I’M not an angry kind of person and it takes quite a lot of provocation to wind me up. But one thing sure to make me lose my natural cool is being messed about by other people for their own agendas.
Take this morning for example. A meeting was arranged between the Anwyl management and local councillors over a controversial fence erected on one of the only pieces of green land on the Park View Estate in Rhyl.
The Visitor has been covering this story since its erection and arranged, through Cllr Brian Blakeley, to cover this meeting on location along with our photographer Tony Mottram.
So there we were, 9.25am. Freezing cold standing in the car park beside the disputed land.
9.45am and Ray Beckinsale, a member of the residents association, cruises past and mentions that the meeting is actually taking place at the Anwyl head office.
Oh, how we cursed.
We then rushed across town and made it in record time to the Mona Terrace office.
Running breathlessly to reception, we announced ourselves and were told somebody would be seeing us shortly.
We waited, and waited. And then we waited some more.
10.20am I got fed up and left. Tony stayed until 11am, when they finally emerged from the boardroom.
It’s rude. It’s bad manners.
I don’t know if it was a deliberate ploy to keep us in the dark while they conclude their business behind closed doors.
Perhaps a plot to make us feel uncomfortable, or maybe revenge for all the negative publicity the company has received of late.
Perhaps it makes them feel powerful.
But if anyone thinks that treating reporters like that will either make the story go away, improve the publicity or do anything other than make us even more determined to dig deeper, then they are mistaken.

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