Unemployed volunteers have been helping with the second stage of the plans that residents at Woodland Court in Cwmbran have to transform their garden.

Cwmbran Shopping is calling upon musicians, magicians and dancers to enter its ‘Busker Bonanza’ competition, set up to celebrate the variety of street performance skills and creativity in the community.

Llanyrafon Manor is going back in time to World War Two this weekend (Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June). The Cwmbran landmark was home to the Land Girls during the war and is the venue for two days of music, food, memorabilia and memories from that period.

The Welsh Musical Theatre Orchestra will be visiting the Congress Theatre on Sunday 14 June as part of their Spring Tour ‘Shows and Soundtracks’.

Welsh football international Danny Gabbidon is helping to raise money for a former Cwmbran teacher who suffered a double stroke.

The only way to find out what the new climbing wall at Cwmbran Stadium was really like was to attach a GoPro camera to my daughter’s head and send her on a one-hour session. This video clip was the result.

Corporal Michael Thacker was killed in Afghanistan in 2012. Two of his mates are organising a rugby match in his memory and to raise money for Scotty’s Little Soliders– a charity that helps children who have lost a parent while serving in the British Armed Forces.

My daughter is nine-years old and has never known a world without wifi. The first thing she asked after we booked a holiday to Portugal last year was “does the hotel have wifi?”

Readers of Cwmbran Life were asked to come up with questions for candidates standing for Torfaen. Around 40 questions were submitted on the Facebook page.