About the Council
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- The Police and Crime Commissioner elections will be held on Thursday 2 May.
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- Today, representatives of Pontypool Rugby Football Club gathered at Pontypool Civic Centre to officially accept and sign a scroll acknowledging their Freedom of the Borough
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- Torfaen Council is extending an invitation to residents to take part in a survey that will help ensure that its new approach to working with communities is delivered in the most effective and impactful way.
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- This Sunday marks the fourth annual Marie Curie Day of Reflection dedicated to those who died during the Covid pandemic.
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- A group that enables young people to talk to the council about issues that affect them has been relaunched.
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- Today, Torfaen Council approved the final budget proposals for 2024/25 and set a council tax rise of 4.95 per cent
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- The council's Ty Blaen office in New Inn is to become an operational site only from Monday 12 February...
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- Twenty-eight residents attended our new-look People's Panel event this week.
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- A Holocaust survivor who endured four concentration camps and the infamous Nazi Death March has dedicated his life to sharing a message of hope.
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- Councillors have approved the results of a review of polling stations and districts in Torfaen.
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- A community project which explores and celebrates key figures who helped to shape Blaenavon town during the Victorian period has been turned into a film.
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- Would you like to find out more - and have your say - about the work the council does or is planning to do?
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- The Council is nearing a balanced budget, having identified £2.8m in further savings since the draft budget in November.
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- A Ukrainian refugee who moved to Torfaen to flee the war with Russia has thanked residents for making her feel welcome.
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- It is with great sadness that the council has been informed that Lewis Jones, the former long-standing councillor for the Trevethin ward in Pontypool and the former Deputy Leader of Torfaen Council has passed away peacefully over Christmas
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