A FLINTSHIRE business is in the running for a top award.

Rhydymwyn General Stores has been shortlisted to win a Countryside Alliance Award in the Welsh finalist village shop category.

The awards are the Countryside Alliance’s annual celebration of British food and farming, enterprise and heritage through small hard-working businesses.

The awards are now in their fourteenth year and have become the definitive rural business award to win.

A spokesman for Countryside Alliance said Rhydymwyn General Stores had done ‘extremely well’ to be shortlisted, after the awards received more than seventeen thousand nominations this year.

Established in 1960, Rhydymwyn Service Station has a long history within the Rhydymwyn community operating successfully as a service station and vehicle hire business. Owner Robert Standring converted part of the garage into a much-needed village shop back in May last year.

Since then the business has gone from strength to strength and has received much support from local villagers.