Deb Luxon
@debluxon.bsky.social
Senior Reporter for the Cambrian News | Freelance journo | Society of Editors Young Journo of the Year '24 Shortlist | Founding member of London Queer Writers | she/her 🌈
⛵They really pushed the boat out with this one...
No, really- I went out on a boat to see how the new £36m flood defences are causing havoc for Aberaeron's mariners.
📽️Watch and read about the councillors, residents and sailors who are baffled by Ceredigion's decisions for this scheme.
No, really- I went out on a boat to see how the new £36m flood defences are causing havoc for Aberaeron's mariners.
📽️Watch and read about the councillors, residents and sailors who are baffled by Ceredigion's decisions for this scheme.
"Very narrow escape": Aberaeron residents await strategy for closing new flood gates
If the town’s over-budget marine defences are supposed to inspire confidence, they don’t. That’s why people and sailors there are very worried, so much so they’ve even named a new harbour build-up as ...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
⛵They really pushed the boat out with this one...
No, really- I went out on a boat to see how the new £36m flood defences are causing havoc for Aberaeron's mariners.
📽️Watch and read about the councillors, residents and sailors who are baffled by Ceredigion's decisions for this scheme.
No, really- I went out on a boat to see how the new £36m flood defences are causing havoc for Aberaeron's mariners.
📽️Watch and read about the councillors, residents and sailors who are baffled by Ceredigion's decisions for this scheme.
I'm excited to announce I've joined the Local Storytelling Exchange as an Associate Storyteller.
I'll be working across mid/north Wales to tell unheard stories of extraordinary change, highlighting the people behind the green transition.
If you know a green story that needs telling, get in touch!
I'll be working across mid/north Wales to tell unheard stories of extraordinary change, highlighting the people behind the green transition.
If you know a green story that needs telling, get in touch!
Meet our team | Local Storytelling Exchange
Meet our team Meet our team Lucy Holdaway Executive Director [email protected] Lucy has spent her career in the voluntary sector in leadership roles working on conflict prevention and peaceb...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm excited to announce I've joined the Local Storytelling Exchange as an Associate Storyteller.
I'll be working across mid/north Wales to tell unheard stories of extraordinary change, highlighting the people behind the green transition.
If you know a green story that needs telling, get in touch!
I'll be working across mid/north Wales to tell unheard stories of extraordinary change, highlighting the people behind the green transition.
If you know a green story that needs telling, get in touch!
How many refugees and asylum seekers are there in Wales? The answer is - not a lot.
Local politicians I spoke to, including centre-right party Gwlad, said the issues they were most concerned with involved trying to KEEP people in the country, not trying to keep certain groups out.
Local politicians I spoke to, including centre-right party Gwlad, said the issues they were most concerned with involved trying to KEEP people in the country, not trying to keep certain groups out.
Fact-check: There are 45 asylum seekers in the whole of mid Wales
How many asylum seekers and refugees are there in mid Wales?
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
How many refugees and asylum seekers are there in Wales? The answer is - not a lot.
Local politicians I spoke to, including centre-right party Gwlad, said the issues they were most concerned with involved trying to KEEP people in the country, not trying to keep certain groups out.
Local politicians I spoke to, including centre-right party Gwlad, said the issues they were most concerned with involved trying to KEEP people in the country, not trying to keep certain groups out.
I took a look under the hood at the teething pains with mid-Wales' dental care access, and the map shows a bleak (and blank) picture.
Will a new Aberystwyth-Bangor dental school solve the problem, and can mid-Wales' teeth wait that long?
Find out that and more in my latest feature below 👇
Will a new Aberystwyth-Bangor dental school solve the problem, and can mid-Wales' teeth wait that long?
Find out that and more in my latest feature below 👇
Teething pains: Superglue, pliers and years of tears
Mid and west Wales is a dental desert so barren of practitioners that patients have given up waiting years for an appointment or have turned to crude and dangerous fixes to fix their own teeth. But wi...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I took a look under the hood at the teething pains with mid-Wales' dental care access, and the map shows a bleak (and blank) picture.
Will a new Aberystwyth-Bangor dental school solve the problem, and can mid-Wales' teeth wait that long?
Find out that and more in my latest feature below 👇
Will a new Aberystwyth-Bangor dental school solve the problem, and can mid-Wales' teeth wait that long?
Find out that and more in my latest feature below 👇
I'm honoured to be on the shortlist for News Writer of the Year at the Welsh Media Awards, sharing the list with three of the best journalists in the country.
Cambrian News is up for Welsh Newspaper of the Year AGAIN after securing the title two years ago.
Wish us luck at the awards this Jan 🤞
Cambrian News is up for Welsh Newspaper of the Year AGAIN after securing the title two years ago.
