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Trading Standards Wales (TSW) warns that whilst rogue traders carrying out work on your home could leave you out of pocket, there is an increasing risk that they will also leave your home unsafe. Trad… Content last updated: 13 November 2025

Merthyr Tydfil indoor market trader in running for top honour

A Merthyr Tydfil Indoor Market trader has progressed to the national final of a prestigious competition for young entrepreneurs after impressing the judges at the Wales regional final in Swansea. Davi… Content last updated: 01 August 2023

Celebrating success as Merthyr Tydfil Youth Service Presented With National Silver Quality Mark for Youth Work

Merthyr Tydfil Youth Service has become the latest organisation to be formally recognised for the quality of their provision, receiving the highly acclaimed Quality Mark for Youth Work (QMYW) in Wales… Content last updated: 13 March 2025

Universal Primary FREE School Meals

Welsh Government aims to provide every child in primary school in Wales with a free school meal by September 2024, regardless of household income. From February 19th 2024, UPFSM (Universal Primary Fre… Content last updated: 15 February 2024

Illegal loan sharks cash-in on cost-of-living pressures

Merthyr Tydfil has been highlighted as one of Wales’s illegal lending hotspots in new research confirming fears that current financial hardships may drive more people to borrow from illegal money lend… Content last updated: 05 November 2024

First Minister Celebrates Universal access to Flying Start

The First Minister of Wales, Eluned Morgan MS, visited the Integrated Children's Centre (ICC) today to commemorate a groundbreaking achievement in early childhood education and care. The visit marked… Content last updated: 17 September 2025

Community Collaboration Brings Play Pod Chwarae to Merthyr

Through a collaboration between Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council’s Play Department and EggSeeds, a community development and outdoor education company Play Pod Chwarae has been developed through… Content last updated: 25 March 2026

Voter ID

Voters in Wales need to show photo ID to vote at polling stations in some elections. This will apply to: Police and Crime Commissioner elections  UK parliamentary by-elections Recall petitions Vo… Content last updated: 17 March 2026

Merthyr Tydfil place names feature in series of podcasts and webinars

Some of Merthyr Tydfil’s best-loved places and landscapes feature in a series of podcasts and webinars produced in an effort to preserve original Welsh place names. Following the success of a public s… Content last updated: 01 August 2022

Council officials meet with SWTRA to address noise complaints

MTCBC’s Environmental Health officers, South Wales Trunk Road Agency (SWTRA) representatives and ward councillors for Penydarren and Dowlais met via Microsoft Teams last week to discuss concerns raise… Content last updated: 11 May 2021

Don’t forget your ID at this year’s polling stations!

Just a polite reminder to residents that in some elections in Wales, like Police and Crime Commissioner elections, UK parliamentary by-elections, and recall petitions, voters will need to show photo I… Content last updated: 12 April 2024

Calling all Voters – Register to vote before the 19th of April

No matter where you were born, if you live in Wales and are 16 or over, you can now vote in the Senedd Elections. However, the deadline for registrations is looming and those newly enfranchised indivi… Content last updated: 10 January 2022

Avoid Christmas Catastrophe

Trading Standards Wales (TSW) warns that for the most part, consumer products offered for sale either on the high street or online are safe. However, dangerous products continue to be supplied to unsu… Content last updated: 11 November 2025