domtyler said:
Good god, I've just looked at the house prices in Llangollen!
We could swap our teeny tiny three bed terrace in East London for a large five bedroom detached house with extensive grounds and panoramic views over the Denbighshire countryside!
Just a shame there's fack all to do there I s'pose!
Apart from the sheep that is!
B)
And if you think I'm swapping with you...........
But, as for things to do here's a story from the local paper today. The chap who got six years lived 12 feet from me on the other side of the road.
A JEALOUS husband has been jailed for six years for savagely beating up a workman whom he wrongly thought was sleeping with his wife.
Steven Dunne travelled to Liverpool city centre from his home in Llangollen armed with a 2ft pickaxe handle to confront Phillip Allerton, a man he believed was sleeping with his wife.
But in a series of bizarre coincidences, he ended up hitting Phillip Hall, a work colleague of Mr Allerton’s, causing him serious injuries, scarring him and leaving him with a permanent lisp.
Site supervisor Dunne, 43, of Trem-y-Creigiau, had rung Mr Allerton the night before the assault on December 17 last year, shouting abuse and threatening to go to a building site in Hanover Street, where he worked, to confront him.
Unbeknown to Dunne, Mr Allerton took the following day off work.
The next day when Dunne arrived at the site, he saw Mr Hall leaving his wife’s office.
The court heard that at the exact moment Dunne rang Mr Allerton’s phone to confirm his identity, Mr Hall lifted a cigarette to his mouth.
Wrongly thinking he was answering his phone, Dunne shouted out “Phillip” and when Mr Hall turned round he was confronted by Dunne brandishing the wooden axe handle.
Dunne hit Mr Hall at least five times around the head, continuing even after he fell to the ground.
Mr Hall was off work for five weeks and now talks with a permanent lisp.
Dunne admitted causing grievous bodily harm, saying he had gone only to confront Mr Allerton, but had seen “red mist” and picked up the piece of wood.
But Mike Stephenson, prosecuting, said Dunne had deliberately worn workmen’s clothing to get on to the building site and had taken the weapon.
Jailing him for six years, Judge Bruce MacMillan said: “You travelled from your home to Liverpool specifically to confront this man you thought was having an affair with your wife.
“You weren’t going to argue with him, you came to teach him a lesson.”