Aberdare, England News

HEALTH conscious Cynon residents checked out their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes when the Diabetes UK Measure Up Roadshow arrived in town.

THE new and improved Glan Road Neighbourhood Watch Centre, Aberdare, has re-opened with a special celebration party after receiving a big money grant.

SOUTH Wales Police are investigating a suspicious fire at Harriet Street, Aberdare.

THERE was a double celebration at Headlands School in Penarth last week - with special guests dropping in to help with proceedings! The Paget Place school, run by the charity Action for Children, celebrated its 90th birthday - " AND held the grand opening of a A 150,000 Astro Turf football pitch.

ST PETERS still lead the way in Division Three South East after they beat Brecon 8-0 with a try from Robert O'Brian and a penalty from Ryan Jones.

SCOTLAND would be the biggest loser in a post-Barnett Formula needs-based funding model, according to a working paper published today by the Independent Commission on Funding and Finance in Wales.

The UK government will respond later to a report calling for a big increase in the amount of public money allocated to Wales.

YOU would naturally expect places like Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch to appear in any list of the 100 places to see in Wales before you die.

A health watchdog report into how a paranoid schizophrenic came to stab a vicar to death is to be published.

A nurse who abused two 87-year-old men with dementia at a Cardiff hospital has been given a suspended prison sentence.

A talented Leeds rugby league player who collapsed and died during a match unknowingly suffered from a rare heart condition, an inquest has heard.

What would you like to happen to Aberdare and Mountain Ash hospitals when the new hospital opens? Demolish existing buildings and build houses on the site 0% Keep some of the newer buildings and demolish the main hospital as we have an aging population 33% Keep all the existing buildings as they are and find another use for them 33% Build another ...

She's renowned for playing a Londoner in EastEnders, but actress Michelle Collins comes from Welsh stock.

TWO vicious murders in wartime Cardiff and the case of a Polish miner was robbed and stabbed 44 times in Aberdare, are among 28 historic murders South Wales Police has revealed it is reviewing.

HUNDREDS of people took to the streets of Cynon Valley on Remembrance Sunday to pay tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

South Wales Police has revealed it has been reviewing 28 unsolved murders dating back as far the start of World War II.

Passenger lines axed from the rail network under the Beeching reforms in the 1960s could once again see trains.

TEENAGERS caused thousands of pounds of damage after ram-raiding a jewellery store in a stolen motability car.

"WE WERE ordinary men, we wanted jobs, we bought a pit." Miners' leader Tyron O'Sullivan's famous 1994 quote on how he led a workers' buyout of a Welsh Colliery inspired composer Alun Hoddinott to write the hit opera Tower.

Football stadium tours, rock schools, play schemes and days out are just some of the exciting activities that have been organised to keep children and young people entertained this year.