Articles...
Feb 21 2008
REGULAR readers should know how much I, and possibly 95 percent of the British public, loved Life On Mars....
Feb 21 2008
SOCIAL networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace can have a big impact on business success and their growing importance will be discussed at the next Business Club event....
Feb 21 2008
YOUNG people on bikes are the ‘scourge’ of the Rhondda, in the eyes of many....
Feb 21 2008
DAVID BRADSHAW should be celebrating his 19th birthday today (Wed, February 20)....
Feb 21 2008
PRIMARY school pupils welcomed the Year of the Rat in style with a Chinese-themed party....
Feb 21 2008
A CIRCULAR walk from the Rhondda Heritage Park Museum takes place on Friday, April 11 at 10.30am....
Feb 21 2008
PUPILS at an Ystrad primary school are safer now their school gate has been replaced after a £2,500 fundraising campaign....
Feb 21 2008
ONE in six primary and secondary school places in Wales are left unfilled, Welsh Conservatives claim....
Feb 21 2008
A PENYGRAIG man who assaulted a woman he met on the internet has been given a community order....
Feb 21 2008
A MAN who drank up to two bottles of spirits per day died of natural causes, an inquest heard....
Feb 21 2008
A ONCE derelict building that attracted drunks and vandals has been turned into a successful business thanks to the efforts of its owner and support from Rhondda Cynon Taf Council....
Feb 21 2008
THE organisers of the Rhondda Fach Gala Concert, Pontygwaith Regeneration Partnership, were delighted to hear the news this week that operatic superstar Rebecca Evans had won the coveted Grammy Award for the best operatic recording of the year....
Feb 21 2008
THE Community Cancer Services received a cash boost when a fundraising stint by valley-based Buffs raised £900....
Feb 21 2008
CHILDREN at a Porth day-care centre could soon have a new place to play....
Feb 21 2008
I AM trying to obtain my grandparents’ obituaries....
Feb 21 2008
HOSPITALS in Rhondda Cynon Taf are in line for a share of a £33m equipment ‘jackpot’....
Feb 21 2008
I AM asking for information on a motorbike called the Bown which was made in Llwynypia on the site of the new hospital in 1952-1953....
Feb 21 2008
The Rhondda Theatre Group will stage their version of The Buddy Holly Story at the Parc and Dare Theatre from April 29 to May 3. Tickets are available from Cheryl Martin on 441917 or the Parc and Dare box office on 773112....
Feb 21 2008
RESIDENTS of Ferndale are fed up of driving past their homes, travelling 600 metres down the road, and then driving back up again....
Feb 21 2008
I know I am losing my hearing when this happens....
Feb 21 2008
A TREBANOG couple’s love came full circle this week as they celebrated their wedding at the same place the groom proposed....
Feb 21 2008
I UNDERSTAND that Yvonne Caple is standing down as councillor of the Cymmer Ward....
Feb 21 2008
HAS the National Health Service got money to waste?...
Feb 21 2008
THE District Auditor has been asked to investigate Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s appointment of a councillor’s son to a £60,000 post....
Feb 21 2008
THE family of Paul Briggs, who died last month, are upset after an explicit article about his relationship with his girlfriend appeared in a national magazine....
Feb 21 2008
KEEP it local – that’s the message from Rhondda residents....
Feb 21 2008
AN INQUEST has heard that a truck driver disappeared from his family home and was found hanging from a tree two hours later....
Feb 21 2008
AN 18-YEAR-OLD with a temper problem has been called a “thug” by District Judge Jill Watkins....
Feb 21 2008
RHONDDA Rotary Club members are singing the praises of a local choir after they handed over a cheque for £425....
Feb 21 2008
A COUNCIL tax rise of almost five per cent for next year has been deemed “reasonable” by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council....
Feb 21 2008
SCHOOLGIRL Sophie has made a splash in the swimming pool and picked up her one-mile certificate....
Feb 21 2008
ARMED police rushed to the scene after a man was spotted walking down a Rhondda street waving a gun....
Feb 21 2008
A MOTHER has slammed the craze for roller shoes after her daughter slipped and knocked herself unconscious....
Feb 21 2008
AROUND £140,000 may be invested annually over the next three years to erect alley gates to deter yobs and criminals in Rhondda Cynon Taff....
Feb 21 2008
COWARD as I am, I decided that 6.40am on a chilly Wednesday morning was far too early to keep my insincere resolution to board the first scheduled passenger train to Ebbw Vale for more than 40 years....
Feb 21 2008
WE have heard from Teddy Jones of Aberdare, lately Maerdy, and Joan (Howells/Jones), as in her letter to the Rhondda Leader, about the demolition of the Maerdy Workmen’s Hall and Institute....
Feb 21 2008
YOU recently published correspondence about hot-air ballooning across Wales....
Feb 21 2008
I WOULD like to ask MP Chris Bryant to call on the Home Secretary to give Police Community Support Officers the same power as a Special Police Officer after they have done their training....
Feb 21 2008
THE Donde Stars are back! The hard-working, dedicated Rhondda band have been huddled in a Carmarthenshire studio recording their as yet untitled debut album, but now they are getting ready for live gigs....
Feb 21 2008
I READ with interest the letter from I A Price of Stanley Court proposing travel between South and North Wales via hot-air balloon or dirigible....
Feb 21 2008
A PROMISING young Rhondda artist is about to exhibit his work in Edinburgh in his first solo show....
Feb 21 2008
The Author’s Story...
Feb 21 2008
RHONDDA Cynon Taf is celebrating its first anniversary since becoming a Fairtrade Borough....
Feb 21 2008
A MOTHER has slammed the craze for “Heelys” roller-boots after her daughter slipped and knocked herself unconscious....
Feb 21 2008
POLICE officers in Penygraig need to do a full sweep of the area after a popular member of Dunraven Conservative Club was stolen last Friday....
Feb 21 2008
FERNDALE Community School had a special visitor in the form of Rhondda MP Chris Bryant....
Feb 21 2008
THE time is right to step up the greening of the Valleys, says Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones....
Feb 21 2008
SURF’S Up may have not set the box office alight, but Steven Spielberg liked it, so did the surfing community, and it’s also in line to win an Oscar at this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony....
Feb 21 2008
CHILDREN often need to be told to eat their greens....
Feb 21 2008
MUCH is made of the question of dog fouling and I agree totally with the arguments and endeavour to insure that if my dog does foul, then I clean it up....
