Showing posts from March, 2010
Within days of new gift shop Escape opening on Well Street, the building was covered in scaffolding, as just one of several frontages with a recent similar affliction. Indeed, Escape opened one year, one month and one day after the closure of its pr…
You know Spring’s on its way when the produce market kicks in again. It’s good to see it back for the first of the 2010 season, yesterday, coinciding with proper Spring-like weather and with a busier than usual town centre, no doubt as a result of the…
The number of shopping days till Christmas? Actually, believe it or not (and you know you can believe it), there’s been snow hanging on the Clwydians above Rhuthun/Ruthin from 19 December 2009 till Tuesday 23 March 2010. That’s 95 days consecutively, …
Update at 11.30 p.m. Scroll down to the post on Our Co-operative to see reader views on this, for which thanks (none censored, none deleted, none barred, none altered). I may have deleted a comment in the past. I recall being asked to do so because so…
Never a popular subject—or a popular payment—we each received a council tax bill last week or early this. I look forward to the accompanying booklet from the county council called “Money Matters”. Usually within are all sorts of nuggets. This year’s n…
What appears to have been he most controversial post to date ( see comments here ) and was deleted in a fit of Blogger/Blogspot madness, will be reinstated in something resembling its original form, shortly.
12 months ago this week, Rhuthun/Ruthin Co-op embarked upon its internal refurbishment. There was much shifting and dismantling of stands and disruption within. There were empty shelves and freezers. The result five weeks later was a significant ch…
It appears that a further Rhuthun/Ruthin shop is closing. But in this case, appearances are deceptive. The "closing down" posters that appeared on Friday in Seconds Ahead, Market Street, refer not to the shop but to one of its two warehouses…
It seems the Rhuthun Four get a reprieve. The Eastertide enforced pub closure following the under aged drinking sting operation has been deferred by seven days, to prevent the impression that the town is closed over the holiday weekend. There have …
As today’s Free Press makes do with old news about Easter pub closures , yesterday’s Visitor scooped with a front page on Dinbych/Denbigh Tesco, also in yesterday’s Daily Post. The on-off saga of Tesco in Dinbych may at last be reaching a climax. Do…
During our recent Rhuthun/Ruthin Blog survey , we asked five general questions about Rhuthun. Here’s what you told us. 1. Over the last 50 years, Rhuthun/Ruthin has expanded quite a lot. The Local Development Plan will see yet more housing. Is it t…
It can’t have escaped your notice that as of Thursday the whole country’s been subjected to Google Street View, the 360-degree zoomable roadside images of anything that happens to be in the way. Rhuthun is no exception and its coverage is quite extens…
In what amounts to very good news for their competitors, it's going to be a dry Easter at four Rhuthun/Ruthin pubs. That's the penalty licensees will need to pay to avert a significant fine following a "sting" where the four were cau…
John Prescott and Peter Hain were both in town yesterday. They called on the Square, on their way to Rhyl. Rhyl, you’ll remember, was where Prestatyn lad Prezza caught an egg and threw a punch, in an altercation involving a Llandyrnog farm labourer. …
Today’s Denbighshire Free Press leads with a story on the Children’s Society charity shop in Rhuthun/Ruthin . Because the society no longer works in Wales, its profits from its only Welsh outlet are exported to England or overseas. The Free Press wond…
During the last 10 days, this blog’s become somewhat heavy in its content and comments. Now, it's time for a lighter approach, quite literally. Also last week, there appeared in Rhuthun/Ruthin a new kind of globe atop a Belisha beacon, on Borthyn.…
Free speech again. When I started this blog I didn’t even realise that the Comments feature existed. Even after they first appeared, it took a while to notice. Now, for many, they’re an integral part of the blog, for good or ill. We need all views. …
The comments on the recent posts on sixth form education seem to have morphed into a discussion about our town council . One commenter asks what exactly our town councillors *do*. It’s easier to say what they don’t do. The town council doesn’t fund …
If the thought of spending £245,000 on a bungalow that you’re gonna knock down anyway seems a bit unproductive, vain, excessive or futile, you could always try Glasdir. You would certainly get better value for money on this controversial housing esta…
Rarely have posts caused so much comment or controversy. Not since this one , perhaps. I think Gina’s not the only one who needs a gin. I certainly do! Mind if I jump in one final time on this? I know I don’t normally. Monday’s commenters on furthe…
Thursday’s post on the Ysgol Brynhyfryd sixth form has stirred a few people into commenting. And views were somewhat polarised. I felt it was time to go behind the invective and try to come to a balanced view. To do so, I’ve had to ask around a bit…
