Readers of Cwmbran Life were asked to come up with questions for candidates standing for Torfaen. Around 40 questions were submitted on the Facebook page .

Readers of Cwmbran Life were asked to come up with questions for candidates standing for Torfaen. Around 40 questions were submitted on the Facebook page .

Cwmbran has a large Nepalese community and these three young residents are helping to organise a fundraiser and candlelit vigil for the Nepal Earthquake Appeal.

Cwmbran teenager, Kyla Graham, has just returned from representing Great Britain at the World Synchronised Skating Championships in Ontario, Canada.

120,000 loom bands were handed out last year in Cwmbran Shopping last year as it hosted the hobby’s first UK mini-festival. The work involved in marketing the event has been rewarded with a place on the shortlist at the BCSC Purple Apple Awards.

Cwmbran’s Gav Felvus who leads top tribute act Guns 2 Roses is bringing the band back to Cwmbran in the middle of their European tour of Italy to raise money for the funeral and family of a popular biker.

Sarah Hayward won the Mecca Bingo Star Search regional final held last Sunday (29 March 2015) in the Cwmbran club and picked up £500 for an emotional performance of Emeli Sande’s Clown.

Sara Stevens, 46, from, Cwmbran, will be running the Morrisons Great Birmingham 10k in May- to raise funds for Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where her nephew, Ollie, is being treated for a rare bone cancer.

John Devereux, who played top-level rugby for league and union, is the guest speaker at the Welsh Charitables RFC next charity dinner in Cwmbran.