Showing posts from January, 2008
So, the protesters outside and in yesterday’s county council planning committee weren’t there in vain. Our county councillors rejected the two Rhuthun wind farms by 18-4 (with two abstentions). A victory for those opposed to living with wind farms, b…
Derwydd Bach isn’t the only wind farm application at today’s Denbighshire planning meeting. There are two others. One is to increase the cohort of turbines at Nantglyn, near Dinbych, by 13. The other is for the Brenig wind farm off the B5401 west of …
Tomorrow may see the setting of an important precedent, as Denbighshire planners have before them an application from Tegni Cymru Cyf for the first Clocaenog wind farm, at Derwydd Bach. Rush down to Corbett’s on Castle Street and, if they’ve opened …
There are a few gaps appearing on the shelves of Rhuthun’s Somerfield, as the store completes its journey that started as KwikSave 26 years ago and ends with its closure as Somerfield in just 19 days’ time. The weekend was a busy one for the super…
Could it be that the B&M Bargains store planned for the Somerfield building will pose a greater challenge to Rhuthun/Ruthin’s independent traders than Tesco? Since its arrival in Rhuthun from July 2006 , Tesco has dominated the town’s thinkin…
“Nadolig Rhuthun proved to be a great success. Crowds were entertained throughout the day, with events starting at 10.30am through to 6.30pm and roads closed until 8pm.” – Free Press, 3 January 2008. Traders “lost so much business due to the fact th…
CITS Rhuthun’s third computer consultant is about to open, following conversion work in progress since last November. Named CITS, it will fill the vacant former Celf a Chrefft adjacent to and owned by Well Street Pharmacy. Indeed, the owner of CITS …
Staff at Rhuthun’s Co-op will this be breathing a huge sigh of relief this weekend, following the announcement in the Vale Advertiser yesterday that competitor Somerfield is to shut. But the town may be worse off overall, with the arrival this sprin…
Remember the 19 comments on local journalism left on the post about nuclear power? Those who read and contributed to those comments learnt a lot about local journalism. Yet, may be the Free Press wasn’t so wrong in using its front page before Chris…
Somewhat later than anticipated is Rhuthun/Ruthin’s look back at what we felt were the major events of 2007… January— in a post attracting quite some interest, we asked the question, why doesn’t the town refer to itself as Rhuthun, the Welsh spellin…
Have you noticed a spate of recent criminal damage in Rhuthun? There have always been certain times when someone has put a town centre window out. At the moment, there’s been a wave of them, in Well Street. To add to the long standing boarded up win…
Update 4 January 2007—13 comments on Conspiracy? When this blog first saw the light of day, I didn’t even notice there was a “Comments” facility. It must’ve just come with the Blogger package. It remained unnoticed, even when this site attracted it…
