Showing posts from November, 2017
Through our letterboxes w/c November 20th, Lidl's has been posting two £5-off vouchers (when you spend more than £30). It's available for use only at its Dinbych store. Wonder why. A Christmas pop-up shop has appeared on Well Street, in th…
It's been a fortnight since Aldi (and Peacock's) opened in Dinbych. Things have settled down at Aldi. No longer is the store busy. The car park is now half empty or worse, much of the time. At lunchtime yesterday, this is what I saw in te…
Footfall across town centres in Denbighshire is down again. Footfall counters suggest, on average, there's been a nine per cent drop. Y Rhyl and Prestatyn are standing up better than rural market towns. So, comparing quarters 1 & 2 in 2016 an…
The Chirk to Holyhead road is important to Ruthinians travelling from Cerrig along the A5 into Snowdonia and for those wishing to gain access to the English midlands via Llangollen. A report on yesterday's talk to the history society by David Ri…
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Carl Sergeant situation, the coroner will be meeting this afternoon in Rhuthun/Ruthin to open proceedings on Sergeant's death and we can expect something of a media circus outside County Hall (where this wil…
Completed yesterday were railings at the top of Clwyd Street, by the Children's Society and near Barclay's Bank. This was at the request of the town council. It's a thoroughly good idea. This is a particularly steep part of town and everyo…
What do Cumbernauld, Scotland; Grimsby, England; and Dinbych all have in common? As of today, their very own Aldi supermarket, that's what. Indeed, the Dinbych discount quarter took a significant step forward today, with the opening of both A…
It was perhaps an odd front page but today's Denbighshire Free Press features the planning application to turn The Venue into a storage facility. The report lacks detail. On page 3, there was a half-hearted attempt at journalism "as clubber…
We've oft commented that the Corwen Carpets' shop in Well Street is a complete mess. That continues but the owner has now expanded into the former Ruthin Old & New premises, where he's selling mattresses. This certainly beats proppi…
