South Wales Police are appealing for information following a robbery which occurred at around 7.30am on Monday (29th August) on a footpath which runs alongside the perimeter fence of Prince Charles Hospital.A 40 year old woman was walking along the path when she was approached from the rear by an unknown man who pulled her…
The recent European Union referendum has brought out the very worst in our society intensifying existing racist tendencies in some and spreading misinformation and an air of distrust in our communities. Our elected representatives and community leaders should be trying to unite people in these circumstances and not spread any more rumours. I was dismayed,…
Have you ever thought of standing for Council? Every day facebook, twitter, the local pub, is full of people complaining that the Council doesn't listen, that Councillors are not doing a good job, etc. Yet the same old faces under the same Labour red flag keep getting voted back in. And this will carry on…
A strategic roundabout in Aberdare has benefitted from over £100,000 investment which will now help ease congestion on a busy Cynon Valley gyratory. Thanks to Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s multi-million-pound (£23m) Highways, Transportation, Infrastructure and Strategic Projects (HTISP) Investment Programme, road users in Aberdare will now reap the benefits of work that began earlier this month on the north…
Lido Ponty, the National Lido of Wales, has welcomed its 90,000th visitor since opening exactly a year ago this Bank Holiday weekend. Charlotte Hammett, of Campbell Terrace, Caegarw, Mountain Ash, is the 90,000th visitor, much to the delight of her accompanying family. Charlotte had been along to Lido Ponty on a few occasions this season and was…
A FREE Park and Ride service will be in place for the Stage 5 start of the Tour of Britain in Aberdare on Thursday, September 8. Thousands of people are expected to be at Aberdare Park for the 10.45am start, with all the build-up getting underway from around 9am. There will be NO PARKING inside the grounds of Aberdare…
As the Open Spaces Society local correspondent, I went to look at a footpath in Tyntetown, north of Abercynon. Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC is considering extinguishing the path which seems to have been ignored when the Bryntirion estate was built over half a century ago. Full storey on link https://ossjay.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/should-this-be-a-footpath-abercynon-3-gets-a-visit/ https://ossjay.wordpress.com/
A strategic roundabout in Aberdare has benefitted from over £100,000 investment which will now help ease congestion on a busy Cynon Valley gyratory. Thanks to Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s multi-million-pound (£23m) Highways, Transportation, Infrastructure and Strategic Projects (HTISP) Investment Programme, road users in Aberdare will now reap the benefits of work that began earlier this month on the north…
Work is set to begin on a popular and well-used public right of way linking Aberaman and Cwmbach. These works will reduce instances of flooding and help make the route available for community use in all but the more extreme weather events. Rhondda Cynon Taf Council will begin work on the public right of way…
On a whistle stop tour of South Wales, Eve Conway, president of Rotary International for Britain and Ireland 2016/17 visited the Macmillan Unit garden at Prince Charles Hospital on July 29th. She was accompanied by Steve Jenkins, Rotary District Governor for South Wales. On walking around the garden, Eve said: “This garden represents the…
