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If there’s one way to get a fully immersive great outdoors experience, it’s via the medium of a Festival. We’ve all seen the photographs of festival goers thigh deep in mud, floating tents and epic queues for toilets. Oh yes. But festivals are such good fun and this year’s Green Man Festival, taking place between […]

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Despite there being no parade this year, Abergavenny and District Carnival on the 14th July was still a packed day that offered something for all the family.   Bailey Park began to fill up early Saturday morning with stalls from local businesses and craft workers, community associations and charities; Deakin’s funfair managed to negotiate the […]

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Abergavenny and District Carnival is now in it’s 14th consecutive year and is still going strong! The carnival is organised by a small committee of volunteers, who all work full time and help with carnival in their spare time. Despite having no parade this year due to there being a recent parade for the jubilee, […]

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Riders from across the UK will be descending into Abergavenny in July as the annual Festival of Cycling takes place for a sixth year. And again the big weekend will have a huge amount for people either on or off a bike to enjoy over the course of four days. Festival organiser Bill Owen has […]

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The much anticipated urban music festival, “Breakin’ Out” which was due to take place this weekend at Bailey Park,  has been postponed until Saturday, 8th September 2012. The organisers state that,  “this will enable the Festival to be bigger and better than originally anticipated.” It has been reported that this last minute change of plan […]

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2012 marks 60 years of the Queen’s reign. Not since Queen Victoria has a monarch spent sixty years on the British throne. With an extra long holiday weekend between 2nd and 5th of June to mark the occasion, there’s plenty to get involved in to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. The weekend looks set to be […]

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Arts Alive Wales are welcoming visitors to their studio on Brecon Road, Crickhowell for a Summer Open Day on Saturday 2nd June, 10am- 3pm, during the Jubilee bank holiday weekend. The free event is part of this year’s Crickhowell and Area Open Studios and Galleries Art Trail. The event features a Craft Sale with pottery […]

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The Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games and, to mark the 2012 London Olympics, the Torch Relay will start in Land’s End on 19th May and travel around the UK for 70 days in the lead up to the opening ceremony. On 25th May 2012 the Olympic Torch arrives in Wales at […]

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Calling all writers, readers and lovers of fiction.   Following our very popular Flash Fiction competition that we recently ran in association with Bookish and The Word Counts writing group, we are very excited to invite you to our Flash Fiction Event on National Flash Fiction Day – Wednesday 16th May from 7.30pm at the […]

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Cylch Meithrin Y Fenni, the only Welsh medium pre-school setting in Abergavenny, is to hold two open days on Monday 21st May and Thursday 31st May between the hours of 10-11.30 and 1- 2.30. If you are considering a nursery place for your child from September 2012, then this is a great opportunity for parents […]

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