Showing posts from November, 2023
The just published winter edition of Wetherspoonnews (sic) is out and available from, well, Wetherspoon's . There's a feature on what used to be called Wetherlodges, now simply known as Wetherspoon Hotels. There are 55. Within and on the cover…
Did you receive two leaflets and a 20 mph survey last week from Dr James Davies MP? Davies is the sitting MP for Clwyd North (Y Rhyl, Prestatyn, Dinbych). It seems that traffic speeds in Wales have reduced but in our view compliance at 2…
They'll ring the bells for anything these days, even mammon. So it was to the sound of 45 minutes of peels that at 10 o'clock yesterday morning the so-called Rhuthun/Ruthin Christmas Extravaganza began. There was an 80-strong choir at The Old…
Yesterday lunchtime and a gang of road workers finished painting white and yellow lines in and around Station Road and Well Street. It was 11 years ago that one Sunday when leaving our chapels and churches we found a similar situation both here and i…
Tomorrow, we are at the start of three Saturdays of Christmas specials aimed at keeping us local this festive period. ■ Tomorrow is by far the most important: it's the so-called Christmas extravaganza that has been organised not by anyone officia…
This week, for the first time since it reopened, we ate in the new Siop Nain café. It's had something of an internal makeover. Readers may recall that the previous proprietrix closed in September and entered what she called semi-retirement. (Methi…
Ruthin people each year are so supportive of our remembrance service , even during bad weather. Yesterday's was the coldest and wettest in five years and more. The band of rain could not have arrived at a less fortuitous hour. It was hoods up and …
We should be very grateful that we have town centre-based DIY-type shops. We have two, one being King's, where you can buy penny numbers of screws and nails (not in the huge quantity other retailers wish you to have) plus an array of other bits an…
There are reports of Cara's Bar opening at the Clwyd Gate . A trip up there yesterday (to see what was going on) indicated that there was nothing going on. Part of the former restaurant building did have window coverings to ensure there was no sno…
