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A pollution incident has occurred following a leak from a heating oil tank located at the former Ardwyn School in Welshpool, Powys County Council has said.

Following a period of wintery weather and with conditions forecast to remain cold for the next few days, work to grit the primary road network across the Powys across the county continues.

The number of hospital patients waiting for support from Powys County Council, before they can return home, has been cut by a third, after extra social care staff were recruited.

A foster carer, who has worked for Powys County Council for 18 years, has received an MBE in the New Year Honours.

Rare aquatic plants are to be given space to thrive along the Montgomery Canal at a new wetland habitat at Wern in Powys after it was opened in a ceremony by Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr MP Steve Witherden.

With further Welsh Government funding secured to extend and improve the active travel routes within the county, work on the schemes in Newtown and Llanidloes will begin in the new year.

A Powys couple, who work as Shared Lives carers, have scooped a top award for helping a young man, who previously spoke only to his mother, to 'find his voice'.

A bid for funding to build a new health and wellbeing hub in Newtown has been submitted to Welsh Government by Powys Teaching Health Board and Powys County Council.

The Severn Valley Water Management Scheme (SVWMS) will be sharing its emerging plan at nine public information sessions in the upper Severn catchment area in the new year.

Powys County Council has welcomed the news that Ysgol Bro Caereinion has been removed from Estyn's list of schools requiring review

The meeting of the council's Planning, Taxi Licensing and Rights of Way Committee scheduled for Friday, 19 December, has been cancelled

Powys County Council has welcomed the news that Newtown High School has been removed from Estyn's list of schools requiring review