News in Cowbridge

Nub News have teamed up with Penarth resident and computer scientist Michael Fox to bring you a daily update of localised COVID statistics.

Please flick through the gallery to find graphs and maps with the most up-to-date case numbers.

Commuters to Cardiff from Cowbridge and Vale villages are concerned that if the Vale of Glamorgan Council's plans for a new road from Junction 34 of M4 to A48 goes ahead, their daily journeys could take much longer.

The traffic lights at Sycamore Cross on A48 are already a cause of daily traffic tail backs and if 1000's more cars, vans and lorries as estimated, pour onto the A48 from the planned new road from the M4 then congestion and delays, it is feared, will get worse.

Nub News have teamed up with Vale resident and computer scientist Michael Fox to bring you a daily update of localised COVID statistics.

Please flick through the gallery to find graphs and maps with the most up-to-date case numbers.

Cowbridge Nub News aims to support our community, promoting shops, businesses, charities, clubs and sports groups.

We will be profiling some of these businesses and organisations in a feature called 'Up Close in Cowbridge'.

Nub News have teamed up with Vale resident and computer scientist Michael Fox to bring you a daily update of localised COVID statistics.

Please flick through the gallery to find graphs and maps with the most up-to-date case numbers.

The number of COVID-19 cases reported in Cowbridge last week. Between 31 Oct and 6 Nov, five cases were reported in the area, down from 15 the previous week.

This places Cowbridge in the third lowest decile for COVID rates in Wales, with 77.6 cases per 100,000 people.

Although lockdown rules have restricted the Poppy Appeal in Cowbridge, residents are still keen to support the cause, and are getting creative to raise money.

Here is a link to Elizabeth's JustGiving page .

The Welsh Blood Service will be at Cowbridge Leisure Centre on 17 November, taking blood donations via a booking system.

There are also sessions scheduled for 3 and 4 of December. Anyone living within a 15-mile radius of Cowbridge can book an appointment here .

When the seamstresses of Llanmaes came together in March to discuss how they could support their local community through lockdown, little did they know how far their work would go.

The women have been using their skills to make masks in a wide variety of colours and designs: from poppy masks for Remembrance Day, to festive face-coverings for the approaching Christmas season, to limited edition World Rugby Union masks that have been sent as far as New Zealand, there really is a mask for everyone.

Cowbridge History Society has collaborated with Llantwit Major Local History Society to support the publication of the book 'A Journey Down the Thaw Valley'.

Christine Young, of Llantwit Major Local History Society, was the co-ordinating editor, gathering everyone's input and putting the book together into a readable form. She shared details from the preface of the book, including the inspiration behind it: