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Monthly Archives: April 2023

Abergavenny Writing Festival 2023

Abergavenny’s Writing Festival returns on the 21st and 22nd of April to the Kings Arms, the Melville Centre for the Arts and Abergavenny Library. The Abergavenny Writing Festival is about encouraging everyone to write and express themselves, whether for mental health and wellbeing, as a way of making a living, to bring about change, to […]

Llangynidr’s Ukrainians Raise Funds for their Homeland

When Maryna and Vadym Korolov sought refuge from the War in Ukraine they found a warm welcome here in our area. Since coming to Wales they have dedicated themselves to raising money for medicine and other vital necessities for those Ukrainians back home affected by the conflict. Maryna was heavily pregnant when the Russian invasion […]

Goytre Hall Wood Walk

It’s been a few years since I drew this map, and of course, many of the trees at Goytre Wharf (between points 4 and 5) have been felled since then. However, the trees old Goytre Hall Wood are still standing, and those woods host a wonderful display of bluebells around this time of year. Head […]

Search Excellence award for Damon of Mountain Rescue

The team has been out and about all over our patch since our last article. The month started with us being called by Dyfed Powys police to reports of an unconscious walker near Pen Gloch y pibwr, as we had our first team making their way up the mountain the Coastguard helicopter was able to […]

Abergavenny Focus April 2023

South Powys Focus April 2023

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