Josh Morris

A Ruthin woman says she was shocked to win a prestigious award at the UK Coaching awards. Anna Jackson was named Disability Coach of the Year for her work in wheelchair basketball.

The Cathedral in St Asaph was filled to the brim for the funeral of former County architect, show yard director for the Denbigh and Flint and chair of the St Brigid’s Trust Philip Eyton-Jones. Mr Eyton-Jones died in November after a short illness aged 77. The funeral took place on November 27.

Volunteers from a Foodbank are putting parcels together to be delivered to the region’s elderly over Christmas. The Vale of Clwyd Foodbank, working with the Red Cross, will be providing Christmas food hampers for those who may need them but might not feel able to visit the foodbank for one reason or another.

Police with sniffer dogs have searched Denbigh High School as part of a drive to clamp down on drugs use in the town. Parents were sent a letter confirming the police visit, with acting headteacher Dr Paul Evans stressing that no drugs were found.

A phone call from a friend over 20 years ago set a Ruthin man on a mission to solve a puzzle which has long intrigued historians and academics – did the Britain’s greatest ever playwright spend time in North Wales? Author and former university lecturer John Idris Jones is more convinced than ever that William Shakespeare stayed in Denbigh and Hawarden, and he has presented his argument in a newly published book titled Shakespeare’s Missing Years.

Controversial plans to build 75 homes near Denbigh have been approved on appeal. The plans were approved by the Planning Inspectorate after a two day inquiry into the plans for land near Brookhouse Mills in September. They were initially rejected by Councillors against officer recommendation in March.

Police are appealing for information after two schoolgirls were indecently assaulted in Ruthin. The latest incident happened at around 5pm on Monday December 4 when a 14-year-old girl was exiting Ruthin School grounds heading towards Mold Road. She was grabbed from behind and indecently assaulted.

An AM and a Councillor have accused a developer of effectively abandoning ahousing estate leaving residents in uncertainty and confusion. The Glasdir Estate in Ruthin which was flooded shortly after being built in 2012, is being built by developer Taylor-Wimpey.

Ruthin was awash with colour after the town’s Christmas lights were turned on on Saturday, with people from the town itself and beyond turning out in their hundreds. The lights were turned on at 5pm after the town had already been brought to life with stalls from 10am, and the parade of decorated trucks and vans.

Sion Corn will be visiting children around Ruthin and the surrounding villages from November 30th this year. The big man himself leaves his grotto every evening at 5pm prompt and tries to get around before all the children go to bed.