Labour candidate Catherine Fookes has pitched in to help Ramblers Cymru volunteers install a new kissing gate on the Three Castles Walk in Grosmont.
Joining the Path Maintenance Team Leader, Andrew Stumpf, and MonLife Community Links Officer, Tom Arnold, Ms Fookes, and Cllr Su McConnel spent the morning lending a hand to dig and remove an old wooden stile on the Three Castles Walk route in Grosmont, which needed upgrading.
Working in partnership with Ramblers Cymru, Britain's walking charity, and Monmouthshire County Council, Mon Life Countryside, volunteers have been busy repairing local rights of way and making footpaths more accessible by replacing old wooden stiles with new metal kissing gates. The group has already surveyed an incredible 198k of local paths in Monmouthshire.
Thanks to a three-year £5.6m grant from the Welsh Government to councils and national park authorities across Wales, Monmouthshire County Council pays for the kit and training, and volunteers provi