A colourful local character will be remembered tomorrow, as friends and family gather at Margam Crematorium in honour of Eric Blood, of Devonshire Place, Port Talbot, who died last week, aged 82, following a brain haemorrhage. Here, his friends Salay Rahman and Steffan ap Dafydd share their memories of Eric, and tell the story...
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PORT Talbot-born comedian Bennett Arron will be returning to his home town next week – on television. Award-winning Bennett, the only Jewish/Welsh performer on the comedy circuit, strutted his stuff at Blancos back in March, in a special one-off show that was filmed for TV, and the result – the first of four 30-minute...
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A GROWING Port Talbot business has won the Queen’s Award for International Trade. Staff from Energy and Power work around the world helping to design, install and maintain key installations for high-tech energy industries. Their specialist work as independent technical management experts for the energy, utilities and capital industries markets has taken them from...
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“PROOF that Port Talbot can put on West End musicals” – so said a very proud mayor of Port Talbot, Harry Bebell, after Tuesday’s performance of The Music Man by Port Talbot Operatic Society at the Princess Royal Theatre. The story, by Meredith Wilson, is that of a lovable rogue and con man, played brilliantly...
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ABOUT 150 people attended a special book signing by author Owen Sheers for The Gospel of Us at Port Talbot library in the Aberafan Shopping Centre on Saturday. Paul Doyle, reader development worker for Neath Port Talbot libraries, introduced a reading by Mr Sheers which was followed by a question and answer session, and a book...
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“LIKE being part of some kind of natural disaster, but in a really good way” – that’s how Michael Sheen has described last year’s production of The Passion. In a statement released today to confirm details of an anniversary exhibition to commemorate The Passion, Sheen said the community had come together during the epic-three...
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Here at MagNet Towers, we occasionally get the odd flash of brilliance, even if we do say so ourselves. And contacting rising TV comedian Lloyd Langford, a Baglan boy made slightly-well-known by his appearances on the BBC comedy panel show Ask Rhod Gilbert, seemed to be one of those brilliant moments. We thought maybe...
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PORT Talbot-born comedian Bennett Arron is returning to his home town on Thursday for a one-off night of laughter. Award-winning Bennett, the only Jewish/Welsh performer on the comedy circuit, will be strutting his stuff at Blancos on Thursday, March 15, in a show that will be filmed for television. The fun starts at 7.30pm,...
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BARRY Kirk – or Captain Beany as he’s better known – has confirmed he will run as an independent candidate in May’s local elections in what will be his 21st political campaign. Charity fundraiser Captain Beany (right), will stand as an independent candidate in the local elections in May. Photo: Rachel Howells “There’s a...
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FRIENDS and colleagues have been paying tribute to Port Talbot blues guitarist and singer-songwriter Mike Japp, who has died of cancer at the age of 59. “Mike was a great guy,” said Ray “Taff” Williams, of Gary and Taff fame. “He was a very good guitar player, a nice singer and a fine songwriter....
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