When was the last time you visited Cwmbran boating lake? I popped there late yesteday afternoon with my daugher to go fishing. The car park was packed. We probably go there once a month to walk around the lake and play in the park. An arson attack demolished the old boathouse a few years ago. […]
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Cwmbran’s first Supper Club
Cwmbran’s Julie Nelson set up a catering business earlier this year after being made redundant. In just a few months she has sold out her first Supper Club and started producing her own unique lemon curd. This is in addition to making the most of local food suppliers to use her culinary skills to cater for […]
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Cwmbran’s Willy Wonka opens a sweet shop in Pontypool
When I heard that a guy I knew while growing up in Cwmbran had set up his first business I thought his story would be good to share on this blog. David Williams used his redundancy cash to set up a sweet shop in Pontypool. The shop is run by his son, Phil. It is a […]
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Free tickets to BBC1’s ‘Bang Goes the Theory Live’ in Cwmbran
Visit this link for free tickets to the shows in Cwmbran’s Congress Theatre on the 2 / 3 September http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/events/bang_theory_cwmbran
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Cwmbran couple in the audience of top TV shows
The chances are you have seen Cwmbran couple Mark and Corrine Ward-Jones on the telly. They love being in the audience of the country’s best-loved programmes. Mark feature in yesterday’s post talking about how he was hypnotised by Derren Brown. I was amazed when he told me how many shows they had been to see filmed. […]
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Cwmbran man hypnotised by Derren Brown
I was chatting to a neighbour, Mark Ward-Jones, at a BBQ last night and he told me that earlier this year he was hypnotised by the world-famous Derren Brown. Click this link here to listen to the audiboo of Mark telling his story. Mark was invited to the Irish Centre in London along with about 100 […]
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The family behind the tribute to GLC’s Fresh Prince of Cwmbran video
Here is an audioboo interview with Cwmbran’s Matt Rosser, one of the people behind a special tribute video to Newport’s Goldie Lookin’ Chain. Matt, his family and friends teamed up to film their own version of the’Fresh Prince of Cwmbran’ to the GLC soundtrack. They filmed at locations all over Cwmbran. Listen to Matt talk […]
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The ‘greatest travelling vaudeville show in the world’ comes to Cwmbran
This trio enertained shoppers in Cwmbran town centre today. It was billed as ‘the greatest travelling vaudeville show in the world.’ Their show was great fun and had a few surprises as you can see from the last 12 seconds of this 58 seconds you tube clip… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYfMKj_0xJA&w=420&h=345] After the show I spotted […]
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Real ale festival at the Greenhouse in Cwmbran
Click the following link to an audioboo interview with Nikki, the landlady of the Greenhouse pub in Cwmbran. http://audioboo.fm/boos/451923-nikki-the-landlady-of-the-greenhouse-talks-about-their-bank-holiday-real-ale-festival She talks about their bank holiday weekend real festival which runs until Tuesday 30 August. There is a BBQ and a marquee outside along with the usual menu available. Here is Nikki pouring a beer at the festival. Visit […]
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A walk around Fairwater Shops in Cwmbran
This is a local shopping centre in Cwmbran. I want to interview the business owners to find out their stories. I did this audioboo 20 minutes ago in the pouring rain. Here is the long link if you want to listen to it (1min 35secs) – http://audioboo.fm/boos/451258-a-walk-around-fairwater-shops-in-cwmbran . I like Fairwater Shops because it is full of small business […]