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 […]
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2 minute clip of Cwmbran’s Llanyrafon Manor the day before its country fayre- Baking, real ale and wellie-wanging
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 […]