Last Sunday’s choir concert at the Parkway Hotel in Cwmbran raised over £2,000 for Prostate Cyrmu. Cor Aduniad is made up of past and current pupils of Llantarnam School.
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27 friends will packing shoppers’ bags at Cwmbran Asda in memory of Shae Button this weekend
If you’re in Cwmbran Asda this weekend make sure you pop some change in the buckets of the men and women who will offer to pack your bags. Twenty-seven friends who knew Shae Button, the three year-old who passed away last week from meningitis, will be on the end of the tills to raise money […]
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Cwmbran street has the 13th slowest broadband speed in the UK
Cwmbran residents woke up this morning to find a street in the town has the 13th slowest broadband speed in the UK. Llantarnam Road features on a survey by uSwitch. http://www.uswitch.com
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Garden furniture stolen from Greenmeadow in Cwmbran
Have you been offered any garden furniture? CSO Matthew Cameron is reminding Cwmbran residents to be extra vigilant after garden furniture was stolen from a garden in Pandy in Greenmeadow in the early hours of Wednesday morning. If anyone has any information email him on [email protected]
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Balloons will be released in Cwmbran tomorrow in memory of three year-old Shae Button
Friends and family of Shae will be selling balloons in the town centre tomorrow (Saturday 19 April 2014) in memory of the three year-old who passed away from meningitis on Monday. You can write your own personal message on a balloon before they are released at 4pm. Everyone is then invited to the Football Factory […]
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Former Cwmbran pub to reopen as an Indian restaurant
The Fairwater House pub is reopening as an Indian restaurant. Workers are inside the building now doing the refit. I spoke to a man who told me he was the owner. He said the plan is to open “in the summer”. The Fairwater House has been boarded up since September 2012.
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Phillip Schofield met pupils and teachers from a Cwmbran school today
Phillip Schofield bumped into a group of Cwmbran schoolpupils and teachers in Paris today 🙂
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Stunning photos inside the former police training college in Cwmbran
The former police training college in St Dials shut down in 2005 and Torfaen Council says up up 456 homes could be be built on the site in the future. Have you ever wondered what it looks like inside the corridors, rooms and even the swimming pool?
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Llanyrafon Manor in Cwmbran. The country fayre
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzp-fV53xtQ&w=500&h=305] Today (Sunday 13 April 2014) was the country fayre fayre at Llanyrafon Manor. Everyone I spoke to said it was a cracking event. I approached a few small businesses selling cider and another selling bread and both sold out within a few hours. The manor was full of smiling faces and people having […]
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The fairies at Cwmbran Boating Lake are still here and have repainted their front door
Six days after Cwmbran Life featured a story Fears that the fairies who live at Cwmbran Boating Lake have abandoned their home this has happened. Their pink door that was peeling and looking a bit worse for wear has been given a new lick of bright red paint. This was their door last Sunday. It is […]