Emma and Mike set up Plump Cakes Retro Tearoom in July 2022. Cwmbran Life is putting the spotlight on independent businesses in and around the area. Covid has been a challenge for businesses so this is a chance to think about where you spend your money. 

Garden waste will not be collected from houses in Torfaen from Monday 29 August until Friday 9 September.

Fast food giant Burger King is opening a branch in Cwmbran town centre.

A Plaid Cymru MS has called on unpaid carers to take advantage of a £500 payment before the scheme closes in September.

RSPCA branches across Wales have joined together to form a national food bank

Thirty-six adults in Torfaen who sat GCSE exams in maths and English this year picked up their results today.

In May 2015 planning permission was given for Llantarnam Comprehensive School to be demolished and 226 homes to be built on the site. In the same year Llantarnam leisure centre closed when Llantarnam and Fairwater schools merged to form Cwmbran High School (on the site of Fairwater Comprehensive School).

Nine retailers have reaffirmed their commitment to the Cwmbran Centre by renewing their leases, the owner has announced.

The 1st Pontnewydd Scouts group in Cwmbran started in 1910. Their Facebook page says this makes them the oldest group in Torfaen.

Ten families who have bought new homes on the Edlogan Wharf estate in between Cwmbran and Sebastopol are still waiting to move in because the developer has an “ongoing legal matter” on a “specific parcel of land” at the site.