It’s the perfect example of reusing and recycling. Every parent feels the pain of buying new school uniform each year. Badges, colours and styles make them difficult to be used by others. But governors at Cwmbran High School have solved this problem. The last day of term is a non-uniform day and pupils are encouraged […]

Like millions of other armchair racing fans Miles Cook loves Top Gear. But it was an episode of the programme in 2007 where the presenters did a 24-hour challenge at Silverstone that inspired him to take up motor racing. He has gone from buying a BMW 320 3 Series on eBay to getting it race-ready and competing all […]

A valleys rugby league player/ coach who is undergoing cancer treatment was told by his doctors not to come into contact with anyone as his white blood count was so low. But Dafydd Hellard thought of an unusual way to get around this and get to the touchline for today’s match between his team, the […]

Joe Vecchio moved from Italy to Wales in 1965 to work at his cousin Mike’s barber shop in Llanyrafon (now Tino’s). In 1967 Mike opened up a shop in Fairwater with Joe as the manager.

A concert is being held at the Congress Theatre on Friday 5 October with fundraising for Help for Heroes.

A wonderful clip of the Cwmbran Carnival parade marching around the town in 1964 or 1965 has been put on YouTube. The video was filmed by Alan Henderson, a keen cine filmmaker and digitised by his son, Nic Henderson.

Do you know two builders called Brian and Mike who helped to build new homes in Hollybush?

Watch this close-up video showing the grass fire damage to the Iron Age hillfort of Twmbarlwm and the surrounding slopes.

  Asda Foundation Cwmbran kindly donated £1,000 to Cwmbran Centre for Young People (CCYP). Kayleigh Thompson, CCYP’s youth work coordinator, made the successful application to the fund and collected the cheque from Kate Box, community champion at Asda. The money will be spent on the centre’s summer activity programme.  

Morrisons has been working with the National Autistic Society and launched ‘Quieter Hour’ across all of their 493 stores. Every Saturday from 9am to 10am will see store lighting dimmed, background music switched off, loudspeaker announcements avoided if possible and other noises, such as the beeps at checkout counters, turned down.