Articles...
Jan 31 2008
CYNON MP Ann Clwyd has said that she will not give up on the six Post Office branches scheduled to close in the Cynon Valley....
Jan 31 2008
RHONDDA Cynon Taff has the lowest crime level of any comparable area in the UK....
Jan 31 2008
RHONDDA Cynon Taf Council says it is bitterly disappointed at Postwatch’s response to closure plans in the borough....
Jan 31 2008
THE history of Tower Colliery is told in the book Cynon Coal, produced by the Cynon Valley History Society....
Jan 31 2008
THE fame and appreciation of an Aberdare poet is spreading across the world....
Jan 31 2008
CAN you help a former Aberdare woman trace her family tree?...
Jan 31 2008
POLICE are appealing for information as to the whereabouts of 35-year- old Lee Woodward....
Jan 31 2008
A SPECIAL fairytale competition for local schoolchildren has proved a massive hit throughout the borough....
Jan 31 2008
TYRONE O’Sullivan has been to Westminster, the home of British politics, to make his case for coal to the Welsh Affairs Committee in the last few years....
Jan 31 2008
CHRISTMAS 2004 saw the Tower miners celebrate 10 glorious years as the owners of their own colliery....
Jan 31 2008
THE Tower story will continue long after the closure of the pit, according to its chairman Tyrone O’Sullivan....
Jan 31 2008
WALES’ First Minister Rhodri Morgan has paid tribute to Tower boss Tyrone O’Sullivan....
Jan 31 2008
LAST Friday was a day of mixed feelings for Tower Colliery chairman Tyrone O’Sullivan....
Jan 31 2008
CYNON Valley AM Christine Chapman has presented local Mental Health Support Group Friends R Us with a grant of £5,000 from the Awards for All Wales programme....
Jan 31 2008
LOOKING to the future, some 120 of the Tower workers are expected to transfer to two newly-opened drift mines in the Neath Valley....
Jan 31 2008
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown led the tributes to the Tower workers....
Jan 31 2008
THEY came in their hundreds to witness an historic moment. As miners past and present prepared to walk the short distance from the pithead to the gate for the final time, families, friends and supporters lined the road....
Jan 31 2008
Aberdare Valley Coors Snooker League...
Jan 31 2008
CONCERNED students at Coleg Morgannwg have met Cynon AM Christine Chapman to voice fears about the future of their course....
Jan 31 2008
ABERDARE Barclays Bank employee Gail Burke has raised £620 for Cwmbach Infants’ School....
Jan 31 2008
RAIL passengers face days of disruption next month, as part of work on the Cardiff Valleys network....
Jan 31 2008
DESPITE receiving a “miserly” grant from the Assembly, the leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has promised services won’t be cut....
Jan 31 2008
PLANS to revolutionise the European credit market may have knock-on benefits for Welsh shoppers....
Jan 31 2008
MORE than £10m of funding has been secured in the South Wales Valleys for voluntary organisations working to develop child and family support services....
Jan 31 2008
BUILDERS, architects, planners and traders are celebrating Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s Building Control Quality Awards....
Jan 31 2008
A FUNDING shortfall for Mines Rescue in the South Wales Valleys could cost lives....
Jan 31 2008
CEMETERY worker and metal detector enthusiast Denis Pople almost threw away a rare mediaeval ring he unearthed because he thought it was a washer!...
Jan 31 2008
AN Aberdare father is making plans to vanish – but his family needn’t worry, for with his magic skills he’ll reappear in no time....
Jan 31 2008
ABERDARE’S St Elvan’s Church is looking for more bell-ringers....
Jan 31 2008
CYNON Valley MP Ann Clwyd has always been a strong supporter of the Tower miners....
Jan 31 2008
THE miners of Tower Colliery have bid a final farewell to the pit that found fame across the world....
Jan 31 2008
THE FINAL chapter in the history of deep coal-mining in Wales drew to a close on Friday, January 25, when Tower Colliery – the last remaining pit in the once-thriving South Wales coalfield – closed down....
Jan 31 2008
THE man at the forefront of all this has been Tower’s former NUM representative, Tyrone O’Sullivan....
Jan 31 2008
AS the miners held their heads high and walked through the gates of Tower Colliery for the last time, there was one very special woman among them....
Jan 31 2008
THE MINERS at Tower Colliery have given around a quarter of a million pounds to a variety of local projects – most of which involve young people, as an extension of the Tower philosophy....
Jan 31 2008
CYNON Valley residents are being urged to be on their guard following a spate of so-called ‘doggie disappearances.’...
Jan 31 2008
THE Kara bangle is not an ornament which can be worn on only some particular occasions and be taken off at some other times (Leader, January 23)....
Jan 31 2008
WE invite readers of this newspaper who would like to take part in an exciting new road race – the BUPA London 10,000 on May 26 – to join us as we have limited places available....
Jan 31 2008
I AM sorry to read that your reader P Lewis, who was disappointed with the Christmas lights in Aberdare, thinks Aberdare Chamber of Trade and Commerce bear some blame in this matter (Leader, January 16)....
Jan 31 2008
WHAT planet is Leanne Wood on this week – Planet Politics?...
Jan 31 2008
THE case of a 14-year-old Sikh girl excluded from school for wearing a religious bangle is to be heard in the High Court, it has been decided....
Jan 31 2008
NHS Trusts in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Pontypridd are pleading with patients not to miss vital health checks....
Jan 31 2008
I FEEL compelled to write and complain about the state of the public archway linking Market Street and Commercial Street in Aberdare town centre....
Jan 31 2008
Beyond this door,...
Jan 31 2008
WHEN Pastor Martin Rees visited India and saw young children begging on the streets, he became a man with a mission....
Jan 31 2008
SARIKA Singh should be allowed to wear her Kara bangle to school....
Jan 31 2008
I WRITE this with great sadness. However, if we are ever to improve and remove ourselves from the continuing farce that is Welsh rugby’s coaching merry-go-round, I feel we must address the backward culture that has gripped Welsh rugby....
Jan 31 2008
I BELIEVE Plaid Cymru peers at Westminster are walking oxymorons – contradictions in their own terms....
Jan 31 2008
RHONDDA Cynon Taf Council has signed up to a Wales-wide campaign to cut its carbon emissions and achieve best environmental performance....
Jan 31 2008
SOUTH Wales Police are hunting for a 23-year-old man....
Jan 31 2008
YOUNG pianist Joseph Colbeck-Jones has successfully passed his Grade One examination....
Jan 31 2008
CYNON Valley residents have been rewarded for the part they are playing in regenerating their communities....
Jan 31 2008
LOSING three and a half stone and dropping six dress sizes is no mean achievement....
Jan 31 2008
TY Hafan Children's Hospice is challenging football fanatics in Cynon Valley to sign up and support their five-a-side Charity Shield Tournament....
Jan 31 2008
CYNON Valley AM Christine Chapman has met women whose lives have been affected by breast cancer....
Jan 31 2008
AN INNOVATIVE scheme to plant a tree for every new baby and adopted child in the Cynon Valley has been welcomed by Plaid’s Leanne Wood AM....
Jan 31 2008
THREE hundred jobs could be created by efforts to boost tourism in the South Wales Valleys with £1m in grant aid coming to the Cynon Valley....
Jan 31 2008
A GRIEVING Aberdare pensioner is struggling to maintain his late wife’s grave because of a problem with moles....
Jan 31 2008
A SECOND Post Office closure could hit the Mountain Ash area, it was announced last week....
