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Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water will carry out essential work to divert the water main at River Street in Treforest on behalf of Rhondda Cynon Taf Council – using a road closure and temporary bus arrangements over the Easter holiday to minimise disruption. The work will take place between 7 River Street and the junction of […]

With the Office for Budget Responsibility stating that 2022-2023 will see the biggest fall in living standards in the UK since records began and as the National Insurance rise and the energy price cap lift push people further into hardship, Minister for Social Justice, Jane Hutt and Minister for Finance and Local Government, Rebecca Evans, […]

A retired headteacher from Rhondda Cynon Taf is back in the classroom studying IT computer technology and is amazing her classmates – at the age of 100!  Margaret Eurfron Griffiths, of Ynyshir, Rhondda, enrolled for the weekly classes at Porth Plaza, run by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council, in a bid to keep her mind active […]

Urgent medical and health advice is now available across Wales 24 hours a day, seven days a week following the successful rollout of the 111 helpline. The service, which is run by the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust, and can be accessed online at 111.wales.nhs.uk or by telephone by calling 111, will give people up-to-date […]

The Welsh Government’s not-for-profit transport delivery partner finds itself one step closer in creating its vision of a one-stop-shop customer services powerhouse for the people of Wales. Building on the success of the popular Traveline Cymru service, the company that owns it, PTI Cymru has joined the Transport for Wales (TfW) organisation in a deal […]

Parents are being urged not to give their children certain Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs due to the possible presence of salmonella. The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) said the eggs have a “potential link to a salmonella outbreak” where 57 cases have been found, with just over three quarters of those being children aged five […]

Wales – ranked third in the world for domestic recycling – has joined forces with other UK nations to introduce new ‘polluter pays’ rules to make businesses which place packaged goods onto the market pay for their waste to be recycled.   But Wales, alongside Scotland, is going one step further by committing to ensuring […]

Interlink RCT is running a competition to find community groups or organisations that have gone above and beyond in the pandemic for RCT. The nominee with the most votes will receive £1000, with second place taking £500 and third getting £250. Winners will also be featured in promotional activity in Volunteers Week in the first […]

The Education Minister, Jeremy Miles, has praised the work of early years settings as they prepare to support the roll out of the new Curriculum for Wales. At a visit to Llandogo Early Years day nursery in Monmouthshire, the Minister met early years practitioners who have worked with the Welsh Government to develop a curriculum […]

“For more than 70 years we have made it easy to travel by car and harder to travel by public transport – that has to change.” Those were the words of Deputy Climate Change Minister, Lee Waters as he unveiled plans to bring forward legislation to change the way bus services are delivered across Wales. […]