LLANELLI: Petition launched to move or shut the site blamed for summer’s fly plague
Glanymor councillors Sean Rees and Louvain Roberts say enforcement alone is not enough, and want the future of the AMG Resources site properly reviewed, with relocation or closure on the…
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SENEDD: The seats Wales voted in for the first time in May are already being redrawn, and the names could change too
The Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru has begun the 2030 review of the 16 constituencies used for the first time four months ago, under new rules that free it from…
SWANSEA: The city agency that added five staff in a year has just handed one of them a share of the business
The Swansea-founded firm has added a Chief Strategy Officer with Entain and MediaCom on his CV, launched a network of hundreds of specialists, and is recruiting for two more roles,…
SWANSEA: Gregory Porter opens his 2027 UK tour at the Arena, and tickets go on sale this morning
The two-time Grammy winner plays Swansea Building Society Arena on 24 June 2027, the opening night of a six-date run that ends with three nights at the Royal Albert Hall.…
GORSEINON HOSPITAL: The beds were coming back by March, then by September. Now the plan is that they never do
Swansea Bay's health board wants to permanently move Gorseinon Hospital's 30 inpatient beds to Singleton, promising an expanded community health hub in their place. The public has seven weeks to…
IVF: A month after every new treatment stopped at Neath Port Talbot Hospital, couples are getting a restart date
The Wales Fertility Institute stopped taking new IVF treatments in August after staff absence left it unable to meet its licence conditions. Now a phased restart is planned from Tuesday…
ST HELEN’S ROAD: Two jailed over the £184,000 illegal tobacco trade run through a shop called Swansea Market
A first-floor flat on the street held more than 9,000 packets of cigarettes feeding the shop below, a Swansea Council prosecution found. The shop shares a name with the city's…
LLANELLI: MP calls for noise cameras at North Dock’s night-time ‘racetrack’
Dame Nia Griffith is urging Carmarthenshire County Council and Dyfed-Powys Police to install acoustic cameras, bollards and night barriers at North Dock, five months after police promised stepped-up spring patrols…
JAILED: Maesteg man sentenced to five years and three months for rape
Stephen Jones, 55, was convicted of rape and assault by penetration after a five-day trial, and was sentenced at Cardiff…
RESOLVEN: ‘Raise a glass for Robert’ – a mother’s last appeal on the eve of her missing son’s 40th birthday
Robert Williams was 15 when he vanished in March 2002. Tomorrow he would have turned 40, and his mother Cheryl…
SWANSEA: Nine social homes recovered and £1.2m identified in council fraud crackdown
Swansea Council's fraud team says it identified £1.2m in overpayments and savings in 2025/26, prosecuted four cases and investigated 13 of the council's own staff, according to its annual fraud…
TV SWITCH-OFF: Three in four Welsh adults want Senedd to oppose 2034 Freeview shutdown, poll finds
Polling for a campaign to save terrestrial TV finds most people in Wales doubt the broadband where they live could…
PISA RESULTS: Wales still bottom of the UK class in every subject, as maths slides again
Wales scored lowest of the four UK nations in maths, reading and science in PISA 2025, with maths falling significantly…
BURRY PORT: The land Tesco never built on is up for grabs, and a supermarket is back on the cards
Carmarthenshire Council is inviting developers to bid for the 3.7-acre field by the station, with its own planning advice saying a foodstore remains acceptable, 14 years after Tesco won permission…
TAKE BACK CONTROL: Swansea demands power to block new vape shops after Mansel Street raids
Councillors backed a call for England-style planning powers over vape shops as a cabinet member revealed six arrests in raids…
SWANSEA: Free sign language course for city centre staff opens for bookings after every student on the first passes
Bar staff, zoo keepers and marketing execs were among seven city centre workers who learned British Sign Language on Swansea…
SWANSEA BLITZ: Sold-out play takes 5,000 children from the stage to the city’s real gas masks
Theatr na nÓg's It'll All Be Over by Christmas opens at the Dylan Thomas Theatre this week with every school performance sold out, and workshops at three Swansea institutions carrying…
SWANSEA: Grand Theatre’s summer makeover complete as every stalls seat is replaced
The theatre stripped its auditorium back to bare carpet over the summer. Now the new, wider seats are in, alongside…
TOM JONES: ‘There’s never a good time to fire an 86-year-old who’s still pretty good at his job’
Wales' most famous voice says ITV has fired him from The Voice after nine years in the red chair, and…
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