And the boarded up high street means people are now forced to leave town if they want to go to pubs, clubs and shops. The borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf has seen former coalfield communities ...

It is understood to be shutting nearly 100 stores - equivalent to around a quarter of its 364 shops. Stores in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, St Austell, Cornwall and Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf have ...

pitheads of Rhondda framing him, as testament to the village's heyday. A handful of shops, a chippy, and the local pub, the Maerdy Hotel, where you'll find a few locals nursing cans of Carling and ...

To get all the latest Rhondda news straight to your inbox ... Responding to the objectors’ concerns around the oversaturation of barber shops impacting upon the retail centre as a whole and ...

Despite 34 separate letters of objection, Rhondda Cynon Taf's planning committee ... Six additional barber shops operate in the neighbouring towns of Blackwood and Newbridge, just ten miles ...