Showing posts from September, 2015
Right now, 39-year-old Huw Hilditch-Roberts could well be the most popular man in Rhuthun/Ruthin. For he has saved our post office. In January hence, he's to become our sub-postmaster. Not that the post office was actually under threat. Its cu…
It's rare indeed that Rhuthun/Ruthin's annual Open Doors events meet with a drear day. This year, both morns were chill but the days soon came on warm, with late summer sunshine, the likes of which we have never quite witnessed so late in the …
£154,950 buys you one of two brand new three-bed properties on Glasdir , with one bedroom coming with en-suite. Well, both were actually for sale in 2012, never occupied and a remnant of an unfinished estate, thanks to flooding. What else might y…
The one thing even more likely than the flood to put people off buying at Glasdir is the appearance of the housing on its spine road, Stryd y Wennol. I doubt Taylor Wimpey would have planned it but this has a higher proportion of housing association p…
Unless this is a joke or a grand camgymeriad, today, something extra-ordinary happened. Someone (not Taylor Wimpey) marketed the first brand new houses on Glasdir since the November 27th 2012 flood. That's after two years, nine months and 26 days…
Sunday September 13th was a pivotal day for Rhuthun/Ruthin's remaining town centre newsagent, Castle Bell, Clwyd Street. It was the last day that it opened on a Sunday. From today, you had to buy your Sunday newspapers elsewhere. Castle Bell will …
Aldi is moving towards its target of 1,000 UK stores. Said Julie Palmer, a partner at Begbies Traynor, "With almost half of British grocery shoppers now visiting Aldi or Lidl every month, the public still clearly loves the discounters". Yet,…
I can see the headlines of next week's Denbighshire Free Press already. "Outrage as pupils defy sweaty sweatshirt school rule" "Please Sir, if we spill this orange liquid down our sweatshirts, Sir, can we take them off, Sir?&q…
… and one that affects us all. The present owners of no. 16 Castle Street bought in October 2010 and moved in six months later. They had already demolished the right hand side carport, affected roof repairs to the rear, added a rear roof light, p…
Yesterday, Llanelidan & district was the first of this year's areas to allow people to wander round heritage sites under the Open Doors banner. Llanelidan & district sounds so metropolitan, so urban, so *important*. Yet, of course, this …
