MORE than £100,000 will be ploughed into Caldicot thanks to Monmouthshire County Council.

Two playgrounds at Caldicot Castle and Cas Troggy will receive £91,788 to carry out improvement works.

Funding will come from Section 106 monies taken from the housing development at Church Road, Caldicot.

Cabinet member, Phil Murphy said: "Upgrading works need to be carried out at Caldicot Castle and Cas Troggy playgrounds. There’s a huge amount of young people in our community who’ll really benefit and have access to the best play equipment. This is a really positive report and I’m sure we’ll all support this."

Caldicot Town Team has scooped £8,097.50 to enable the successful specialist markets to become monthly fixtures in the town.

Councillor Phil Hobson said: "This is building on the initiative of the specialist markets run last year. Due to the savings the town team made, they were able to hold a family fun day and host a Christmas market.

"The town team has now built up a database and done their research."

They were also gifted £4,446 to create a pop up shop in the town centre for would-be businesses looking to set up in the town. Funding for both projects managed by the town team is being taken out of Section 106 monies from the ASDA development.