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When are Stagecoach drivers in Blackwood going on strike?

Tuesday, October 5, 2021Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Stagecoach drivers based in Blackwood have announced the dates they are to go on strike over a pay dispute.

Welsh Government facing calls to outline its GCSE and A-level plans

Tuesday, October 5, 2021Wednesday, October 18, 2023

The Welsh Conservatives have called on Wales’ Education Minister to set out his plans for next summer’s GCSE and A-levels.

First Minister urges PM to reverse scrapping of £20 Universal Credit uplift

Tuesday, October 5, 2021Wednesday, October 18, 2023

First Minister Mark Drakeford has joined forces with the leaders of Scotland and Northern Ireland to call for the £20 Universal Credit uplift to be reintroduced.

Former dinner lady ‘Aunty Florrie’ celebrates 100th birthday

Monday, October 4, 2021Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Florence Howarth, a former dinner lady at Cwm Ifor school in Penyrheol, is celebrating her 100th birthday.

The first new council homes for almost 20 years

Monday, October 4, 2021Monday, October 4, 2021

Caerphilly County Borough Council is now the owner of six new houses on a 55-home estate built on the former site of Bedwellty School in Aberbargoed.

Council ward boundaries changes to go ahead – but some proposals are scrapped

Friday, October 1, 2021Wednesday, October 18, 2023

A proposed merger of the Ynsyddu and Crosskeys wards is off, while the Forge Mill estate will remain a part of Ystrad Mynach.

All 12 to 15-year-olds to be offered vaccine before end of October half-term

Friday, October 1, 2021Wednesday, October 18, 2023

All 12 to 15-year-olds in Wales will have been offered a coronavirus vaccine by the end of October half-term, Wales’ Health Minister has said.

Health Board chief exec appointed new Welsh NHS boss

Friday, October 1, 2021Friday, October 1, 2021

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Chief Executive Judith Paget has been appointed as the new Welsh NHS boss.

Black, Asian and ethnic minority history set to be added to new school curriculum

Friday, October 1, 2021Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Wales is set to become the first country in the UK to introduce the teaching of Black, Asian and minority ethnic histories and experiences into the school curriculum.

Family pays tribute to cyclist, 76, killed in collision

Thursday, September 30, 2021Thursday, September 30, 2021

The family of a cyclist who was killed in a collision in Bedwas over the weekend have paid tribute to their “beloved husband, father and grandfather”.

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