A CHINESE takeaway in Ruthin has been handed a new one-out-of-five food hygiene rating, the Food Standards Agency’s website shows.

Welcome, a takeaway at 20 Borthyn, was given the score after assessment on March 29.

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The report into the takeaway rated its hygienic food handling and the cleanliness and condition of its facilities and building ‘improvement necessary’, and the site’s management of food safety ‘major improvement necessary’.

It means that of Denbighshire's 103 takeaways with ratings, 51 (50 per cent) have ratings of five and just two have zero ratings.

Welcome were approached for comment.