Lots of events are planned across Rhondda Cynon Taf this week to celebrate Libraries Week (October 7-12). The aim of Libraries Week is to highlight the different ways that libraries can help people of all ages through digital support, services and activities. Based on the national theme of Celebrating Libraries in a Digital World, activities…
Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Social Care, Janet Finch Saunders AM, has called for a stronger dialogue between care homes, NHS Health Boards and Local Authorities to improve the standard of care for people in a care home. Currently, more than 15,000 people aged over 65 live in a care home in Wales and the…
Despite having rights in law, implemented in 2016, many unpaid carers are failing to receive the help and support they need to care for loved ones. Research published today by Carers Wales shows that many carers are oblivious to, or are having to fight for advice and support, despite having a legal right to a needs assessments,…
After 20 years of Welsh Labour running education in Wales, GCSE results in Wales are going backwards with the results for this year being worse than the summer of 2007. Analysts are predicting that education spending in Wales is to fall back to 2006 levels and a major Welsh employer has raised concerns that the…
The Council will shortly host a series of dedicated sessions across all of its Libraries, where staff will be able to help residents renew their concessionary bus passes using the Transport for Wales website. Transport for Wales is working with Welsh Government to roll out a ‘new-style’ Concessionary Travel Card across Wales by December 31, 2019….
A man from Mountain Ash has been jailed for more than four years for possessing heroin with intent to supply.Stephen Locke, 54, of Fernhill Road, Mountain Ash, was stopped and searched by police who followed his car into a patrol garage on Cardiff Road, Mountain Ash, on 27th September, 2018.Officers carried out a search and…
Officers are appealing for help in identifying the male who supplied the tablet… Local Policing Inspector Stephen Daley is issuing a warning about the dangers of illegal drugs such as ecstasy following a recent incident involving a teenage girl in Talbot Green (Saturday, 21 September, 2019).Police have now launched an investigation into the incident which…
