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Daring to Dream, a charity dedicated to promoting the emotional health and wellbeing of patients in Wales, has joined forces with Mind Cymru, the leading mental health charity, for its fourth virtual Lleswyl Festival. Working together, the organisations aim to raise awareness of and participation in the annual live-streamed event, which takes place on ‘Lleswyl 2025’ channel […]

A vital community leisure facility has been awarded with £300,000 worth of funding from Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund.  Afan Valley Swimming Pool in Cymmer has become a vital community hub, providing group and one-to-one swimming lessons, family swims, and lane swimming seven days a week, with 36,000 visits recorded annually. The pool […]

Over 90 direct flights at Wales’ National Airport for tournament Rugby fans can soak up the Six Nations atmosphere in Cardiff, Belfast, Dublin, Edinburgh and Rome, thanks to extra flights to and from Cardiff Airport. A total of 96 flights will operate between Cardiff Airport and the major cities. Passengers making use of flights to […]

Trivallis Housing Association has launched a new Community Housing service based on an exciting ‘team around the tenant’ approach. Inspired by the best ideas in social care, this is a first-of-its-kind initiative in Wales. With over 10,000 homes in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Cardiff Bay, Trivallis is one of Wales’ largest housing associations. The new […]

Having discovered she has a degenerative eye condition, Bridie Doyle-Roberts is stepping into the uncertain world of impending blindness.   As a performer and artist, Bridie has used her experience to create an immersive theatrical art installation, Spectrum of Sight, to explore how we see, what we see and what it feels like when the […]

Stagecoach South Wales has announced the launch of its new ‘Rhondda Fach Connector Ticket’ in partnership with Transport for Wales. The new ticket will be available to purchase on the bus, train, or at the train station from Monday 3 February 2025. The Rhondda Fach Connector Ticket allows passengers to travel on any valid Stagecoach […]

Major emergency works for the culvert on Troed-yr-Rhiw Road, Mountain Ash, will begin on 3rd February and take place over 8 weeks. The work will be completed over two phases, taking approximately 4 weeks each. The culvert at Troed-yr-Rhiw Road was significantly damaged as a result of Storm Bert. While urgent repairs were undertaken at the time so the […]

Senior men’s head coach Warren Gatland has named the Wales team to play France in the opening match of the 2025 Guinness Six Nations at Stade de France, Paris on Friday 31 January (KO 20.15h GMT, live on ITV and S4C). Josh Adams, Liam Williams and Dafydd Jenkins return to the Wales starting XV at […]

Transport for Wales and Rhondda Cynon Taf Council are excited to announce that the Porth Bus Interchange will open on Thursday 30 January, allowing customers to explore the brand-new facility before Stagecoach begins operating bus services from the site from Sunday 02 February. On Thursday 30 January, TfW will officially open the new interchange to […]

Adventure company Zip World has been sold in a deal that values the business at more than £100 million. The Llanberis-based firm was established by Sean Taylor, who retains a minority stake alongside new owners Dolphin Capital. Zip World has eight sites across Wales and England, including Zip World Tower. Chief executive Andrew Hudson said […]

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is completing an engagement exercise to help inform and develop a Tonypandy Town Centre Strategy – which will set out an ambitious and clear vision for the town, and be the blueprint for future investment locally. Regeneration funding has been secured from Welsh Government, via its Transforming Towns Placemaking grant, to […]