However, Labour's council cabinet member, Alana Davies, lost her seat (Porthcawl East) to an Independent candidate.
The Elvis Festival runs every September, attracts Elvis tribute artists and devotees from across the world, and is the biggest gathering of Elvis fans in Europe.
Robert Wilfort is a British actor from Porthcawl, who has had many notable guest appearances on British television, including Rose and Maloney, "MI High" and Coronation Street.
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The film parallels the duo's lives approaching their twenties when growing up together in Porthcawl, a small coastal resort in South Wales.
In July 1964, he defended his titles against Johnny Cook, at Porthcawl, and won by a technical knockout in the fifth round.
The community has several public footpaths and cycling routes which pass through the park following the line of the old Dyffryn, Llynfi and Porthcawl railway which linked the ironworks to the coast.
In July 1863 Brogdens obtained an Act of Parliament to build a new standard gauge railway in the Ogmore Valley and to lay a third rail on the existing broad gauge Lynfi Railway to Porthcawl.