Another said that local businesses should be supported, and the current café should be retained. Other objections included asking questions over the necessity of an activities centre, traffic on Fountain Road, and the proposed look of the new facilities. The proposal has been put forward by the Canal and River Trust in conjunction with Torfaen and Caerphilly County Borough Councils. The three organisations have been successful in bidding for funding from the Welsh European Funding Office to provide an activity hub at the site. If approved, the project will see the demolition of an existing toilet block on land west of the Telephone Exchange, and a new building on the site.
A petition, gathered by residents living in Abercarn, in Caerphilly County Borough, where riders use the forestry despite there being no permission for off-roading, will also be presented to the UK government by Evans. The petition says as well as concerns at damage the vehicles do to the countryside, tearing up turf, which isn’t given a chance to recover, people using the forestry for walking and cycling and permitted activities such as horse riding have been threatened by scramblers and off-roaders. “The issue goes back years and years and even my predecessor had to deal with this, it is a real problem and a real plague in the Valleys.
Risca Garden of Rest revamp with help from Morrison s Rogerstone southwalesargus.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from southwalesargus.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Torfaen matched the Welsh average at six per 1,000 people – 287 from the Republic of Ireland and 223 from Northern Ireland, while Caerphilly County Borough had a lower rate of four per 1,000 – 356 from the republic and 303 from Northern Ireland. The London borough of Islington had Britain’s highest rate of people born in Ireland and Northern Ireland, at 35 in every 1,000. Brian Dalton, chief executive of Irish in Britain, said: This year’s celebrations have made us seek new ways to stay in touch and honour the values of kinship and community. If there is any learning for us through such a difficult year it is how we relate and take care of each other, Irish or not.
A coroner has criticised the care given to residents who died at a scandal-hit nursing home as he highlighted a withering catalogue of failings – accusing managers of “dehumanising” and “warehousing” the elderly.
Assistant Gwent Coroner Geraint Williams said the deaths of five residents at the Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar, South Wales, were contributed to by neglect.
He accused the owners and staff at the home of a “gross betrayal of the trust” placed in them by families of the residents by keeping them in the dark over the poor standards of care.
Mr Williams recorded narrative conclusions for June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71. He said Stanley James, 89, died of natural causes.