Category: Rhondda News

  • Rhondda Businesses Ready For Annual Budget Spending Windfall

    Rhondda Businesses Ready For Annual Budget Spending Windfall

    [xyz-ihs snippet=”AdFloating”] [xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] Shops and businesses around the Rhondda are rubbing their hands with glee as their most lucrative time of the year approaches. As the fiscal year end draws near, local authorities, utilities companies and schools once again are faced with the age old problem of what to…

  • Rhondda People Use Old Snow Photos From 1982 To Fool Their Bosses Into Letting Them Have Time Off Work

    Rhondda People Use Old Snow Photos From 1982 To Fool Their Bosses Into Letting Them Have Time Off Work

    Following an night of nothing more than a light dusting of snow, many Rhondda folk are flooding social media with old photos showing scenes of heavy snow fall from 1982, and claiming the photos were from today. The scam was dreamt up by a man from Ferndale who fancied a…

  • Council To Trial On The Spot Fines For People Who Go Shopping Without A Used Carrier Bag

    Council To Trial On The Spot Fines For People Who Go Shopping Without A Used Carrier Bag

      Recent media reports have told how the council are planning to bring in a law which will require dog walkers to carry poo bags with them at all times, or face a £75 on the spot fine. But the powers to be are not stopping there. Wales First Following…

  • Suspicious Driver Apprehended by Police For Following Rhondda Bus

    Suspicious Driver Apprehended by Police For Following Rhondda Bus

    [xyz-ihs snippet=”AdFloating”] [xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] A man from Tylorstown is helping police with their enquiries tonight, after his suspicious behavior was reported by a quick thinking Rhondda bus driver. Dale Turner, who drives one of Stagecoach’s new Fango Dango WiFi Gold 132 buses, noticed the same car had been following his bus…

  • Rhondda Volcano Set For Fireworks

    Rhondda Volcano Set For Fireworks

    [xyz-ihs snippet=”AdFloating”] [xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] One of the Rhondda’s most prominent land marks known locally as Old Smokey is set for fireworks once again, as the once dormant volcano shows signs of coming to life. Smoke was witnessed rising from Old Smokey earlier this week, making Tylorstown and Staleytown residents very…

  • Kodi Boxes Ruining Rhondda Broadband

    Kodi Boxes Ruining Rhondda Broadband

    [xyz-ihs snippet=”AdFloating”] [xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] Towns in the Rhondda were once likened to the Satellite City that featured in Boyd Clack’s Sitcom of the same name, with every house sporting a Satellite Dish. But now those same satellite dishes are redundant as local people shun Sky TV and watch all the latest…

  • Rhondda Man sells Five Pound Note for £843

    Rhondda Man sells Five Pound Note for £843

    [xyz-ihs snippet=”AdFloating”] [xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] A man from the Rhondda has sold a new five pound note on eBay for a whopping £843. Phillip Gill from Maerdy decided to jump on the bandwagon and try to sell five pound notes on eBay, just like everybody else is these days, and came…

  • Black Friday Super Offer

    Black Friday Super Offer

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  • Anger As Traffic Cones Placed Outside Tylorstown Houses To Stop Parking Have Been Stolen

    Anger As Traffic Cones Placed Outside Tylorstown Houses To Stop Parking Have Been Stolen

    [xyz-ihs snippet=”AdFloating”] [xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] A man from Tylorstown is due to appear in court next week charged with stealing over five hundred traffic cones from around the Rhondda. Colin Thickpenny aged 38, of Penrhys Road, had been stealing traffic cones from in front of his neighbours’ houses that had been placed there to…

  • Police Called to Penrhys to Breakup Firework Kerfuffle

    Police Called to Penrhys to Breakup Firework Kerfuffle

    [xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] Police were called to the top of Penrhys hill earlier this evening, to break up a fight between Llwynypia residents and cheapskate skinflints who watch other people’s fireworks from the hilltop overlooking Llwynypia and Ystrad (Rhondda). Clive Clifton from Llwynypia was incensed after he noticed twenty or more people…