Article: THE VIEW FROM HERE Little of the big city; Ian Parri finds a refreshing lack of metropolitan menace about St Asaph.(Features)

Byline: Ian Parri

ITH the lights from the myriad near-empty pubs attempting to entice innocent by-passers into their snare from the gathering gloom, the peace and quiet is rudely shattered.

A well-built boy racer wedged like a sardine into his tiny pulsating Renault applies right foot to throttle and screeches down the High Street, leaving a trail of smoke and booming music. A cattle lorry roaring uphill in the opposite direction applies a dab of heady bovine odour.

It's a balmy early spring evening in St Asaph, and the city's streets soon revert to reverent silence broken only by birdsong and the eight-fold clanging of the cathedral's bells ...

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