Showing posts from September, 2019
The news yesterday of the proposed closure of Rhuthun/Ruthin's county archive feels a little like a small scale mirror of what happened in Rhuthun/Ruthin way back in 1974. Gates locked in future? That was the year that historic Denbighshir…
After a false start when its original buyers backed out (owing to the cost of refurbishment), we understand that, as of yesterday, Ruthin Castle Hotel is now sold. Expect details to emerge in the next few days of a £5m sale to mystery buyers. No one h…
There's a sense that Rhuthun/Ruthin is rehearsing its arguments regarding the proposed Clwyd Alyn affordable housing at Glasdir. Rehearsing its arguments, for example, in the wake of the mass expansion of housing that the next local development pl…
Another death . This time, it isn't someone in the public eye, just an ordinary person. It's Mike Hession, known in his retirement for his deliveries around Rhuthun/Ruthin of leaflets and of the Clwyd Connection magazine. Few mere mortals get …
'Did you go to Elwyn Edwards's funeral?', I asked of a retired Glyndŵr district council officer. 'No' came the reply. 'No, although I did think about it just to make sure he was actually dead'. Such agonising bad taste clea…
Someone think not. And this could be a rehearsal for the vast amount of housing Rhuthun/Ruthin might see in the future. Yesterday, a petition appeared via Facebook to try to persuade the County Council to prevent the development of 100 houses on l…
