Cwmbran-based youth project Randomz has won the Outstanding Project Promoting Entrepreneurship Award at this year’s Youth Work Excellence Awards. Randomz is a Skills, Education, Training and Enterprise Academy run by The Cwmbran Centre for Young People which helps young people gain employment or create their own enterprise business.

Live life on the wild side this month and enjoy the wonderful, world of Welsh nature right on your doorstep! Running throughout June, The Wildlife Trust’s 30 Days Wild challenge aims to encourage people to commit Random Acts of Wildness, by simply making daily connections with the nature around them.

A stag party in Cwmbran arrived at their local pub today in a pretty unusual way.  The groom-to-be was in a fox outfit and he was chased to the Dorallt by his mates dressed as dogs and the hunting party.

Staff at Bowlplex in Cwmbran celebrated their £250,000 refurbishment and relaunch as Hollywood Bowl with an opening night last Thursday.

A rugby league player from Cwmbran will travel to Australia this summer to play in the Student World Cup. Jarad Hinnem, 31, from Cwmbran, in his second year of a BSc Pharmaceutical Sciences degree at the University of South Wales.

  A Cwmbran-based transport company which branched out into overnight pallets for the first time in 2007 is toasting ten years of successful growth over the past decade.

Walkers on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal are worried about a duck who has got some plastic litter wrapped around its head. The duck was spotted on the stretch of canal from Five Locks in Pontnewydd to Sebastopol.

Natasha Morgan has started her own business after being out of work for nine years and lacking self-confidence.  Chrysalis was set up with advice from Torfaen Council’s Communities First team and funding from her own pocket and her parents.

  Businesses in Cwmbran have been showing their support for World Autism Awareness Week 2017. Cwmbran High School hosts a support base for pupils with autism and they have been leading the campaign.

In September 2016, Welsh student Megan Chard made a decision many 19-year-olds would shy away from, she started a new career – cycling. The former Croesyceiliog School pupil’s ambition is to spend the majority of next season in Belgium and other countries on the continent, racing against top cyclists.