KILVEY HILL: The Skyline site’s bare slopes are being sprayed green to grow a meadow
Crews are hosing a mix of seed, mulch and nutrients onto the ground stripped for the gondola and luge. It's the first step in greening the hill back over, with…
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PORT TALBOT: Tata found guilty after two steelworkers breathed in gas at 18 times the safe limit
The pair stayed behind until every contractor was out, and now the steel giant faces a fine.
PEATLANDS: Almost £2m from the Lottery to bring the bogs back above the Afan and Neath valleys
The partnership that turned a drained plantation above Glyncorrwg back into bog is returning with a bigger plan for the hills once known as the Alps of Glamorgan, and this…
FISHGUARD: The lifeboat paid for by a generation of Blue Peter viewers is retiring after 34 years
Blue Peter VII is the only all-weather lifeboat ever to carry the name. The RNLI has now said when she goes, what replaces her, and which other Welsh stations are…
LLANELLI: Ysgol Pen Rhos pupils kept indoors all afternoon as bomb disposal team deals with suspected shell at the fly-plague waste site next door
The primary school told parents the find was well away from its 3G pitch and it was safe to stay open, but changed its end-of-day plans. The shell was found…
LLANELLI: Closing-down signs go up at TGJones in Trostre, the third of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go
Staff say the shop that was WHSmith until last year has weeks left. The chain has still not announced a single closure in south-west Wales, but the posters keep going…
SWANSEA: Residents’ worries about the city’s rivers and beaches are heading to Welsh Water
Torsten Bell says what he heard at his Turning the Tides meeting will be put to the company. Here’s why the water is on so many minds.
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MORRISTON: Man jailed after locking his ex inside her own home and smashing her phone
He took her phone and her keys, and she was trapped inside for hours. She got out only because a neighbour heard her shouting from a window.
AMMANFORD: Cocaine dealer jailed after police raid finds £5,500 cash in boxes and bags
Officers forced their way in and found white powder, scales and cash split between boxes and bags. The dealer wasn't…
SPIKING: Five years after the Wind Street needle reports, Swansea’s bar staff, doormen and taxi drivers are invited to Wales’ first night-time safety summit
The woman who invented Ask for Angela and the mother who won Martyn's Law will be in Builth Wells on…
ALN FUNDING: Plaid and Labour strike £60m deal to revive the budget that fell in July
Labour asked for £100m this year and walked away from £40m. The number the two sides have settled on sits between them, and it brings back everything else that fell…
SWANSEA: Council housing officers could get powers to shut ‘cuckooed’ homes and bar troublemakers
Swansea Council adopted the powers in 2018 and its housing service never built them into day-to-day work. Cabinet is now…
PETROL PRICES: Google Maps now shows you the cheapest fuel near you
Every forecourt has had to report its prices within half an hour since February. From today the numbers sit on…
SA1: Swansea firms will be able to try out robots before they buy, at a new university hub
Boston Dynamics and ABB are among the names backing it. The point isn’t to build robots, it’s to help businesses work out whether one would pay.
PENLLERGAER: Engineering firm that started in a Llanmorlais garage turns 60, with the third generation in charge
The family firm moved to Penllergaer in 1970 to be near its key customer at the time, 3M. The 3M…
KINGSWAY: Office block on old Oceana nightclub site named best in the UK
The former nightclub site won the British Council for Offices' Best of the Best award in London on Tuesday, five…
STRICTLY: Swansea’s Melanie Walters is out, a week later than she thought she would be
Three of the four judges saved Shaun Wright-Phillips in Sunday’s dance-off. Gwen signed off in Welsh, and Stacey had something to say on Instagram.
PONTARDAWE: Mary Hopkin to receive Welsh Music Inspiration Award, 58 years after ‘Those Were The Days’
The singer Paul McCartney took to number one is being honoured at the Welsh Music Prize tonight, and her daughter…
MICHAEL DOUGLAS: ‘I won her back? It was a mutual’: Hollywood star on his 2013 split from Swansea’s Catherine Zeta-Jones
The 82-year-old, promoting his memoir One Helluva Ride, bristled when The Sunday Times asked how he won back his Swansea-born…
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LLANELLI: Woman who threatened to stab Asda worker with a needle jailed for four years
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FIREWORKS: Swansea’s Bonfire Night display is leaving St Helen’s for Singleton Park
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LLANDOVERY: Firefighter Cathryn, 19, got thank-you cards from her swimming pupils after the wildfires
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