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Enjoy the views, but hide your valuables!

Thinking about heading out for a walk? If so, Monmouthshire officers have a warning for you…’Lock your vehicles and hide valuables!’ This simple message is being given following recent thefts from vehicles at local beauty spots including the Sugar Loaf car park. Since last summer, 8 incidents have taken place. Items stolen include walking and […]

Dyfed Powys Police encourages residents to secure their homes against burglars

Even though Dyfed Powys is a very safe area to live, it doesn’t stop thieves trying their luck so Dyfed Powys Police are advising residents to take some simple steps so they don’t become victims of domestic burglary. Most domestic burglaries are committed by opportunist thieves, who pick a house that looks unoccupied, has little […]

Men’s Sheds Club

Gentlemen, can we have your attention? Are you a man who wishes he had more to do? Do you enjoy things like woodwork, tool making or engineering? Or perhaps you enjoy using your mind and experience to repair things around the home? Perhaps your Dad or Grandfather would benefit from getting out of the house […]

Llantilio Pertholey WI

2015 is the WI’s centenary year! It all began in Anglesey on September 16th 1915, and the WI originated Canada in 1897. Closer to home, Llantilio Pertholey WI started at 2.30pm on March 27th 1919 at Ty-Gwyn Hall, Mard where a meeting was held by the kind permission of the matron, as it was a […]

Brecon Women’s Festival 2015

Brecon Women’s Festival has become an established event in Brecon’s cultural calendar and this year’s festival programme will take place from 6 to 17 March, at various venues throughout the town. The first festival took place in 2012. It was organised by a group of women who wanted to mark International Women’s Day, which takes […]

Open Art Competition

Penny Hallas was awarded the first prize of £500 by the judges in the Open Art Competition

Excitement is already mounting after the announcement that the Oriel CRiC Gallery in Crickhowell is again inviting artists to submit work for an Open Art Competition. After the extraordinary success of the competition in 2014, the gallery will again be offering the opportunity to artists from far and wide to exhibit in a two month […]

Friends of Cwmdu Music

Over the years many of you will have enjoyed concerts in St. Michael and All Angels Church, Cwmdu, with its fine acoustics. In order to enable us to sustain and develop our programme of music, we have recently formed a charity – Friends of Cwmdu Music (FCM). We have already organised four concerts for 2015 […]

Mardy Park Stroke Group

At Mardy Park Resource Centre, we’ve identified that Abergavenny could do better to support people who have been affected by strokes. We have been working with Luisa Stokes who works for Stroke Association Monmouthshire to develop a local stroke support group at Mardy Park. In doing so, we hope that we can offer people in […]

Crossword Solution: February 2015 issue

Save money with Renewables

Local renewables company Green Park Power rounds up the most recent energy saving technologies for residential and commercial properties. Green Park Power are Certified installers of ‘Power Router’ battery back-up systems. This emerging technology optimises the energy generated by putting unused energy into batteries to be used in the home through the evening. The system […]

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