My Rhondda News

[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…

[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…

[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…

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[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…

[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…

[xyz-ihs snippet=”AdFloating”] [xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] A Rhondda Fancy dress shop based in Porth is to close with the loss of 3 jobs due to the rise of the so called “Killer Clown Craze” sweeping the nation. The Wizard’s Sleeve fancy dress shop in Hannah Street, Porth, has been left with thousands…

[xyz-ihs snippet=”AdFloating”] [xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] A Rhondda man has been injured by a falling sheep as he left The Pont Newydd Medical Centre in Porth. Hayden Shepherd of Rickards Street, Porth, was leaving the medical centre following a routine blood test when he was hit on the head by a falling sheep. The sheep was…

[xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] A lorry driver who was transporting a turbine for the Wind Farm through the Rhondda today, decided when he got to Ton Pentre that enough was enough and has refused to go any further. The turbines were being transported in a northerly direction heading towards the wind farm…

[xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense2″] As we all know, the position of the Earth in space causes shortening of daylight hours in winter for the northern hemisphere, and as we also know this happens every single year. But that hasn’t stopped one factory worker from Treorchy feeling the need to tell every single one…