Wish us luck at the awards this Jan 🤞
Welsh Media Awards come calling for Cambrian News
For the third straight year, your Cambrian News has been nominated as the Best Weekly Newspaper in Wales. And Reporter Debbie Luxon has also been short-listed in the News Writer of the Year category.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I'm honoured to be on the shortlist for News Writer of the Year at the Welsh Media Awards, sharing the list with three of the best journalists in the country.
Cambrian News is up for Welsh Newspaper of the Year AGAIN after securing the title two years ago.
Wish us luck at the awards this Jan 🤞
Cambrian News is up for Welsh Newspaper of the Year AGAIN after securing the title two years ago.
Wish us luck at the awards this Jan 🤞
Holly got the call last week that the man she helped put behind bars is now free.
Aberystwyth serial paedophile "walks on our streets" again after 18 months in prison
A serial paedophile from Aberystwyth has been released from prison 18 months after being jailed.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Holly got the call last week that the man she helped put behind bars is now free.
“The Israeli prison guards weren’t full of joy – we were”: Find out what Hannah and I spoke about after she landed 👇
One woman's journey from New Quay to a notorious Israeli prison
Reporter Deb Luxon has been following Hannah Schafer’s movements since losing contact with her as her boat was taken by Israeli forces on 2 October. Luxon tracks her story beginning in Greenham Common...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
“The Israeli prison guards weren’t full of joy – we were”: Find out what Hannah and I spoke about after she landed 👇
Heno - tonight!!
Come down for a relaxing evening of poetry and spoken word.
Pay As You Feel tickets available OTD - 7pm for a 7.30 start.
See you soon ✨
Come down for a relaxing evening of poetry and spoken word.
Pay As You Feel tickets available OTD - 7pm for a 7.30 start.
See you soon ✨
📢Second poet announcement:
This Friday we'll be hearing from the Dyfi Valley's own Kaan K, a two-time published author who will be sharing their words (and selling their books!) at Hermit Crab. Make sure to get a ticket on the link below -
www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...
This Friday we'll be hearing from the Dyfi Valley's own Kaan K, a two-time published author who will be sharing their words (and selling their books!) at Hermit Crab. Make sure to get a ticket on the link below -
www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...
October 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Heno - tonight!!
Come down for a relaxing evening of poetry and spoken word.
Pay As You Feel tickets available OTD - 7pm for a 7.30 start.
See you soon ✨
Come down for a relaxing evening of poetry and spoken word.
Pay As You Feel tickets available OTD - 7pm for a 7.30 start.
See you soon ✨
I've been following our Welsh sailor every step of the way from the Hio sailing boat, to her abduction, imprisonment in Ketziot prison, to her arrival home at Heathrow.
I've just gotten off the phone with her from her family home in Liverpool - with a double page spread incoming... 🧵(1/2)
I've just gotten off the phone with her from her family home in Liverpool - with a double page spread incoming... 🧵(1/2)
New Quay woman welcomed home as last UK Sumud Flotilla volunteers return
The New Quay woman has been welcomed home amongst the last UK volunteers to return from the Global Sumud Flotilla.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I've been following our Welsh sailor every step of the way from the Hio sailing boat, to her abduction, imprisonment in Ketziot prison, to her arrival home at Heathrow.
I've just gotten off the phone with her from her family home in Liverpool - with a double page spread incoming... 🧵(1/2)
I've just gotten off the phone with her from her family home in Liverpool - with a double page spread incoming... 🧵(1/2)
📢Second poet announcement:
This Friday we'll be hearing from the Dyfi Valley's own Kaan K, a two-time published author who will be sharing their words (and selling their books!) at Hermit Crab. Make sure to get a ticket on the link below -
www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...
This Friday we'll be hearing from the Dyfi Valley's own Kaan K, a two-time published author who will be sharing their words (and selling their books!) at Hermit Crab. Make sure to get a ticket on the link below -
www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
📢Second poet announcement:
This Friday we'll be hearing from the Dyfi Valley's own Kaan K, a two-time published author who will be sharing their words (and selling their books!) at Hermit Crab. Make sure to get a ticket on the link below -
www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...
This Friday we'll be hearing from the Dyfi Valley's own Kaan K, a two-time published author who will be sharing their words (and selling their books!) at Hermit Crab. Make sure to get a ticket on the link below -
www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...
Today's update: Families endure silence from their loved ones, as the UK Foreign Office raises "extreme concern" over their detainment at the notorious Ketziot prison.
Relatives concern over silence from detained New Quay woman
Friends and relatives have endured over a day of silence as they await to hear from the New Quay woman detained by Israeli forces.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Today's update: Families endure silence from their loved ones, as the UK Foreign Office raises "extreme concern" over their detainment at the notorious Ketziot prison.
