Showing posts from July, 2016

Tesco @ Ten Part One—answering the key questions

Tmorrow in Rhuthun/Ruthin, it's Tesco's 10th anniversary . A few weeks ago, I asked you to complete a short survey on Tesco and its impact. With thanks to those who responded, here is part one. More will follow. We did the same thing five …

Buses in Administration

Ruabon-based bus & coach operator GHA Coaches is reported to be in administration. There were no GHA buses on scheduled service today. All its local school transport routes to Ysgol Brynhyfryd and beyond were covered by other contractors. In a…

Tesco@10

At Tesco's fifth anniversary in Rhuthun, readers of the Rhuthun/Ruthin Blog will recall that I published the results of an anonymous survey on their old and current at that time shopping habits, and the collective view on how Tesco may have chang…

Lest we Forget: a contrast

July 7th to 12th 1916 4,000 poppies adorned the foyer at Ysgol Brynhyfryd In our most comfortable world of 100s of satellite TV channels, two car families, anything goes hedonism and education past the age of the draught, we can never fully im…

Off Duty

Firefighters were yesterday evening putting up bunting for Saturday's parade. Some shops have already decorated their windows with a World War One theme. The parade starts at St Peter's Square at 10.30 a.m. and heads to Ysgol Brynhyfrd, wher…

Fall in Footfall

The latest published footfall figures from the British Retail Consortium are for February 2016. In Wales, high street footfall in February was 8.8 per cent lower than in the previous year. That's a frightening statistic. High street footfall in Wa…

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