Showing posts from April, 2016

In Passing—April 2016

Some enterprising person has cut a groove into the recently chopped down tree on Market Street and attached runners to the remaining stump. The Children's Society may recently have benefited from an internal refit but has anyone noticed the co…

New Schools Revealed

It's not even once in a generation that pupils get an opportunity to have a new school. This evening, between 5.30 and 7.30 p.m., the current generation got an opportunity for the first time to see plans of their new school buildings for Ysgolion …

Time to Supersede the Need for Speed?

This blog has advocated a reduction in posted speed limits in town (but not elsewhere, where they're unjustified). Speeds are often inappropriate on our residential roads (e.g. through Erw Goch) and in town there are times when motorists also dri…

What if you Run Out of Sugar?

The latest village shop casualty in August 2015 was the closure of Llandegla's store & post office. To date, hopes of a community shop on the same site or elsewhere in the village have come to nought, though there remains some optimism withi…

A Loyal Subject

Colin Edwards is again exhibited some of his collection of personal English royal photographs. For nearly two weeks, as his personal tribute to the celebration of the royal 90th, he has about 100 photographs of the queen on show in St Peter's Ch…

Whatever Happened to...

... the voices in Rhuthun/Ruthin who once spearheaded the campaign to make car parks free and then reduce the prices? That was about eight years ago. After this month's  changes to car parking arrangements, it speaks volumes that in yesterday'…

Hopped Off?

On February 8th , we asked these two related questions concerning the recent tidying up on Glasdir: Has Taylor Wimpey set things right so that, once the commercial mortgage & insurance market's working, it can continue building? Or, more p…

Packed Out

Rhuthun/Ruthin boasts a higher proportion of fine dining establishments for its size. Even so, people these days seem to be content to stay at home and sit of Facebook all evening... There follows, however, something of an encouraging sign. We found…

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