Showing posts from December, 2018
Ringwood Picture Framers has recently introduced a window to include items by local artists (or those with a connection to the town). The display changed in December and features a seasonally snowy Rhuthun/Ruthin scene also featured on some local Ch…
The so-called free range egg production facility proposed for Llanfwrog Rural hasn't gone down at all well with its neighbours. The fact that the huge shed will ruin their view isn't a legitimate planning consideration but the additional traff…
Shopkeepers are prone to pessimism. It's in their job description. But, this Christmas, too many of them are complaining about trade for it to be brushed off as exaggeration. Forget declining large town centres and decaying retail parks. For …
At yesterday's town council meeting, the police sergeant present, Martin Jones, rather impudently stated he was concerned that the 25 reports he received per month of speeding motorists from Crispin Yard were "not real criminals". He ac…
It's been all go on the Square this week. Following Saturday's vehicle fire/domestic incident , the Myddelton Grill is closed from Wednesday because of an energy cock-up, they say. This relates to unpaid bills rumoured to be £50,000 by the peo…
Following the opening of Goodman (Ye Olde Anchor) and the Trefor dorms, yesterday Schola Ruthinensis showed off its new dining hall which will open to students in January and which will be open from breakfast till 9.30pm. All glass and wood, it's …
Figures on footfall in Rhuthun/Ruthin and across Denbighshire show the extent to which the internet has taken root. Fewer of us are visiting our high streets. It's easy to point the finger in all sorts of directions for this but ultimately we onl…
This was the scene at 7.20am this morning, on the Square. Police were called at 7.00am to a vehicle on fire and by the time I managed this shot a second police vehicle two minutes before had arrived. There was a woman on the Square sobbing. It trans…
Ymlaen Rhuthun will have deemed yesterday's Christmas "festival" a success. The Christmas food market (which didn't actually have that much food, though no one seemed to mind or notice) was busy and the Square full. By midday, al…
