressing commitment prevented my attending last night’s Udecide meeting .…
Rhuthun residents are invited to decide upon how up to £25,000 of public money can be spent on improving the play facilities in Cae Ddol . This is the so-called “participatory budgeting” exercise, where organisations and individuals in the town will p…
Is this the shape of Rhuthun beyond 2022? The county council is consulting on the local development plan towards the year 2021. As part of that process, landowners are afforded the opportunity to suggest parcels they could release for development. …
We recently promised a post on the state of Rhuthun and I’m pleased to say that in spite of the recession matters looking positive. July 2008 November 2009 No. of vacant units 22 12 Rhuthun was at its lowest ebb at the end of July 2008. In litt…
Ah, proven wrong! Poppy sellers out in force yesterday, Saturday, including the most impressive display yet on the Square. They were also in B & M, Co-op and Tesco. Friday’s post made mention of the trend towards flag sellers in general moving …
I wonder whether there will be a Poppy Appeal seller on St Peter’s Square in the forecast rain, tomorrow, the day before Remembrance Sunday. Have you noticed anything that has subtly changed recently, regarding flag sellers? It’s a little indication…
Suddenly, local Stephanie Booth is a TV celebrity. Could she do for Rhuthun/Ruthin what she seems to be doing for Llangollen? Did you catch Monday’s BBC1 Wales fly-on-the-wall on local celebrity Stephanie Booth? I did. “Catch” implies serendipity or …
Comments left on 2nd and 3rd November ask of the Produce Market organisers, “Why not move the Produce Market to the top of town, not behind 30 ft walls?” The monthly Produce Market, of course, used to be in both locations: behind the walls of the …
It’s really great to report a weekend of activity that’s largely been so very positive for Rhuthun. And in the teeth of the recession, too: Reebee’s flourists Clwyd Street have moved to premises adjacent to its existing shop. Reebee’s now occupies …
“Yes, we have are no bananas, we have no bananas today”. A Plum Festival without any plums? That was Saturday’s Gŵyl Eirin Dref Ddinbych/Denbigh Plum Festival. If a plumless Plum Festival sounds odd (and a number of people asked that very question),…
