Several boxes of items knitted by staff and parents at Croesyceiliog School are heading to Poland to help Ukraine refugees.

A planning application has been submitted for a shepherd’s hut on land in Henllys to help ‘encourage visitors to the area.’

Councillors at Croesyceiliog and Llanyrafon Community Council have approved grants for 54 organisations.

GARDEN waste collections in Torfaen are to be extended until December as a “goodwill gesture” after the service was suspended at the end of August.

Residents on a new Cwmbran estate have asked Torfaen Council to become responsible for the recreation areas by their homes as they are unhappy paying £140 a year to a management company.

Torfaen Council has become the first organisation in Wales to be granted Carer Friendly Employer Accreditation by the Care Collective.

Two primary schools in Cwmbran have become the first in Torfaen to launch new active travel school plans

Visitors to Greenmeadow Community Farm have been shown artist’s impressions of the £1.7m transformation that will take place over the coming months.

A tattoo artist from Cwmbran is used to spending hours with a needle painstakingly drawing on her customers’ bodies.

The organiser of the Poppy Appeal in Cwmbran has appealed for volunteers to sell poppies.