Here's something deliberately controversial. Amid a flood of congratulatory comments, there were those in Rhuthun/Ruthin yesterday who remain uneasy about the convoy of lights. Admittedly these were few but the number is growing. In 2021, we sugg…
There's a parody of the famous Monty Python line, 'What have the Romans English ever done for us?' Well, irrespective of your views on today's C word, they're giving us an extra bank holiday. Yes, another one . Perhaps not as many…
During the cost of living crisis, newly resigned town councillor Ethan Jones is upset at the £1,000 spent by the town council on the buffet during the mayor's inaugural civic Sunday. He has a point but is it a fair one? In true Private Eye 'L…
Whatever the rights or wrongs of Ethangate , it's just a pity that the town council has in the last 18 months become so political. Previously, we've had Conservatives (sometimes mascaraing as independents) who've acted on their judgement o…
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…
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…
This from the Daily Post website today. Did the journos responsible realise that the ethereal inset of Ruthin School's former principal Toby Belfield effectively gave him a halo? Or was that by design, as in black comedy? Belfield left on Febr…
The scandal at Scola Ruthinensis gets worse. Published yesterday was an Estyn inspection report after a November 2019 visit. It concentrated on safeguarding and, here, there were many strengths but lost of weaknesses. This is on top of the Care Inspe…
It's not been a good week for our public school, Schola Ruthinensis. News emerged in the Times newspaper and others, not least the Daily Mail and the Daily Post, that the school's head has been sending what are referred to as 'flirty …
The county council is again consulting on its replacement local development plan (LDP). This time, landowners have put forward additional candidate sites for development mostly as housing. The latest are south of Bro Deg and within the triangle Borthy…
More on Ysgol Brynhyfrd's new uniform . Unlikely friend Toby Belfield , head of Schola Ruthinensis, has come to the defence of his opposite number Geraint Parry on Facebook in support of Brynhyfryd's new uniform. He equated the cost of the uni…
Let's be honest, Ysgol Brynhyfryd's current uniform does not give the right impression. Neither does it do the school justice. Add to this that some parents allow their offspring to ride roughshod all over it and you have a disaster on legs. …
Following news of the sod cutting for two brand new schools in Rhuthun/Ruthin, here is another school story. It was a controversial decision, to close two neighbouring schools and plant a new one, especially given one was Welsh medium and the other…
July 7th to 12th 1916 4,000 poppies adorned the foyer at Ysgol Brynhyfryd In our most comfortable world of 100s of satellite TV channels, two car families, anything goes hedonism and education past the age of the draught, we can never fully im…
Page five of yesterday's Daily Mail Rhuthun/Ruthin features in the Daily Mail... again, for all the wrong reasons .This is the second time in sixth months. Now, the Daily Mail newspaper's taken up the story of the litter fixed penalty, in…
It used to be that any UK subject would confront a litter lout by picking up strewn items and handing them back. This was enough to embarrass the culprit. No more. You face a tirade of abuse that makes such action uncomfortable or impossible. So, inst…
In 10 years, this is only the third in our non-series on Rhuthun/Ruthin villages... the first dates back to 2008 and the second to 2010 It's bang in the middle of Denbighshire. It's barely eight minutes by car from Rhuthun/Ruthin. Yet, it…
