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Caerphilly CGI firm given national contracts boost

Monday, July 21, 2025Monday, July 21, 2025

Dynamic X has earned a place on the UK-wide Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework, thanks to support and advice from the Welsh Government-funded Business Wales.

Food Warehouse proposed for town’s former carpet shop site

Monday, July 21, 2025

The company has applied for planning permission to take over the site of the former Carpetright store on Gallagher Retail Park.

Vaccine offer to protect premature babies from common winter virus

Monday, July 21, 2025

For children born very prematurely, the risk of contracting respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in their first winter is high.

Trading standards teams seize illegal tobacco, vapes and fake goods worth £6.5m

Friday, July 18, 2025

Trading standards officers seized goods worth £6.5 million in Newport last year, during crackdowns on illicit tobacco, vapes and counterfeit items.

Council ‘borrowing heavily’ to fund school rebuilding programme

Friday, July 18, 2025

Cllr Dimitri Batrouni told colleagues the local authority’s total borrowing increased by £31.3 million in the last financial year.

‘Something that I will never take for granted’: Ruth Jones MP talks first year serving Islwyn

Friday, July 18, 2025Monday, July 21, 2025

In her first blog for Caerphilly Observer, Newport West and Islwyn MP Ruth Jones discusses her first year representing the new constituency in parliament.

Only one Gwent council funding specialist mental health support scheme

Friday, July 18, 2025

Newport City Council has a specialist programme to address issues such as drug or alcohol misuse among people who are mentally unwell or deal with issues such as homelessness. 

Decision day looms for plan to cut bin collections

Friday, July 18, 2025Friday, July 18, 2025

The council’s ongoing waste strategy sets out a series of immediate and longer-term measures to drive up the borough’s recycling rates.

Knitters ‘gutted’ after their hard work is destroyed by vandals

Friday, July 18, 2025Friday, July 18, 2025

The display was destroyed less than two weeks after it was put up in the supermarket foyer, with some of the knitted dolls going missing.

School pupils unveil memorial in tribute to Wales’ first black gardener

Friday, July 18, 2025Friday, July 18, 2025

A memorial garden honouring John Ystumllyn – the first documented black gardener in Wales – has been unveiled by pupils at Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni.

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