Aberdare Blog

Aberdare Assembly Member at Remembrance Parade

Aberdare’s Assembly Member, Christine Chapman AM, pays her respect at the Aberdare Cenotaph memorial on the recent Remembrance Parade Sunday in Aberdare.

Photographs courtesy of John Rees Photography (Aberdare) - Full Set of Parade Photos Available to Buy

Blog this Way to Welsh Assembly Gig

Nice peoples the Bevan Massive Crew is havin a Blogging Gig in Cardiff Bay.

It be happenin soon.

DJ Peter Black be there.

Boom boom, shake the room.

He big nice tie man, wear me shades.

Vicky W of the Bevan Massive Crew be there.

Betsan Bloop be there. She be be be by the sea woman.

Tea be there…. “re fresh ments provided”.

You be there ?

Recovery Manual for Rhydfelen

There is no ‘Recovery Manual for Rhydfelen’ to help former pupils who were victimised at the school.

We patiently piece together the truth of our own personal histories.

We write our own recovery manuals, each and every one of us in our own quiet way.

I am not a tourist flitting from classroom to classroom, job to job, relationship to relationship, pill to pill, glass to glass.

It has been four years since the publication of the Clywch Report.

Click Here to Read the Full Article Here

Hirwaun Village Fights Back… Again

A Public Meeting will be held in Aberdare on Thursday 9th October 2008, at the Sobells Sports Centre.

At the Meeting Rhondda Cynon Taf Councillors will decide on the new Gloucesters & Ironworks site planning application.

All Welcome.

A Planning Application has been re-submitted to the local Council. The plans are for 130 houses to be built on the Hirwaun Gloucesters and old Ironworks site. This area is much valued and used by the community as an area for recreation and leisure and home to an abundance of wildlife and flora.

Councillors voted to refuse planning permission in July 2008.

Local Council Planning Officers are trying to persuade Councillors to change their minds and approve this application, despite overwhelming objections from residents over the last 3 years.

The people of Hirwaun are not opposed to building new houses.

They are opposed to inappropriate overdevelopment at the expense of the whole community.

Hoo-bloody-rah! for Hirwaun people fighting for their own Community.

Mumbo Jumbo Cult Claims Merthyr AM

It is with considerable sadness we announce that Huw Lewis AM has joined the Mumbo Jumbo Cult.

On 3rd July 2008, he announced on his blog that he has “joined the revolution”. This is a common phrase chanted by new Cult Members as they ritually affirm that they belong to their new ‘family’.

The Mumbo Jumbo Cult has swept through the Welsh political landscape claiming many other Assembly Member casualties.

Symptoms of Cult Membership include excessive use of brand names and imagery in a not-very-subtle attempt to recruit more people to the Mumbo Jumbo ’cause’.

Huw Lewis History

• On July 18th 2007, Huw Lewis was sacked as Deputy Minister for Transport and the Economy. Two months later he published his Winning for Wales pamphlet on the future of the Labour Party in Wales.
• Huw Lewis forewarned that in 2011, the Welsh Labour Party will face its biggest challenge.
• He claimed in Winning for Wales (pg. 11) “the only way to successfully combat these challenges is to create a self-sufficient genuinely Welsh Labour Party which can properly shape this next exciting phase of devolution.“
• Today, eleven months later, Huw Lewis joins the Mumbo Jumbo Cult performing a public volte-face and completely ignoring his own advice. It’s goodbye to those ideas of a “self-sufficient” and a “genuinely Welsh Labour Party”…