An incredible £2,260 has been raised in just one day to go towards a £5,000 wheelchair for a Cwmbran teenager who is having her leg amputated above the knee tomorrow.

Six pupils at Coed Eva Primary School are helping to make the school a better place by challenging teachers and suggesting ways it can improve. Most schools have a School Council who organise events and share the views of pupils with staff.

  My inbox receives occasional invites to events and if I’m free and have time around my day job I always try to say ‘yes’. The invite to the Fairwater High School awards evening at the Parkway Hotel caught my attention as I left as a pupil in 1995.

Think of all the electronic things in your home that are programmed by a computer. There are many gadgets and everyday things that you rely on. Its thanks to coding that they do the things you want.

The pit is where the orchestra perform during a musical. A pit? It doesn’t sound like the nicest place to be asked to sit. These talented musicians even get get tucked away on a lower part of the stage.

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.