Rhuthun / Ruthin

Town and Around is always a good read. It actually covers stories and issues in more depth than the Free Press . Unlike the Free Press, it majors on ‘long form’ articles with some in-depth analysis. The current Spring 2024 issue is out and available f…

We all recognise that local journalism has changed and with it so has the Denbighshire Free Press. It isn't quite what it used to be. It still has a useful role in gathering together press releases and Facebook comment in one weekly publication. B…

Would you visit (or even want to move to) Rhuthun/Ruthin, after seeing our eight minutes on Channel 5's ' Sunday Times Best Places to Live ' TV programme? (Broadcast yesterday.) According to the programme, house prices in Rhuthun have dec…

It's simply piece of punctuation but is Y Bedol justified in applying it to the sentence on the front page of its April 2023 edition? Might the page be improved were the question mark to disappear? Surely, we all know without question that the sen…

The shot the Sunday Times chose to illustrate Rhuthun was unexpected It's out. The Sunday Times 'Best Places to Live' guide. So, what does it say about the Welsh winner , Rhuthun/Ruthin? And, how accurate is it? We liked the Old Courthouse…

Yesterday's (April 27th, 2022) most read articles on the Free Press website. Note items 2 and 10. How depressing that these feature as most read on a news site about the locality.

The Denbighshire Free Press website tells you which of its stories are the most read. Alongside some bad news about the coronavirus, some news about the bake off TV programme (two articles!) and a UFO investigator comes 'Here's how you can hel…

Back in April 2020 , we suggested that the Denbighshire Free Press was down to a pre-virus circulation of about about 3,600 per week (a pure estimate, of course). The virus would've also taken its toll, as few of us ventured outside, other than fo…

We hear that the Denbighshire Free Press' Shaun Davies has left the paper. This is another blow to local reporting and it further reinforces the local paper's downward spiral... eventually to oblivion. Davies was introduced to us in the June 1…

Today's Free Press cover story on the possibility of four-weekly bin collections was very restrained. The online edition reads, "Councillors say Denbighshire residents are confused by bin changes". No invective, not like the way the Free…

When the council proposed an annual charge to collect garden waste , everyone locally seemed to think the sky would fall in. At that time, we contrasted the front pages of the Denbighshire Free Press and Rhyl Journal. Both were (and are) owned by the …

Ruthin Town & Around has had a makeover. That's the journal of the Ruthin & District Civic Association. Not only does it now look professionally put together—no longer using the dreaded Microsoft Publisher—but some of its content has a bit…

The Denbighshire Free Press sees a 15 per cent price hike today. It's gone up 10p to 75p. The number of journos has reduced by at least one and at the same time the editor has left (although it's believed he will be working elsewhere in the No…

Castle Bell News and the Daily Post were clearly relying on an increased circulation following the success at the Rio olympics of Jade Jones. Whereas the paper was probably popular in Jones's home town of Y Fflint, business was anything but boom…

By the end of the day, Tesco had sold out of Wednesday December 2nd's edition of the Denbighshire Free Press. Apparently, couples had been buying multiple copies in order to stand a greater chance of winning some sort of weekend or other, or so on…

...when I despair of the Facebook page created in this Blog's name. "Is it me or does nobody else think it's shocking and disgusting that Brynhyfryd High School have done absolutely nothing to raise money for Children in Need" …

It might sound petulant but I rarely buy the Free Press. I still read it, mind you. It's available in the local library. But boycotting it is just my small, perhaps insignificant, protest against its journalistic style, something that seems to hav…

I can see the headlines of next week's Denbighshire Free Press already. "Outrage as pupils defy sweaty sweatshirt school rule" "Please Sir, if we spill this orange liquid down our sweatshirts, Sir, can we take them off, Sir?&q…

Major Facebook furore this evening c/o Isaac Birchall. Basically, for such a prominent young businessman, I do wonder whether he needs to be more careful. Business people need to be cautious in their pronouncements lest they lose general respect: Som…

The editorial comment in last week's Free Press was not particularly appreciative of the government's decision to through out the Conwy-Denbighshire merger. It said that both Conwy & Denbighshire pinned their hopes in a voluntarily merger…