Tim Butters

FROM ‘Beowulf’ to ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘Game of Thrones,’ tales of scaly, fire-breathing monsters that fly and hoard gold have intrigued and enchanted us for centuries.

AFTER the storm comes the calm and after the flood comes the relief.

FiIRST came the fire and then the flood. Abergavenny has been hit by another elemental disaster in the space of two weeks.

THE full extent of the Castle Meadows flooding has been captured from the skies courtesy of some drone footage supplied by Chronicle reader Charlie Newman.

AN Abergavenny man who claims he saved the world while no-one was watching, insists he doesn’t want acclaim for his “boss moves” but would like everyone to know how close they all came to an extinction-level event on his watch.

ABERGAVENNY awoke this morning forever changed after a raging fire caused untold damage to a historic part of town.

THE aftermath of the fire that has destroyed a historic part of Abergavenny has been captured from a bird’s eye perspective by a local resident.

IN a world riddled with grim prophecies that a fascist will move into the White House and the end is nigh, an Abergavenny man has warned that it is leprechauns and not President-elect Donald Trump who poses the real threat to life, liberty, and “the freedom to act like a dick-head on social media.”

THE past can be a pretty colourful place, and thanks to technology it can also be made as radiant as a rainbow and as dazzling as a sweltering summer's day, as these old pics of Bailey Park's swimming pool restored from their original black and white poignantly prove.

AN Abergavenny man has warned the public to be vigilant and on guard against “anyone who contacts them out of the blue pretending to be a minor deity or mythical being” after he claims he had the wool pulled over his eyes by someone calling themselves “the triple goddess.”