Volunteers held an event in Oakfield Gardens today for residents to swap seeds and plants to encourage them into gardening and growing food at home.

A section of Cwmbran Drive will have a temporary 30mph speed limit so construction traffic can safely get in and out of the site where they are building a new school.

A FORMER children’s play area could be transformed into a sensory garden and community allotment, which could grow food for a local foodbank.

Greenmeadow Community Farm will reopen in the summer but visitors expecting to see the site transformed following a £1.7m investment will have to wait a bit longer after the council announced the plan was delayed.

A Cwmbran dog has made his sixth donation to the Pet Blood Bank UK.

A FORMER hair and beauty parlour in Cwmbran Centre is to be used as a nail salon.

A new Torfaen Council officer has started work to tackle litter and fly-tipping in the borough.

A PROTECTED tree could be removed from a street in Cwmbran as its roots have uprooted the pavement.

ADVICE sessions for householders suffering problems with damp and mould are to be held across Torfaen.

A BID to build a house in the ‘green wedge’ between Cwmbran and Newport has been refused by planners.