SWANSEA BAY METRO: Every new station and tram line now has a price tag – but the funding still has to be found
Each piece of the Swansea Bay Metro now has a price tag for the first time: Cockett station, hourly trains to Pembroke Dock and Milford Haven, passenger trains on the…
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POTHOLES: Reports drop by more than 80% since Christmas, but repair costs rocket as asphalt jumps 10% in a month
Weekly pothole reports in Swansea are down from 350 to about 60. The bill for the big road repairs the council can't afford has hit £70m and is going up.
NEW HOMES: 31 more houses for St Clears and Carmarthen as developers land £7.5m
Twenty-four homes, seven of them affordable, go up at Priory Fields in St Clears, and seven more on the old industrial land at Maes y Teirw in Carmarthen, after the…
PORTHCAWL: Lifeguard, 21, helped design the RNLI’s new beach huts. Now she works out of one at Trecco Bay
Beth Morgan started lifeguarding at 17. This year the engineering student was invited to the RNLI's design team to help build the new units rolled out across the UK, and…
MARLOES SANDS: Search for missing 14-year-old called off after two days
Lifeboats, aircraft, police marine officers and coastguard teams searched the Pembrokeshire coast from St Ann's Head to Broad Haven for a boy who got into difficulty in the water on…
MAESTEG: 192 homes on the old Revlon factory site start next month, with a new builder and a later finish
Diggers are due on Ewenny Road in October and the first homes should be ready by April 2027. But Avant Homes, named a year ago to build the scheme, is…
LEAF BOAT: Castle Square’s lost sculpture takes shape in Dylan Thomas’s park
Eight months after it was lifted out of Castle Square, Swansea's Leaf Boat is being installed at the Cwmdonkin Park pond, and the first pictures show it in place. The…
BRITON FERRY: Rapist who made victim’s life ‘a living hell’ handed extended 17-year sentence
A judge ruled Talvinder Atwal "took pleasure" in his victim's distress and branded him a dangerous offender. The Parole Board will decide if he is ever safe to release.
YSTALYFERA: Family’s tribute to ‘beloved’ motorcyclist Mel Austin who died in A4067 crash
Melvin Austin, 73, died following a collision near Cray on Wednesday. His family say his "kindness, warmth and love touched…
SWANSEA: Sacked Land Registry solicitor must pay £20,000 after tribunal condemns ‘vindictive’ campaign
Paul Farthing accused the lawyers defending his employment claim of fraud and repeatedly claimed they were under police investigation, accusations…
WALES: Record £447m capital gains tax bill as thousands more dragged into the net
HMRC figures show 18,000 people in Wales paid capital gains tax last year, up nearly a third, after the tax-free allowance was slashed to £3,000.
MARTIN LEWIS: ‘Genuine step forward’ as bailiffs forced to answer to a watchdog
The money expert says most people who get a bailiff at the door are vulnerable. After years of campaigning, the…
ROGUE TRADERS: Crackdown targets the gutter-clean con that fleeced valley pensioners
The scam the UK Government wants to kill off is one Swansea Bay courtrooms know well. New protections will hold…
TGJONES: Closing-down sale signs go up at Tenby store after 99 years on the High Street
Signs offering 30% off are up at 7 High Street, and the letting particulars for the shop promise refurbishment and vacant possession, making Tenby the first visible casualty among the…
LLANELLI: Aldi lodges Sandy Road plans, with the car park entrance moved after a council safety objection
The application to demolish Pinopolis has gone in to Carmarthenshire Council. Aldi has shifted the main vehicle entrance off Sandy…
PORT TALBOT: New Nisa opens on the Old Gasworks Estate, and hands £500 to the local football club
The shop on the Old Gasworks Estate is the first for owners Yugrajvir Singh Bajwa and Parminder Singh, and brings…
SCOLTON MANOR: £190k revamp will open up the hidden world below stairs
"Scolton House: It's Bigger on the Inside" will give the Victorian manor near Haverfordwest its first major overhaul since the 1990s, turning the servants' quarters and cellar into spaces visitors…
SWANSEA: The Britain’s Got Talent kid who sang for Michael Jackson just landed a lead in HBO’s hottest drama
Shaheen Jafargholi, who went from a Swansea stage school to the BGT final and Michael Jackson's memorial before EastEnders and…
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘Surface level Shakespeare and that’s perfectly fine’, Illyria’s As You Like It at Oystermouth Castle
Outdoor company Illyria open their Mumbles run with Shakespeare's romantic comedy at the foot of Oystermouth Castle, and reviewer Jonathan…
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Moses Jolly took the Guido Vianello fight on two weeks' notice. On Saturday the unbeaten Townhill heavyweight steps up in…
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CEFNEITHIN: £7,350 for the two-year-old her family believe is the only child in the world with her conditions
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SWANSEA: The peace project started here after 9/11 has won its founder an international award
Pam Evans MBE, who set up Peace Mala in 2001, was presented with a Leadership and Excellence Award at the…