A top gardener from Cwmbran was in last weekend’s Sunday Mirror sharing his tips on growing giant vegetables. Kevin Fortey and his brother Gareth are among the UK’s top experts on growing giant vegetables. In 2011 Kevin’s six-year-old son won the UK title for growing the biggest sunflower head…a whopping 67inches in circumference. Last year […]
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Young Cwmbran girl is a top football striker
Bianca Ford is pictured centre with PC Zaihd Rouf (right) and Anthony Price, Security Manager (left). (Back row left to right) Jay Dibble, Dominic Samotaj, Bianca, Evan Skuse. (Front row left to right) Jack Colcombe, Sam Spiteri, Sam Aspland, Abbie Souch. An eleven-year-old girl from Cwmbran has proven to be a top striker after scoring the winning […]
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Cwmbran’s Scene 123 Cinema. Meet the man who locked the door for the last time after 40 years of films
Cwmbran Life was set up in 2011 and I’m so annoyed that I’ve taken this long to interview someone from Scene 123. A post in 2012 picked up quite a few comments but I didn’t make the effort to go behind the scenes and see who was behind this well known town centre landmark. Fast forward to […]
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Cwmbran man wins competition to train with Amir Khan and Nathan Cleverly
The thought of training with Amir Khan and Nathan Cleverly would scare most people from entering a competition where that was the prize. But Marcus Warner from Cwmbran was over the moon at winning this knockout prize from Maximuscle. He won the training session with the two top British boxers as part of Maximuscle’s Protein […]
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Two girls in the 1972 postcard of Cwmbran Boating Lake- Local mum says ‘they’re my daughters’
This post, ‘Old postcards of Cwmbran. Yes, Cwmbran used to have its own postcards 🙂 Wish you were here!‘, attracted a lot of views, shares and comments. It led to Cwmbran mum Chris Ward contacting Cwmbran Life to say ‘my daughters are on one of the boats’. It wasn’t a new surprise to Mrs Ward […]
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Robbie Kennedy tells Cwmbran Life his rehearsals can be heard in the street outside his home :-)
Six days after wowing the judges on Britain’s Got Talent and notching up over 675,000 views on You Tube Robbie Kennedy gets disturbed in the middle of rehearsing at home by a call from Cwmbran Life. Whoops. I don’t want to take his attention away from spending time getting his performance spot-on so I keep […]
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Old postcards of Cwmbran. Yes, Cwmbran used to have its own postcards :-) Wish you were here!
Cwmbran used to have its own postcards as you can see from this cracking set borrowed from a local collector who has been picking them up from over the years from flea markets. So if you were staying in Cwmbran what would you write on a postcard? This is what two ‘holidaymakers’ wrote. “Weather lovely […]
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Old postcards of Cwmbran. Yes, Cwmbran used to have its own postcards :-) Wish you were here!
Cwmbran used to have its own postcards as you can see from this cracking set borrowed from a local collector who has been picking them up from over the years from flea markets. So if you were staying in Cwmbran what would you write on a postcard? This is what two ‘holidaymakers’ wrote. “Weather lovely […]
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Meet the owner of the Emily Rose Vintage shop in Cwmbran and find out how she left her job to start a business
“When you hear the word vintage, to some people it conjures up an image of old smelling clothes and looking old fashioned but I think its about being able to find a vintage garment and making it your own, being creative and mixing it with today’s trends.” Liz Prosser In a 20 minute chat Liz […]
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Cwmbran football team cheer Cardiff City onto the pitch before yesterday’s game against Bolton
Henllys Rangers FC under 14s team were chosen to wave flags and cheer Cardiff City and Bolton Wanderers onto the pitch before yesterday’s game. That’s them stood around the centre circle in this photo. Good to see Cwmbran played a part in Cardiff’s last home game before they jump up to the Premier League.