Just for a bit of fun I did this quick video walking around Llanyrafon Manor today. Tomorrow, Sunday 13 April, is its first traditional country fayre from 10am to 4pm. Free entry. “Celebrating the best of rural produce in Torfaen and Caerphilly” A real ale tent will feature several local brewers. Cwmbran artisan baker Bill […]
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A career ladder from the mail trolley to the chief exec of Monmouthshire Council- Cwmbran’s Paul Matthews
Paul Matthews is the chief executive of Monmouthshire County Council but has always lived in Cwmbran. His local government career has taken him from being a teenager delivering mail around the offices at County Hall in Cwmbran to the top officer job at Torfaen’s next-door neighbours.
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Cwmbran foodbanks gave 16,000 meals to struggling residents in the last year. Audioboo with a volunteer
Foodbanks in Cwmbran have given 16,640 meals to struggling residents in the last year. There are two places in the town where people in a crisis can get a food parcel that lasts for three days. Cwmbran Life visited the Salvation Army Hall in Old Cwmbran. An upstairs room stores donations that are made up […]
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Daughter spots her dad cleaning the windows of their flat in a 1960s photo of Cwmbran
This cracking photo was posted on Cwmbran Life’s Facebook page last week and gave one local resident a nice surprise. Pam Cameron has got in touch to say she can spot her late dad cleaning the windows of the flat they once lived in on Pontnewydd Walk during the 1960s. She said: “If you zoom […]
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Farage v Clegg. A Cwmbran firm’s ‘Twitter Worm’ helped broadcasters show how voters felt during the debate
Did you watch the Farage v Clegg debates? Tens of thousands of tweets were sent as the two politicians went head-to-head but it was thanks to the skills of a Cwmbran-based firm that the broadcasters were able to make sense of what the electorate was saying online. Within minutes of the end of the second […]
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Cwmbran to get its own sandy beach for the summer. Artist’s impression and Audioboo
Yep. You read that right- Cwmbran is getting its own sandy beach that will be built in Gwent Square. Listen to this Audioboo of Michael Bell, events coordinator at Cwmbran Shopping, talking about plans to bring buckets, spades and deckchairs to the town. listen to ‘Michael Bell talks about the urban beach coming to Cwmbran […]
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Fears that the fairies who live at Cwmbran Boating Lake have abandoned their home
Two years ago visitors to Cwmbran Boating Lake were thrilled to spot that fairies had moved in to one of the trees. But now locals are worried that the state of their front door means they must have moved out. A man who visits the lake most weekends said: “We are worried they have found […]
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“I like Cwmbran Boating Lake because…” – A bit of fun using Audioboo
Audioboo is a fun app that allows you to easily record voices and share them online. During a visit to Cwmbran Boating Lake this morning I stopped a few dog walkers, anglers and families and asked them to finish off this sentence… “I like Cwmbran Boating Lake because… I used Audioboo to record their answers. […]
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Tips from some Cwmbran residents who have set up a community group to make their area a better place to live
St Dials has a bunch of residents who have set up their own community group. I met with them to find out why they did this and the kind of things they have achieved. People talk about 'communities' a lot and it was great to hear from a genuine community group about what it […]
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An old tree that kids used to play on with a rope swing is blown down in Cwmbran
This old tree in Greenmeadow Woods in Cwmbran was popular with children who play in the area. It blew down during the strong winds in February. You can see the blue rope around one of its branches where children used to have a rope string. Richard Davies, from the Cwmbran Ancient Society, said: “For […]