Rhuthun / Ruthin

One week to go to 20 mph . Next Sunday sees the biggest traffic speed shake up since we abandoned the man walking ahead with the red flag. Last week, we all received a publicity leaflet from the Welsh government. We admit the following is selective bu…

Coming soon... the slowing down of traffic on the A542 Horseshoe Pass is being hurried through (excuse the pun). This is yet another stretch of road where Ruthinians will find a hindering, unnecessarily low speed limit. Yet, the motives for the chan…

A smattering of tourists. Blue sky. Bright sunshine. Clear views. Spring flowers and tulips. The Coffee Cabin open (for takeaways) (from March 30th). People lazily wandering around. The Lord's Garden unveiled for free. In other words, it's har…

Of course, it could simply be paranoia. Why, though, as I walked through Rhuthun/Ruthin this afternoon at about 5.30p.m., did someone from a car hurl abuse at me? There was no one else around. A white Mercedes C-class rounded the Anchor Corner and the…

A case in point concerning traffic speeds in town came this afternoon, shortly after lunch. It was in the form of the confrontational approach of one of the local fauna, a young boy racer, complete with lugubrious moll beside him. He was behind the wh…

Traffic through and around Rhuthun/Ruthin today was the highest since lockdown. It helped that it was warm and sunny, unlike the preceding couple of days. Yesterday, of course, was either very wet or there was a persistent drizzle before and after t…

One thing I definitely haven't missed during lockdown is the ripping, earsplitting sound of motor cyclists who come to play in North Wales. This year, with a significant number of fine weekends, you'd expect more bikers than a plague of greenf…

At yesterday's town council meeting, the police sergeant present, Martin Jones, rather impudently stated he was concerned that the 25 reports he received per month of speeding motorists from Crispin Yard were "not real criminals". He ac…

An unintended consequence of the new schools seems to have resulted in footfall reductions in the town centre. Chatwin's staff report that takings are down as there are now fewer parents popping into town after delivering their children to the fo…

In February, work began on the average speed cameras of the A5104 over an 11-mile stretch from the Clawddn Poncen near Corwen via Bryneglwys to Pontblyddyn.The camera heads have been up for a fortnight and today we expect them to be commissioned into…

The long, wet, snow-filled and, above all, cold winter has passed. It's been the worst since the dreadful 2010 . Temperatures today reached a heady 14°C in the spring sunshine and didn't the town come alive. More people were out than we seem …

If there are two phenomena that signal the start of spring, it's these: the mowing of grass and the arrival of bikers. On Friday, council staff were out cutting public space grass, around Lôn Parcwr, Glasdir, the Craft Centre and Denbigh Road.…

There should be no place on our roads for idiot drivers. There was me thinking that it was only the spectating boy racer hangers-oners who drove inappropriately during the annual noise-fest they call the RAC Rally/Wales Rally GB. You know the type…

The last day of the RAC Rally/Wales Rally GB took place in Rhuthun/Ruthin, with spectators given the opportunity to watch the refuelling event at the cordoned-off Park Road car park. This was about boosting the number of visitors in town with promot…