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 …
This tickled me. It followed a Free Press article yesterday on Ethangate . How can there be no one available for comment at Rhuthun/Ruthin town council... if there was someone available to speak to the press?
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…
Ethangate rumbles on. Yesterday, Cllr Ethan Jones resigned from the town council. Let's take a look at Jones's resignation letter. Once upon a time, if you had a beef, you composed a letter to the local newspaper. Because of the effort requir…
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…
