A new venue has been found to host a popular football tournament for Torfaen school children after a fire saw the event cancelled. The tournament was due to be held at The Football Factory sports centre on 4 April, but a fire tore through the building last month.

The mum of a teenage girl who was assaulted yesterday morning (Friday 3 March 2017) in Coed Eva has appealed for witnesses.

A car overturned in the lane between Cwmbran and Fourteen Locks this morning.

This post had a great reaction on Cwmbran Life’s Facebook page. It told how year six pupils were close to missing out on the Cwmbran Shopping/ Gwent Police annual football tournament because it was due to be held at the Football Factory.

Helen Dobson is the latest entrepreneur to set up a business in Cwmbran. She has started to sell lovely scarves and handbags in the Market Village in the Cwmbran Shopping.

You can now donate Easter eggs in Cwmbran to a charity that will give them away to people who are homeless and vulnerable.

Lauleigh’s Creche in Cwmbran Shopping is now hiring cool car-style trolleys for young shoppers to relax in while their parents stroll around the shops. The creche is based upstairs in The Parade and opened in January.

The Prince of Wales will meet school children in Cwmbran on Friday 24 February. His online diary has announced that he going to Blenheim Road Community Primary School.

Our favourite supermarket worker in, 93-year-old Reg Buttress who has been working in Cwmbran Sainsury’s FOREVER (well since 1981) has been interviewed and photographed by the Sun newspaper.

Jade Rhian Rowland started selling handmade bath products online and then last year she had a stall at the Christmas Market in Cwmbran Shopping. The feedback from customers was so good it gave the Croesyceiliog resident the confidence to get a permanent stall set up in the town’s Market Village.