The latest positive local news from Denbighshire: food and drink, nightlife, people, arts, sport and business stories from La Vida North Wales.
Run by Wendy Thompson and her daughter Robyn Unsworth, Ruthin's Ffansi Ffrogs won Best Fashion Store for a second year and the overall title, after dressing more than 1,000 girls for prom.
Physiotherapist-led Active Futures classes, which help older people rebuild strength and balance, are launching in Ruthin, Broughton and Caia Park for the first time.
The tearoom in a converted Methodist chapel near the Pontcysyllte World Heritage Site has been placed in Tripadvisor's top 10 per cent worldwide, and recently served tea to Celebrity Traitors stars.
Led by Ruthin songwriter Isaac Birchall, acoustic folk band Cats and Crows release This Time Will Pass Anyway on 27 November, with a launch concert in the town that shaped the record.
Chef Bryn Williams visited Vale Vineyard in the Clwyd Valley for his S4C series Cegin Clwyd, where Gwen Davies tends more than 8,000 vines on the lower slopes of the Clwydian Range.
Nominated by a nine-year-old sailor, the volunteer training team at Llyn Brenig Sailing Club has won an RYA Cymru Wales Impact Award after introducing nearly 160 people to sailing.
Ruthin Craft Centre, the Centre for the Applied Arts, has a busy winter of exhibitions, artist talks, a weaving demonstration and festive decoration workshops, alongside its retail gallery and café.
Members of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Young Ranger programme have been learning the centuries-old skill of scything to care for the wildflower meadow at Ruthin's historic Nantclwyd y Dre.