Showing posts from July, 2023
In parts, Rhuthun/Ruthin is quite literally rotting away. Walk down Well Street and in places building after building is looking a little tatty. What does this tell us? If the proprietor owns the property then it suggests that there is insufficient …
'No more pencils, No more books, No more teacher's dirty looks...' (Alice Cooper) Perhaps you shouldn't judge a school text book by its cover but I reckon that Brynhyfryd's retired-at-Easter headteacher Geraint Parry might well be …
Our driving correspondent, Jerome Clarskson, writes, Oh, for crying out loud! Who on Earth do these panjandrums think they are? Handing out tickets left, right, and centre as if it were confetti at a wedding. I mean, come on! What's the deal with …
This outside the Old Gaol caught me by surprise. It seemed like a consultation session for the pending levelling up funding. Unfortunately, as I'd not realised it was on, it wasn't convenient to call. Just when and where did the notice for th…
There's no doubt about the popularity in Rhuthun/Ruthin of our new mayor, Cllr Anne Roberts MBE. The esteem with which she is accorded resulted in I'd suggest about 170 to 200 Ruthinites present at her Civic Sunday church service yesterday at …
It's been exactly three weeks today since our new bakery opened on Clwyd Street. The managers are from Melin y Wig. The honeymoon period is over but there are still queues within and they even spill outside the premises. That would suggest someone…
Yesterday , we looked at the exemptions in Rhuthun/Ruthin for the new 20 mph default urban speed limit. We quipped that because there'd been no specific traffic orders (other than for the exemptions), perhaps it might not come in. Well, if you bel…
Published this very day are traffic orders pertaining to the new September 17th default speed of 20 mph . Not the orders for the expected blanket 20 mph limits, though; just the exceptions that will stay as 30 mph. Added to the one previous exception…
Yesterday’s Top Dre did not feature the usual compère, Huw Hilditch Roberts. Last year at Top Dre HHR is Mr Festival. It was he who organised the event and ran the show. Or so we all thought. Or so he convinced us while he hosted the event each year.…
