Showing posts from November, 2021
The health emergency and wife Elizabeth's hip replacement have resulted in a delay but yesterday there was a small gathering at the garden opposite Bridge Services to install a new bench with plaque in memory of the highly popular Ruthinite from T…
It was announced on Monday that town centre Black Friday footfall was 0.5 per cent down on the previous Friday. Previous figures suggest a 17 per cent rise was expected. We don't know the comparable figures for Rhuthun/Ruthin but there weren't…
... via being empty. There's no doubt town centres have changed. At least in theory we are visiting town centres more for leisure than for business or shopping. In any case, shops can barely compete with supermarkets. So, it should be no surpris…
Overnight yesterday (Friday) came the first seasonal storm of the winter. Storm Arwen. It was bleak and it was black. There wasn't so much noticeable damage in town this morning... except at Schola Ruthinensis, where a wall collapsed at one of th…
In buying On the Hill restaurant, the two-premises Fat Boar has now become a chain of three. We sincerely wish them well, as they prepare to open in Rhuthun/Ruthin. The experience will be different to On the Hill and that's no bad thing. The Fat B…
As work on the Cae Ddol earthwork concludes, Natural Resources Wales yesterday opened the unofficial link from Crispin Yard & Mill Street, above. This is designed to allow access on foot without eroding the bund itself. It's a good idea... but…
On and from November 22nd, Mount Street surgery moved from its current battered, neglected and crumbling building to its new location beside Ruthin Hospital. The old site was deemed not fit for purpose. The health board and county council between them…
For all the refurbishment at the Manor House (conservatory down: a significant improvement; and much interval modification), this crumbling wall continues to worsen.
It's very encouraging to note that the Castle wall at Cae Ddol is at last being repaired. It's been in a state for some years, both here and a few yards farther into the park itself. In fact, it has been in a state since at least the first Cun…
NRW finishes off its work at Cae Ddol, after nearly four weeks As the anniversary of January 2021's flooding approaches, will residents and businesses at the bottom of Clwyd Street and Mill Street be happy with the NRW's work to improve the C…
The Northern Link Road had just opened. The trunk road people had subsequently closed Park Road to resurface it, there being an alternative along the relief road. As part of that process, this sign appeared at the junction of Mwrog Street and Park Ro…
Here's something you don't hear about that often these days: a strike. Arriva's drivers will be on styrike from today about now for *five* weeks. Unless, of course, there's a settlement. Fortunately, Arriva is a minority player, these …
Added to Rightmove yesterday were these two adjacent semis, each available for £139,000. Cavendish Ikin's particulars state that they have recently been refurbished—this no doubt thanks to the January 2021 flooding, The agent says, 'A newly r…
We hear that our current mayor is using popular tool Dewi Duo Lingo to brush up her Cymraeg. This time, it's a health emergency project and the councillor's been using the lockdown favourite Duolingo program for well over 200 days. Good for h…
Continued concern at covid-19 rates in North Wales have resulted in the town council cancelling the Rhuthun/Ruthin Future exhibition for today, Saturday and Sunday. We can expect a decision on Monday as to whether the exhibition will open for its seco…
Regardless of the rights or wrongs of the Yes Cymru campaign, the activists are very liberal with their stickers. They are everywhere. Here, well above Dyffryn Services, on a lonely and little-used footpath, we see one such sticker that'll probabl…
Inane quote of the week, from the RAC on the continued pressure on fuel price, as appeared on the Daily Post website 25/10/2021: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/rac-issue-fuel-warning-petrol-21960401 RAC fuel spokesman said, 'Wit…
Overnight storms seem to have been responsible for the latest collapse of the Cunning Green wall. The latest episode sees the wall down adjacent to where in February 2017 Storm Doris brought down a tree which, in turn, caused that collapse. When afte…
