Gwent News

Sometimes, when you have your nose firmly stuck to the grindstone, you can forget to look up and acknowledge what is going on in your community.

Aims:

To provide support and encouragement to Torfaen's leading talented and elite sports performers, by offering free access (at designated off-peak times) to leisure and sports facilities for personal training and development.

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Is public speaking something that terrifies you? Does the idea of speaking in front of others turn your knees to jelly? Then you need the magic of Voice of Wales, the only Toastmasters International Club in Wales. Forget red coats and "My Lords Ladies and Gentlemen", Toastmasters is a huge organisation devoted to developing speaking and leadership skills.

The term "Mid life Crisis" is a bit clichéd, but there does seem to be a point in life when "what" and "why" become huge, unanswerable questions.

This is exactly what happened to a Chepstow mum, Shelley Kirkup. She was working very long, stressful hours as a Company Accountant in the motor trade industry and was away from her family much more than she wanted.

A cough lozenge, based on a recipe created over 100 years ago to help Welsh sheep farmers on the Isle of Anglesey banish symptoms of coughs and colds, recently played a silent role at a Good Housekeeping Concert.

The Concert was held at the Grosvenor Chapel Mayfair in December 2009, and all the performers were given a supply of Allens Cough Lozenges to make sure their performances were cough-free.