Showing posts from May, 2015
Many people in the local area have vilified the head of Ruthin School for his Free Press letter about 'unnecessary' Welsh medium education. Instead, perhaps we should actually be indebted to Toby Belfield for it. For him, it may have been an …
Today, we're pleased to launch a blog supplement project called Rhuthun/Ruthin's Magna Opera at the address ruthin.wordpress.com We trust that Magna Opera will build to become a definitive collection of longer, illustrated essays coveri…
Here are some town changes noted in passing at the end of May 2015: Corwen Carpets is moving from its Lôn Parcwr premises to within the town itself, in the former Santander/Newyddion Rhuthun News unit. This must surely be an admission of defeat wh…
They've redesigned the Rhuthun/Ruthin town trail, they have. That would be the county council. We're not sure when they did this. I only discovered the new look trail leaflet today. The Discover Denbighshire website still features the old st…
The new 30 mph limit in Pentre Llanrhaeadr went live either yesterday evening or early today. As predicted .
In the week that Schola Ruthinensis headmaster Toby Belfield caused a storm over his views over his perceived deficiencies in the Welsh education system—and the role of education through the Welsh medium in particualr—so it was that the parents at Ys…
Toby Belfield’s comments on the Welsh language have hit the Daily Mail. The total number of Mail reader comments has hit over 700. Most are from England, so you would not be surprised to learn the way the comments tend to lean. There's scant unde…
There was a time, not long ago, when Ruthin School's second language was Latin. Nowadays, as befits an international school, it's Mandarin. No hint of Welsh, though... at all... A letter from the headmaster Toby Belfield of Schola Ruthinensi…
Without being at all political and considering only the facts, it would seem after yesterday’s general election that the physical entity known as the Vale of Clwyd has reverted to type and is once again returning Conservative MPs. In the Vale of Clw…
Now the polling booths are closed, we can let you have our take on the March 28th hustings The thing about the general election hustings of March 28th held this time at Ysgol Brynhyfryd was that you learnt as much about the local electorate as you d…
The 2011 AONB with, inset, its original area from 1985 The Bryniau Clwyd/Clwydian Range area of outstanding natural beauty celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. It would have been so nice had the commemoration peaked with the AONB's p…
Announced in today's Daily Post is the result of the new logo competition . We were asked to choose between three . In our opinion, the best design won and it now looks better than it did with a white silhouette of what appears to be St Peter’s.…
