Banwen

Banwen Miners Point to Point will take place on Bank Holiday Monday at Llwynddu Glais; however, less than a year ago, the fences the horses negotiate lay ruined and it seemed an impossible task bearing in mind the expense and manpower involved to ...

WITH people across the world celebrating the cultural and religious festival that commemorates the death of St Patrick today, some people in Neath Port Talbot will be marking the occasion. Many people know that the legend is the patron saint of Ireland ...

COMEDIAN Colin Price has paid tribute to Cilla Black, whom he worked with on the northern club circuit in the 1970s. The Banwen funnyman, who made his name in television's The Comedians, expressed shock about the news of the entertainer's death in ...

The village of Banwen near Neath claims that St Patrick was born there. This claim is based partly on his own writing: 'I was picked a stone out of the bog. I Patrick, a sinner, a most simple countryman, the least of all the faithful and most ...

"It has been said for years he came from Banwen, and in 2004 we had a beautiful stone by the side of the road to mark this. People come from Ireland to visit it. "Academics have looked at the idea that St Patrick was born in Wales. Although you can't ...

The pair will be attending the premiere of Pride in London next week, a film set in 1984 telling the story of a group of activists decide to identify a mining village in deepest Wales — which turns out to be the Dulais Valley's Banwen — and set off ...