Councillors today approved a £1.7m investment to transform Greenmeadow Community Farm into a ‘premier visitor destination for families in Gwent’

Two minutes after arriving in the cafe at  Aspris College a 16-year-old student was making me a lovely cup of coffee for the bargain price of 70p.

TORFAEN council is on course for an underspend of around half a million pounds this financial year but its cabinet has been warned rising inflation could hit its finances. 

Figures given to the Welsh Conservatives following a Freedom of Information query show the average wait for people on Torfaen’s Homeseeker register to get a home in 2021 was 18 months.

Royal Mail workers in Cwmbran continued their 48-hour strike in Cwmbran today. They gathered outside the former post office in General Rees Square for the second day.

Royal Mail workers from Cwmbran joined in the start of a national 48-hour strike this morning. They met outside the former post office in General Rees Square.

Councillors will decide next week if plans should be developed to build a new £1m 3G sports pitch, floodlights, changing room and access road on the former playing fields in Llantarnam.

Torfaen councillors are being asked to invest £1.7million to transform Greenmeadow Community Farm into one of the ‘premier visitor destinations for families in Gwent’.

Torfaen councillors will be asked to stop plans to build a solar farm in Cwmbran because changes to the project by the contractor could lead to it making a loss.

A Cwmbran cyclist has appealed for witnesses or dash cam footage after his bike was hit by a car and the driver didn’t stop.