Fairwater Runners are the organisers of the quirky road race called the Rack Raid. The 100 mile team relay started at Grosmont Castle at 7.30am on Sunday and finished at the Castell Y Bwch pub at around 7pm last night.

An author has written a book about what life was like during Victorian times in Cwmbran

A Cwmbran teacher has died just five weeks after his fourth child was born.

Sian Price left work last Thursday to find the flash floods had caused a nearby culvert to flood her home on Two Locks Road. She estimates the clear-up will take a couple of months and until then her three children have to live with her parents.

Locals had a fantastic fun afternoon and evening at the Halfway pub yesterday to raise money for a meningitis charity.

A bride caused a stir among shoppers and staff in Cwmbran Asda tonight as she walked through the store in her wedding dress.

The mum of Shae Button, the three year-old Cwmbran boy who died from meningitis in April, has been sent a letter asking her to remove the toys placed around his memorial at Llwyncelyn Cemetery in Hollybush.

Cwmbran Life has often highlighted the problem of people using the area around recycling banks as a place to dump their household rubbish instead of visiting the tip or using their black bin.