While watching the Cwmbran Woodland Players rehearse for The King and I last night I tried to add up how many hours of work it takes to put on a show. Upstairs in Croesyceiliog’s Woodland Road Sports and Social Club (the Coffee Bar) I counted about 40 people made up of actors, musicians, committee volunteers and backstage helpers. Using very rough calculations based on the number […]
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Banner to celebrate Fairwater High School in Cwmbran’s ‘best results ever’
Pupils, teachers and parents arriving at Fairwater High School are being reminded that the recent GCSE exam results were their best ever. This big banner has been popped up on the school fence so it can also been seen by car drivers and bus passengers on Ty Gwyn Way. Click here to read the story […]
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Ex- Cwmbran nightclub DJ is named Welsh Elvis 2012 and picked to lead a world record attempt
Twenty-nine years after being nicknamed ‘Elvis’ at Croesyceiliog School in Cwmbran, Darren Jones has been named Welsh Elvis 2012. Many Cwmbran people will remember Darren, who grew up in Pontnewydd, as the main man behind the decks at the Pleasure Dome Nightclub in the 1990s. But last month Darren, aged 40, beat 13 other Elvis impersonators from across […]
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A Cwmbran coincidence. I met a student from Cwmbran on the London Underground and persuaded her to be interviewed.
Eighty thousand athletics fans left the Olympic Stadium last night thrilled at seeing Jason Smyth win the T13 100m and Oscar Pistorius qualify for tonight's T44 200m final, both setting new world records. We headed for West Ham station and the district line to get us back to Richmond and our hotel. My niece spotted […]
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Cwmbran’s Kyron Duke with some home town fans at the London 2012 Paralympics
Cwmbran’s Kyron Duke bumped into some fans from his home town outside London’s Olympic Park 🙂 The javelin and shot put ace told me was having a ‘brilliant’ time at the Games and looking forward to competing on the 6/7 September. Click this link to read an interview in the South Wales Argus.
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The Best Welsh Elvis 2012 to perform in Cwmbran
The man voted best Welsh Elvis 2012 is performing in Cwmbran. Darren ‘Graceland’ Jones is helping to raise money for the Persian Cat Rescue in a gig at the RAFA club on 26 October. ‘Tom Jones’ will also be putting in an appearance.
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£1.70 for a bag of fruit gums and a coke. Is Cwmbran home to the cheapest cinema in Wales?
A post last week on the Scene 123 cinema in Cwmbran brought back lots of memories for local people. The price of £2.50 for a ticket is incredible. I took my daughter there yesterday to watch The Three Stooges. This was my first visit since 1993. We visited the tuck shop (if you’ve never been here this is […]
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Cwmbran Life is shortlisted for the Wales Blog Awards 2012
The shortlist was announced today for the Wales Blog Awards 2012 and Cwmbran Life is in two categories. The blog is up for ‘Best Community Blog’ and ‘Best New Blog’. To say I’m happy is an understatment. I’m shortly heading out to a Cwmbran pub to buy a pint and read a newspaper. The last year […]
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Cwmbran man’s new life as a hip hop singer in Norway
A man who grew up in Cwmbran is now the lead singer of a hip hop band in Norway who have just released their latest album. Paul Horsley, age 35, lived in Dinas Path and went to Fairwater infants, junior and comprehensive. Here he tells his story: “I was swept off my feet by a Norwegian girl during my […]
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Cwmbran’s Big Bang was in a ‘town near Newport’…in ‘Southwest Great Britain’ :-)
The big bang heard in Cwmbran late on Monday evening made headlines. The stories in the Daily Mail and the Tecca website will make Cwmbran’s 50,000 residents smile. The Tecca website’s headline is: “Meteor explodes over England with violent force. A golf-ball-sized meteor caused a major stir, rocking Wales with a sonic boom….The extraterrestrial explosion occurred just […]