APRIL started with Abergele residents objecting to plans for a chicken farm which they claimed would be a monstrosity.

Conerns were raised about the potential noise and pollution from manure as well as increased traffic and extraction fans on a colony of protected lesser horseshoe bats if the proposed operation at Y Fron, Twyll Llwynog was given the go ahead.

The public were canvassed for suggestions on how Rhyl centre could be improved.

Denbighshire County Council said they wanted to draw up a town centre masterplan to complement work completed on the promenade and elsewhere. As part of the process, residents and visitors were asked to submit their views via a questionnaire at the White Rose Centre over the Easter long weekend.

A week later a Rhyl pensioner was slapped £100 penalty notice by a security firm for walking his dog.

Retired civil servant, Jim McCaughey, said: “I felt very intimidated. I’m not a well man, my wife thought I was going to collapse when I arrived home."

Mr McCaughey said the officials from Kingdom Security arrived in a van after he had been walking his border terrier.

An invitation to the Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding made a young Rhyl carer’s year.

Hannah Evans, who also plays the clarinet in Rhyl Marching Band, looks after her mum, who has severe mental health problems.

The 20 year old, a former Ysgol Glan Clwyd pupil, works at Duffryn Support Agency in Rhyl. 

We also saw how noise and fumes from a bus wash was making the lives a Rhyl family a misery.

Varughese Koshy said fumes and noise from the apparatus at the depot in Ffynnongroew Road, hailed as green and clean on Arriva North West and Wales’ website, had shattered his family’s home life.

He said at the time: “There is this horrible, very strong bleach smell that is suffocating.”