STORM AUSTEN: ‘Take extra care on the Friday morning commute’ as the warning stretches to 5pm
Trees are in leaf and likely to come down across roads and railways, the Met Office says. Every council area in Wales is now under a wind warning, and National…
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SWANSEA: ‘Now he says hello to every person we pass’: how four years of support changed eight-year-old Jaiden’s world
His dad gave up work to care for a quiet, withdrawn boy at risk of being removed from school. Family Support Wales took him to the park, drove him to…
ST HELEN’S ROAD: Asia Vape shut for a second time in a year as three more Swansea vape shops are closed
Magistrates have closed Vape City and Asia Vape on St Helen’s Road and Vape Zone on Dilwyn Street, the council says. Asia Vapes was on the list when nine shops…
ST HELEN’S: Verdi’s owner takes over the food at the Ospreys’ new ground, and promises ‘Swansea’s biggest party space’
Ryan Hole’s Secret Hospitality Group, which runs The Secret across the road, ROK and The Lighthouse, will run hospitality and the fan zone food from a marquee called The Aviary.…
SOUTH WALES POLICE: Officers get Sur-Rons of their own, the e-bikes they keep seizing in Swansea
The force says the lightweight electric motorbikes will get officers through traffic and down roads patrol cars can't reach. It has also bought six drones. It hasn't said how many…
BRIDGEND MURDER: Clifford Foster, 61, charged over the death of Eleanor Barnfield
He is due before Newport magistrates on Friday morning. Police say the case is not being investigated as a domestic incident and have asked people not to speculate.
PORT TALBOT: Man who raped a teenager after handing out vodka jailed for eight years
Damien Samuel, 44, denied it and took it to trial. The judge called the two-year wait for the case to reach court "absolutely scandalous".
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BRIDGEND MURDER: Ambulance service says delayed-response rumours are ‘factually untrue’
A rapid response car reached Coity Road seven minutes after the 999 call on Monday, the Welsh Ambulance Service says, with two ambulances and the air ambulance's critical care team…
GŴYR ABERTAWE: Reform MS Francesca O’Brien says threats to her home and family business are now with the police
She says members of the public flagged the threats, made on social media by someone local, in a week when…
BRIDGEND MURDER: Police name Coity Road victim as Eleanor Barnfield, 47, ‘our rock’ to her family
The Valleys to Coast worker died in hospital after her car hit a wall on Monday. A 61-year-old man remains…
COUNCIL TAX: Bands stay stuck on 2003 values into the 2030s as Plaid shelves the revaluation to save £80m
A quarter of households could have gone up a band, a quarter down. The Finance Minister says cushioning the losers would have cost £80m in the first year, money she…
GOWER: Swansea’s longest-serving councillor joins Reform UK, his daughter’s party, after 53 years and four party labels
Richard Lewis first stood for the council as a Conservative in 1969, the year Swansea became a city. He has…
JANE DODDS: Welsh Lib Dem leader stands down after nine years, saying a ‘new generation’ should rebuild the party
She stays on as MS for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd, the party's only Senedd seat, "to hold them to that promise…
UPLANDS: Post Office wants to move out of Uplands News and into the old Rainbow childrenswear shop
The branch would go 130 metres up Uplands Crescent to the empty boutique at number 29, refurbished with a convenience store alongside and the same postmaster behind the counter. The…
GROWTH CASH: Got a £500k idea? Under two weeks to bid, and there’s a catch
The region’s councils want big ideas that can grow the economy. Every project has to be finished by December 2028.
PORT TALBOT: £9.2m to turn waterfront land into six business units and room for floating wind
Two of the four Celtic Freeport projects sharing £18.4m are in Port Talbot. Neither has a start date or a…
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘Equally evocative and entertaining’, Grand Ambition’s A Tidy Boy at the Grand’s Arts Wing
Peter Darney's one-act comedy drama about young offenders, and the people trying to turn their lives around, brings Grand Ambition back to the Grand's Arts Wing. Reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds…
KINGSWAY: Roof off, sound still on. The Bunkhouse’s leaking roofs are fixed and the solar panels are up
Its operator says storms, leaks and building work never stopped the gigs. Now the community-owned venue has three repaired roofs,…
BBC: BBC Three to go off air as a TV channel next spring, with Radio 4 Extra closing too
BBC Three's programmes move to iPlayer and YouTube, and Radio 4 Extra's to BBC Sounds, as the corporation looks for…
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