March 2025 - Page 2 of 8 - AberdareOnline

Natural Reconnection: How Welsh Holidaymakers Master the Art of Restoration

Team @ AberdareOnline29 March 202529 March 202503 mins

Welsh holidaymakers have pioneered a distinctive “nature-first, Europe-focused” approach totravel wellbeing that defies typical UK patterns. New research from InsureandGo reveals Walesleads the nation in ‘camping for nature’ immersion, with 54% choosing this holiday optioncompared with the national average (44%).Welsh holidaymakers have found a distinctive formula combining European travel (54% prefershort-haul trips vs. 47% nationally)…

Join the World’s Biggest Fundraising Swim at Our Leisure Centres!

Team @ AberdareOnline29 March 202529 March 202502 mins

Swimmers across Caerphilly County Borough are invited to take part in Swimathon 2025, the world’s largest fundraising swim, from 28th to 30th March 2025. Leisure Lifestyle are proud to be official hosts, providing swimmers of all abilities the opportunity to take on the challenge while raising funds for Cancer Research UK, Marie Curie, and the…

Tonypandy school is flying the flag for gas safety

Team @ AberdareOnline29 March 202517 mins

A Tonypandy primary school is flying the flag for gas safety after pupils took on board vital information from a visit from Wales & West Utilities and turned it into a creative design that has scooped joint top prize in a national competition. Last year pupils at Ss. Gabriel and Raphael Catholic Primary School received…

Axe the toxic tourism tax

Team @ AberdareOnline24 March 202502 mins

A Finance Committee report published today into the Welsh Government’s incoming ‘visitor levy’, included testimonies and views expressing considerable concerns with the bill, from organisations such as ScoutsCymru, Wales Tourism Alliance, the Federation of Small Businesses and others. The principle of a tourism tax enjoys support of the Welsh Labour Government, Plaid Cymru and the…

Corridor care “epitomises Labour mismanagement of NHS

Team @ AberdareOnline24 March 202502 mins

Corridor care in Welsh emergency departments has become “endemic”, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has said. A survey carried out this January and February identified all 12 of Wales’ emergency departments as treating patients in corridors and waiting areas. https://www.rcn.org.uk/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Documents/Publications/2025/January/011-958.pdf Commenting, James Evans MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social…

Three charged following multi-million pounds fraud investigation

Team @ AberdareOnline24 March 202501 mins

Following an investigation by South Wales Police, with vital evidence provided by the Charity Commission for England & Wales, three people have been charged in connection with a multi-million pounds fraud and theft investigation into the former independent Cardiff Sixth Form College which happened between 2012 and 2016. Yasmin Anjum Sarwar, 43, from Cyncoed, Cardiff…

Cwmbach Community Wetlands Down to Zero scooped a national Community Management Award Cymru

Team @ AberdareOnline21 March 202521 March 202504 mins

Hello All – just dropping this here as Down to Zero won a national award yesterday for community management of their sites. As most of you know, we are working with Cwmbach Community Wetlands and hope we can support the group to win this award for your management of the wetlands next year. The aim…

Action plan signals bright future for Blackwood Miners Institute

Team @ AberdareOnline21 March 202521 March 202503 mins

A key roadmap, setting out the steps to secure a bright new future for Blackwood Miners institute, has been agreed by Caerphilly Council’s Cabinet this week. A key roadmap, setting out the steps to secure a bright new future for Blackwood Miners institute, has been agreed by Caerphilly Council’s Cabinet this week. A 14-point plan…

AED was not accessible on the building of the Bute Arms when a 999 emergency call was made from a member of the public

Team @ AberdareOnline20 March 202520 March 202504 mins

Following on from this urgent concern with Valley Times and the life-saving incident that happened yesterday outside Wetherspoons in Aberdare We at RCT Heart Heroes Charity team of volunteers look after over 250 AEDs throughout the community of Rhondda Cynon Taf in keeping our community Heart Safe In relation to this incident that we are…

Causing deliberate grass fires is a criminal offence which is classed as arson.

Team @ AberdareOnline20 March 202520 March 202502 mins

Every year, we see grass fires devastate swathes of landscape. Not all are set deliberately, but many of these fires are preventable and caused by our behaviour. All damage wildlife and habitats, and put the lives of firefighters and people in neighbouring communities at risk. South Wales Police community safety manager Gareth Prosser, the force…