Twenty-two men and women crammed into the back room at the Queen Inn in Upper Cwmbran for the November meeting of the Gwent Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. I’ve been a member of CAMRA for at least six years but this was the first time I plucked up the courage to attend a […]

Wayne Kennedy has a new show coming to Cwmbran at the Congress Theatre on Friday 30 November. Wayne’s last show, The Rat Pack, sold over a million tickets internationally and now his new show is starting on a UK tour. The Love Machine is described as a “fun up-tempo show featuring the greatest love related songs of […]

Cwmbran has its first tap room– a bar where you can buy a pint of beer a few metres away from where it was brewed. The award-winning Brew Monster is on Avondale Business Park.

Croesyceiliog School’s girls under 13 team won the regional EFL Trust cup run by Newport County FC. Across the UK every one of the 72 English Football League clubs organise a six-a-side competition in their area.

Two friends from south Wales fronted an M&S campaign to support the UK’s largest breast cancer charity, Breast Cancer Now. Keeli Morgan, from Cwmbran, and Michelle Llewellyn, from Bridgend, were one of five pairs of friends, relatives and partners who shared their experiences and realities of breast cancer. It brought together the women affected by the disease and […]

The members of Pontnewydd Male Choir will be on the pitch at the Millennium Stadium to sing the national anthems before Wales v Tonga on Saturday 17 November.

A book written by  Louise Taylor, health board consultant midwife and Emma Mills, lead clinical research midwife, has been awarded the Innovation in Midwifery Prize at the Wales and South West Maternity Festival. The book ‘Your Birth – Stories from midwifery led areas’ was officially launched on 10 October 2018 at The Riverfront in Newport […]

Qualified nurses are being urged to attend a recruitment open day being held to fill over 40 roles in care homes across the south Wales valleys and M4 corridor. Hallmark Care Homes, a family-run provider of care homes across the UK, has a number of nursing vacancies available across seven of its properties in Newport, Cardiff, […]

Cwmbran Stadium was packed out last night as 1,200 dance fans enjoyed sets from the some of the world’s top DJs. This was the third Clubland Classix event to be held in the town.

The annual NHS Wales Beat Flu campaign is encouraging everyone eligible for flu vaccination to get protected.