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1 week ago | msn.com | Twm Owen

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1 week ago | southwalesargus.co.uk | Twm Owen

3 1/3 A COUNCIL’S eight most senior officers are to receive pay rises of around £10,000 and more. A decision backed by a majority of Monmouthshire County Councillors will see its chief executive Paul Matthews receive a pay rise of £9,792 over the next two years taking his salary to £141,000 in the 2026/27 financial year.

1 week ago | walesonline.co.uk | Jonathon Hill |Twm Owen

There are plans for volunteers to be on call if needed to attend funerals in one part of Wales for people who have died with no next of kin. Torfaen Borough Council organised funerals of three people last year who had died with no known relatives and now the council has backed plans to have a team of volunteer mourners on standby. The idea is the volunteers can attend funerals if it is feared no one else will.

1 week ago | southwalesargus.co.uk | Twm Owen

6 1/6 A REVIEW of how contracts to provide care at home were awarded will take place following anger at recently agreed changes. Care workers who fear they will be forced from their jobs as their current employer lost contracts to provide care to elderly and vulnerable people at home picketed councillors who arrived for their April meeting.

1 week ago | southwalesargus.co.uk | Twm Owen

A DISPUTED projection of how many pupils could leave an independent school due to VAT on fees was made by a councillor, he has confirmed. Reform UK councillor Stuart Keyte claimed in a council meeting as many as 60 pupils could leave Rougemont School, in Newport, due to the tax that has been applied since January. The school has said it isn’t seeing such a trend. He has now confirmed he had calculated the estimate.  Cllr Keyte said: “It wasn’t a figure I just pulled out of the air.