Are your kids bored? Have a nose at the daily activities at Greenmeadow Community Farm that are running every day until Sunday 2 March. If you want to do the ‘Candling & Handling” make sure you call 01633 647662 prebook a place. Everything else is just turn up and join in 🙂 10.30am – Farm Opens […]

Thanks so much to Gary for sending me these photos. The Cwmbran Life email account and Facebook inbox is always good fun to read and I try and get around to following everything up. Who remembers the PleasureDome nightclub? Girlings? Pyramids? He took these pics when it was being knocked down along with 1000s of […]

A Cwmbran teenager wants to set up an internet radio station for the town. Dan Williams, aged 16, from Thornhill, wants to bring his experience of helping to run shows on Newport City Radio and Flame Radio to the town. He told Cwmbran Life: “I think an internet station would be a success in Cwmbran […]

A couple that met whilst working at Cwmbran Shopping over 30 years ago have celebrated their silver wedding anniversary. Joanna and Mike Kirkham-Jones met when they were both worked at the town’s Woolworths store. They caught sight of each other in 1982 while working on adjacent counters at the store. After leaving their jobs, the couple reunited […]

Cwmbran Community Council is looking for over 70 playleaders and volunteers to help run four weeks of fun and activities for all Cwmbran children as part of its summer playschemes. You must be 18 or over by 28 July 2014 to be considered for a playleader role and 16 or over by 28 July to be considered […]

  Children with disabilities are getting the best possible support to move around at Fairwater High School. The school now has four practitioners who have the skills to get children to improve their physical skills while having lessons. MOVE is programme that teaches pupils to become independent through the four skills of: Sitting, Standing, Walking […]

Two Cwmbran cygnets have been moved to Barry after being attacked by their parents. Swan experts told Cwmbran Life that this is “their way of telling them it was time to ‘leave home’.” Volunteers from Swan Rescue South Wales were told there was a problem at Cwmbran Boating Lake and found a female cygnet on her own. […]