Showing posts from May, 2022
The cost of living crisis is not confined to groceries, petrol, electricity and gas. Yesterday, we spent £12.20 on a takeaway meal for two at Aydin's chippy. It's rare to buy a completely identical mean but we did just that, in October 2021, s…
Be in no doubt. Eisteddfod yr Urdd is arriving. What a joy to see bunting, boards, pallets and even a shipping container in national colours, all in readiness to celebrate the Eisteddfod in Dinbych from tomorrow. Plenty to see in Rhuthun/Ruthin town …
Is this container a road safety hazard? That's the highways department view. And the truth is that it does pose a risk. The first time you see it, you take your eyes off the road on a roundabout for a second and your risk increases. The container…
It's all change. At Monday night's town council, county councillor Huw Hilditch Roberts was bracing himself as he foresaw a return to opposition at county hall. Since 2017, Hilditch Roberts has been the lead councillor for education. With the…
A new mayor but the platinum jubilee is still a sore point for some on the town council. The first business meeting of the new town council and already there are tensions. Ethan Jones puts forward a notice of motion that all town councils are recorde…
If you want any evidence of the mildness of the winter just ended, here's the salt heap at Lôn Parcwr taken yesterday. Usually at this time of year, there's nothing left of it. It was mild all they way across the winter and particularly so in …
After all the good work in declaring a climate emergency and in designating bee-friendly roadsides comes this destruction, yesterday, of the wide verges all the way from Rhuthun/Ruthin to Dinbych, from hedge to hedge. Whatever happened to No Mow May…
The county council has just about finished at the new Llanrhydd community garden and it's showing much promise. The clay-lined pond already has diving beetles and the supervisor believed that it wouldn't take till the end of the current season…
Well, I got that wrong. Not the first two places but the third. Having predicted that Gavin Harris would pip Bobby Feeley at the post for the third of three Denbighshire council Rhuthun/Ruthin seats, I find that I was wrong... by 68 votes. Huw Hildit…
Evening dining in Rhuthun/Ruthin. Less choice and poorer food hygiene scores is the new reality. To start with, here's a thing. Upon the door of recently reopened Small Plates we see a November 2019 hygiene rating of 4 out of 5. Small Plates reo…
Now that the polling stations have closed, let's look back on a keenly-fought county council local election. Today, we chose three county councillors and we predict the result tomorrow will be: 1. Huw Hilditch-Roberts 2. Emrys Wynne 3. Gavin Harri…
April 24th was the last town council of the current 2017-2022 session. It ended mayor Heather Williams's year on a contentious note. Up to this point, she had managed to steer the town council clear of controversy. This was rather counter to the I…
There's no doubt an argument to suggest that if someone has an election pledge to support local businesses then they should at the least get their promotional leaflets printed locally. There are plenty of people who point out that doing otherwise …