I was able to speak to this sailor from New Quay, Hannah Schafer, 24 hours before she was seized by Israeli forces. Read her last messages before she was taken here -
New Quay woman seized by Israeli forces aboard Sumud Flotilla
A New Quay woman has been seized by Israeli forces aboard a Sumud Flotilla boat heading to Gaza.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I was able to speak to this sailor from New Quay, Hannah Schafer, 24 hours before she was seized by Israeli forces. Read her last messages before she was taken here -
Calling Wales and poetry crew:
Me and Kaan are finally doing the inevitable - launching a poetry night.
Come down to Spitting Ink/ Poeri Inc next Friday 10 October for new voices on the open mic and two incredible feature poets.
Tickets are Pay As You Feel-
www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...
Me and Kaan are finally doing the inevitable - launching a poetry night.
Come down to Spitting Ink/ Poeri Inc next Friday 10 October for new voices on the open mic and two incredible feature poets.
Tickets are Pay As You Feel-
www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...
October 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Calling Wales and poetry crew:
Me and Kaan are finally doing the inevitable - launching a poetry night.
Come down to Spitting Ink/ Poeri Inc next Friday 10 October for new voices on the open mic and two incredible feature poets.
Tickets are Pay As You Feel-
www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...
Me and Kaan are finally doing the inevitable - launching a poetry night.
Come down to Spitting Ink/ Poeri Inc next Friday 10 October for new voices on the open mic and two incredible feature poets.
Tickets are Pay As You Feel-
www.ticketsource.co.uk/queepo/t-gan...
Did you know the first Women's Institute was founded in Anglesey in 1915 to encourage more women to get involved in growing food during WWI?
August 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Did you know the first Women's Institute was founded in Anglesey in 1915 to encourage more women to get involved in growing food during WWI?
Accessing pain and symptom relief is harder in a rural area - this is what makes an assisted dying law appealing to one interviewee I talked to... (1/2)
July 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Accessing pain and symptom relief is harder in a rural area - this is what makes an assisted dying law appealing to one interviewee I talked to... (1/2)
Yesterday I visited the beach where this man went missing. Leaving the car on a stormy February evening, he just didn't come back. The family drive from Rhayadar every week to look for signs of him, share missing posters, check homeless shelters, anything to tell them what happened to Ashley.
"We're all fearing the worst": Family of man missing in Borth continue searching
The family of a man who went missing on Ynyslas beach hoped “he would get in touch for his birthday” as they continue to search for clues to his disappearance.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Yesterday I visited the beach where this man went missing. Leaving the car on a stormy February evening, he just didn't come back. The family drive from Rhayadar every week to look for signs of him, share missing posters, check homeless shelters, anything to tell them what happened to Ashley.
🐣Yes, I got to visit baby seagulls for this piece and yes, some days I love my job.
Read/ watch the video about the one woman single-handedly trying to save mid-Wales' poorly seagulls 👇
Read/ watch the video about the one woman single-handedly trying to save mid-Wales' poorly seagulls 👇
Meet the woman rescuing mid-Wales' poorly seagull chicks from her back garden
One woman has taken it upon herself to rescue and rear mid-Wales’ poorly seagull chicks.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🐣Yes, I got to visit baby seagulls for this piece and yes, some days I love my job.
Read/ watch the video about the one woman single-handedly trying to save mid-Wales' poorly seagulls 👇
Read/ watch the video about the one woman single-handedly trying to save mid-Wales' poorly seagulls 👇
🐱It's a hard job but someone's got to do it 📖
Puss in books? Meet Tebot - the cat running Aberystwyth Library on a tight paw
Every day for the last five or so years a fluffy creature has greeted librarians of Ceredigion Library in Aberystwyth.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🐱It's a hard job but someone's got to do it 📖
It's telling the number of people who didn't want me to write this story - the comments on the Cambrian News FB post show it's ruffled some feathers.
Read my exposé on an eternal bar contract the council can't get out of and a guy paying exclusive mates rates for use of a community-owned asset 👇
Read my exposé on an eternal bar contract the council can't get out of and a guy paying exclusive mates rates for use of a community-owned asset 👇
Mach can’t call time on council bar contract
For the past 15 years, the town council has been locked into a deal with a single pub licensee to run the bar at Y Plas. Only he can change the contract that lasts ‘in perpetuity’ and pays the town a ...
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June 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's telling the number of people who didn't want me to write this story - the comments on the Cambrian News FB post show it's ruffled some feathers.
Read my exposé on an eternal bar contract the council can't get out of and a guy paying exclusive mates rates for use of a community-owned asset 👇
Read my exposé on an eternal bar contract the council can't get out of and a guy paying exclusive mates rates for use of a community-owned asset 👇
📖When was the last time you spent money in an independent bookshop?
