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Oooooh! Look at that new poster for a Giant Pink Sex Toy.
What on earth do residents of Gadlys, near Aberdare think of this new poster ? Gadlys people seem so reserved and respectable… they must all be tickled pink.
The sexy poster was designed by creative boffins at Rhondda Cynon Taff Council – perhaps that should be Randy Cynon Taff Council – as part of the Shape It internet project.
The logo is supposed to represent some shapeless cartoon-type character, but many people think it looks like a pink sex toy.
Was it wise to put this poster up in one of the busiest roads coming out of Aberdare ? Imagine the evidence one would need to provide to the car insurance company should an accident arise… “I was driving along at fifteen miles per hour, when I became distracted by a poster with a ten foot pink dildo on it, sponsored by the European Union and Rhondda Cynon Taff Council”. Aberdare’s Lush Lingerie sell a range of these type of sex toys. Just go in and ask for one “like the Council’s Shape-It logo” and they’ll know what you mean.
Leighton Andrews Assembly Member for Rhondda, you are hereby charged … with driving your website at very high speeds but with no Search Facility.
So your constituents can’t read what you’ve said in the past.
This is a dangerous way to drive a website Mr Andrews.
Being able to Search your website is very important, as you know.
As this is your first Internet Offence, you will receive a caution Mr Andrews.
Good day and safe surfing.
Newspapers love to play games with a pliant readership.
The most common game played is Hide the News Story.
Take a recent example …
Did you catch the news story there ?
Page 26 of the Cynon Valley Leader, November 16 2006.
Had it been pushed just a little further back it would have ended up in the darts or football results section of the newspaper. But that might have drawn attention to the story.
About the size of two or three postage stamps.
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Today is Buy Nothing Day 2006. It’s a day to switch off from shopping and live more. It’s a chance to opt out of the pre-Christmas shopping frenzy albeit for just one day in the year. And most importantly it is a day to ask yourself serious questions and reflect on how you live your life.
Here’s a challenge… Choose a day of Voluntary Simplicity.
Opt out of shopping, spending, buying, consuming for just one day.
Choose it.
Let your life speak.
They don’t call her the “Cynon Valley Liar” for nothing…
Adopt a Welsh orphan baby for Christmas…
beautiful and healthy-looking baby dolls.
For sale at Rheola Market every Saturday.
It is thirty three years to the day that Max Boyce recorded an album which launched his career as a singer and entertainer. ‘Live at Treorchy’ was performed at Treorchy Rugby Club. Is there any one in the Valleys who has not got an old copy of this ?
Max Boyce is of course alive and well and his career isn’t doing too bad either. The recent success of the Welsh rugby team has helped create a new interest in this talented entertainer from Glynneath.
So much so that a Max Boyce tribute band was formed – called Boycezone…
Boycezone have raised over £13,000 for charities such as Children in Need.
Boycezone will be playing at this Saturday’s International against New Zealand on Saturday November 25th 2006 at Queen Street 12.00 – 1.00pm, and Westgate Street 3.30 – 4.30pm
Hard to say who was the more frightening in town … Shrek or Judith Toms
One came in green and the other glowered in incandescent purple.
In the big rainpour around 4 o’clock in the afternoon a mass of parents and kids huddled together in the entrance and foyer of Aberdare Library.
And then the comic green monster with the stub nose and Scottish brogue appeared. Eyes suddenly lit up and little faces smiled in anticipation.
Like a rainbow forming on a dreary day, a touch of magic came to town.
The King of Comedy… it’s the one… the only Mr Elvis Preseli.
Geraint Benney is the only bald, Welsh-speaking Elvis in the world.
Wonderfully photographed by Morganne Bajai
Click here for a LARGE version of this photograph.
The King of Comedy makes a great desktop wallpaper 
Firefighters attended a fire at Aberdare Tesco in Depot Road, Gadlys on Saturday 18th November at 19.28. The fire involved a large amount of toilet rolls on an artic trailer.
These were severely damaged by fire, and fire fighters from Aberdare fire station used two jets and two hose reel jets to extinguish the blaze.
Local residents claim two people were arrested on suspicion of arson.
The trial of Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi High Tribunal for crimes against humanity was marred by so many procedural and substantive flaws that the verdict is unsound, Human Rights Watch said in a 97-page report released today.
“The proceedings in the Dujail trial were fundamentally unfair,” said Nehal Bhuta of Human Rights Watch and author of the report. “The tribunal squandered an important opportunity to deliver credible justice to the people of Iraq. And its imposition of the death penalty after an unfair trial is indefensible.”
Human Rights Watch opposes the death penalty as inherently inhumane punishment and says that executing Hussein while other trials are ongoing will also deprive many thousands of victims of their day in court.
Ann Clwyd MP chairs the campaign group INDICT which has collected much evidence of the crimes committed under Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Ms Clwyd, who is also Chair of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group, has welcomed the guilty verdict however she is opposed to the death penalty.
Blaenau Gwent Labour Party have selected Keren Bender as the Labour candidate for next year’s Assembly elections. No Viagra salesman this time instead Blaenau Gwent have decided to experiment with a good old-fashioned socialist!
It is far easier to admit to being a crack-addict or sacrificing goats on Valleys mountain tops than to admit to believing in socialism in today’s Labour Party. All credit to Blaenau gwent Labour Party on electing some one who, at least, claims to be a socialist.
Fifty-year old Bender from Cwm is an official for the steel Union Community. After her selection she promised to “stand for traditional socialist values of quality jobs, rights at work and world-class public services here in the community”.
How will Ms Bender fare at the election? It’ll be a tough test… remember June 2006.
Here’s some free wisdom gleaned from Trish Law, the current incumbent, speaking at the Assembly Debate on the Draft Budget in late October 2006 ….
“All I heard throughout the last by-election—and just remember that I was there before many of you for next year—was that New Labour is more Tory than the Tories.” – Trish Law AM – click here to read the whole debate at the Assembly’s website.
Aberdare RFC clubhouse – “the rugby club” – recovers after a bout of “
scaffold-itis”.
Club Chairman Humphrey Evans said “we are very pleased with the work done.”
What do you think of the photos of Aberdare Rugby Tournament ?
The Campaign for Real Ale, CAMRA, will be running Wales’ biggest beer festival at Cardiff City Hall next week. Featuring real ales from across Wales, the rest of the United Kingdom and for the first time beers from Germany, the 2006 Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival is set to be the biggest ever.
There are now over 30 breweries in Wales and most of these will be represented at the biggest real ale event in Wales. On the Friday afternoon at the festival, the Champion Beer of Wales competition will be judged by an expert panel.
According to James Daley, CAMRA Regional Director, “With over 30 real ale breweries in Wales, we now have more breweries than we have had in 70 years. Between them these breweries produce over 180 different beers throughout the year and we will be aiming to have as many of these as possible available at the beer festival.”
The Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival is the biggest beer festival in Wales and is the showcase event for Welsh real ale breweries. During the 3 days of the Festival 10 tons of beer will be tasted by over 4000 thirsty customers.
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Local traffic warden Raymond ensures Aberdare keeps moving.
It’s five weeks until Christmas and Aberdare Town is getting busier by the day…
The ‘retail theatre’ of Aberdare Town is staged by a large cast of dedicated people.
Aberdare traders, local police and others make it all move smoothly.
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