Private Sector Involvement in the NHS It seems Labour MPs in Westminster, including both the Caerphilly and Islwyn MPs, are completely out of touch with their colleagues back here in Wales.

Boundary Shake-up I must say I was shocked by the proposals put forward by the Boundary Commission on the election of future MPs.

Library Service It’s great to see that progress is being made on developing a new library and council customer service centre in Caerphilly town centre following the approval of planning permission.

Supermarket Dominance Caerphilly Observer readers will be well aware of my views on the planning committee’s decision to approve three shops on the site of the old Bowls Inn in my Penyrheol ward.

The big issue at the Assembly has been the economic crisis – and what is being done to respond to it.

Many local authorities in England are looking to reduce new library services in the wake of savage spending cuts from the Westminster Coalition Government.

By Caerphilly Plaid Cymru councillor Lynne Hughes, a mother-of-three primary aged children in Welsh medium

At first glance, you would have thought so.

Caerphilly Observer readers may have read on the BBC Wales website or heard on the radio and TV that Plaid-led Caerphilly Council was the only one of Wales’ 22 local authorities not to make compulsory staff redundancies over the last three financial years.

I’m writing to the chief executive of the Aneurin Bevan Health Board to support the calls from Caerphilly Council’s Cabinet to name wards at the new £172m Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr after the area’s former collieries.

I’m still buzzing after attending the culmination of Stage Four of the Tour of Britain cycle race in Caerphilly.

The details published on deprivation make pretty awful reading.

And it needs to because we have a very busy period ahead of us with some important business breakfasts and other networking events culminating in our annual awards ceremony in November.

I wanted to congratulate all A level students, staff and parents in Caerphilly.

In the last couple of weeks we’ve gone from riots and children looting to the desperate scramble for university places before the fees go up … it can only have left some people wondering what’s going on in the minds of young people in Britain.

Campaigners Andrew Farina-Childs and Delwyn Davies, two Blackwood councillors, deserve credit for their excellent work to clear and save the remaining Blackwood Woods, known as Y Coed Duon – or The Black Wood.

I cannot emphasise enough my disappointment at the announcement by the Welsh Government of reduced financial support under the 21st Century Schools building programme.