Meet the booksellers thriving despite or maybe precisely because of their rural locations, in my feature for National Independent Bookshop Week 👇
#independentbookshopweek
Meet the booksellers thriving despite or maybe precisely because of their rural locations, in my feature for National Independent Bookshop Week 👇
#independentbookshopweek
Swapping ear tags for ISBNs: Meet rural Wales' bookshop owners where "quirky" sells
Running a small business anywhere comes with its difficulties - but with books becoming increasingly digitised and irregular footfall making year-long business difficult in rural mid-Wales, bookseller...
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📖When was the last time you spent money in an independent bookshop?
Meet the booksellers thriving despite or maybe precisely because of their rural locations, in my feature for National Independent Bookshop Week 👇
#independentbookshopweek
Meet the booksellers thriving despite or maybe precisely because of their rural locations, in my feature for National Independent Bookshop Week 👇
#independentbookshopweek
🌷This is a lovely story about a couple who restored a piece of unloved, low-performing farmland into a wetland bog, a broadleaf woodland and wild flower meadows that rare native orchids call home.🌾The 25 acres are yours to explore as one of only three pitches allowed on the site at any one time.
Meet the couple behind the new private nature reserve you can glamp in
Many people now look for eco-friendly holidays, but how about camping on a private nature reserve?
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
June 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🌷This is a lovely story about a couple who restored a piece of unloved, low-performing farmland into a wetland bog, a broadleaf woodland and wild flower meadows that rare native orchids call home.🌾The 25 acres are yours to explore as one of only three pitches allowed on the site at any one time.
👀Is it a pro or a con to live in a small village whilst losing your sight? I spoke to people experiencing just that to find out 👇
Losing your sight in rural Eryri - and the "lifeline" group that helps
The experience of sight loss can be a “horrifying” thing - from hallucinations to losing licences, sight impairment is a trial, no matter where you live.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
👀Is it a pro or a con to live in a small village whilst losing your sight? I spoke to people experiencing just that to find out 👇
EXCLUSIVE: Being trusted to tell someone’s story accurately and sensitively is a huge responsibility and honour, especially when they trust you to the point of waiving their lifelong legal right to anonymity to share their story and get justice. 🧵1/3
[Holly's story out today 👇]
[Holly's story out today 👇]
CPS apology "not good enough" says child sex abuse victim of Aber serial paedophile
The historic victim of an Aberystwyth serial paedophile has waived her right to lifelong anonymity to condemn the CPS’ decision not to charge her abuser in 1997, leaving others to become victims - DEB...
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June 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Being trusted to tell someone’s story accurately and sensitively is a huge responsibility and honour, especially when they trust you to the point of waiving their lifelong legal right to anonymity to share their story and get justice. 🧵1/3
[Holly's story out today 👇]
[Holly's story out today 👇]
I've been a bit MIA on here but here's why 👇
The wonderful, small, talented poetry group I'm a part of in Mach, QUEEPO (the Machynlleth Queer Poetry Collective) was booked for not one but TWO gigs in the last month. Here are some handsome snaps of us closing Friday of the #AberystwythPoetryFestival
The wonderful, small, talented poetry group I'm a part of in Mach, QUEEPO (the Machynlleth Queer Poetry Collective) was booked for not one but TWO gigs in the last month. Here are some handsome snaps of us closing Friday of the #AberystwythPoetryFestival
June 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I've been a bit MIA on here but here's why 👇
The wonderful, small, talented poetry group I'm a part of in Mach, QUEEPO (the Machynlleth Queer Poetry Collective) was booked for not one but TWO gigs in the last month. Here are some handsome snaps of us closing Friday of the #AberystwythPoetryFestival
The wonderful, small, talented poetry group I'm a part of in Mach, QUEEPO (the Machynlleth Queer Poetry Collective) was booked for not one but TWO gigs in the last month. Here are some handsome snaps of us closing Friday of the #AberystwythPoetryFestival
🌈At the second-ever Machynlleth LGBTQ+ Pride, love was well and truly in the air. It's both fun and difficult to write about the community you're part of - it's hard to capture just how wonderful a community Machynlleth truly is. See if you can spot the magic in the video on the link below 👇
Hundreds attend Machynlleth LGBTQ+ Pride as "vital" celebration of rural LGBTQ+ life
The First Minister was spotted attending Machynlleth’s second-ever LGBTQ+ Pride, as attendees describe it as a “vital” celebration of rural LGBTQ+ life, writes Debbie Luxon.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🌈At the second-ever Machynlleth LGBTQ+ Pride, love was well and truly in the air. It's both fun and difficult to write about the community you're part of - it's hard to capture just how wonderful a community Machynlleth truly is. See if you can spot the magic in the video on the link below 👇