
Rhys Williams
News Editor at Caerphilly Observer
News Editor @CaerphillyObsvr / @UoGjourno graduate / [email protected]
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caerphilly.observer | Rhys Williams
Support quality, independent, local journalism…that mattersFrom just £1 a month you can help fund our work – and use our website without adverts. Become a member todayTwo of Caerphilly County Borough’s MPs have both raised concerns over planned UK Government welfare cuts – with plans to vote against the plans.
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caerphilly.observer | Rhys Williams
Support quality, independent, local journalism…that mattersFrom just £1 a month you can help fund our work – and use our website without adverts. Become a member todayA technology and IT partnership between a number of Gwent public bodies is to move its data to a cloud-based system. The services are currently hosted on site at the SRS, or Shared Resource Service, which has a base at the Gilchrist Thomas Industrial Estate in Blaenavon. Why is Caerphilly in Gwent?
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caerphilly.observer | Rhys Williams
Support quality, independent, local journalism…that mattersFrom just £1 a month you can help fund our work – and use our website without adverts. Become a member todayA robber is wanted back behind bars following his release from prison. Jordan Williams, 26, from the New Tredegar area, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court in September 2022, where he was handed a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence for robbery.
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caerphilly.observer | Rhys Williams
Support quality, independent, local journalism…that mattersFrom just £1 a month you can help fund our work – and use our website without adverts. Become a member todayAn art exhibition has opened at Caerphilly Library, showcasing the work of a Ukrainian artist and poet-turned refugee. Mother-of-three Olesia Miftahova left Ukraine last year, having initially stayed in the hope the war would end.
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caerphilly.observer | Rhys Williams
Support quality, independent, local journalism…that mattersFrom just £1 a month you can help fund our work – and use our website without adverts. Become a member todayBedwas RFC has relaunched its youth team ahead of the 2025/26 season. Training begins on Tuesday July 1, with the aim of giving young players a route into senior rugby. Steve Laws, the club’s rugby director, said: “When I got back involved with Bedwas it was a priority of mine to get the youth team back up and running.
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