A thousand children from 36 schools across South Wales have volunteered to sing in a musical extravaganza at the Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, supported by a host of celebrity acts and professional musicians. Two schools in Aberdare will be taking part in the concert on 15th July 2019. Aberdare Park Primary School and Cwmbach Church in Wales…
Statistics out today by the End Child Poverty coalition show that 206,173 children in Wales were in poverty in 2018, or 29.3% of Wales’ child population and a 1% increase on the previous year after housing costs are taken into account. The powers to change child poverty levels in Wales sit with both Welsh Government…
Commenting on the shameful news that Wales was the only nation to see an increase in child poverty last year, Shadow Minister for Social Care, Children and Young People, Janet Finch-Saunders, said: “This shocking news sadly just confirms what Welsh Conservatives have been saying for a long time, that the Welsh Government is failing again…
Wales is set to get its own Planning Inspectorate after the Welsh Government concluded policy there now differed too far from England for a joint one to be any longer viable. The Welsh Government said planning law and policy had “diverged and continues to diverge at an accelerating rate from planning law and policy in…
Working at Vision Products has helped Jason Rowley grow in confidence, enabling him to live independently – in a home fitted with PVCu windows that have been manufactured at his workplace. Jason, aged 49, of Talbot Green, never dreamed that when he started work as a production operative with the Council’s award-winning Vision Products in…
These sixth form students from Pontypridd High School have excelled in a national engineering initiative, in which their Council-sponsored project to identify road safety improvements in Cilfynydd has won an award. Pontypridd pupils Tom Penikett, Liam Hooper, Seren Hopkins, Isabelle Preston and Trudy Pounder took part in the EESW Project – organised by the Engineering…
A total of eleven people have been arrested following the disturbance in Pontypridd on May 3.In addition to previous arrests, four teenage boys and two teenage girls have been arrested in the past five days – all have been released on police bail.Four others previously arrested in connection with the incident are also on police…
James Barnes, 42, appeared at Merthyr Crown Court earlier this month after admitting possessing the drug but not supplying it. Officers forced their way into his home in Dyffryn Y Coed on the morning of 28th June (2018) using a chainsaw to gain entry quickly to carry out their search under the Misuse of Drugs…
