SKEWEN: New Bonnie Tyler mural revealed in the village she always called home
Jenks painted her in five days for the town council. The reason her face is split down the middle is in the brickwork.
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PORT TALBOT: Grid firm opens £1.06m community fund and wants telling where to spend it
The company building the substations for the furnace is giving the town a community fund to go with them, with two chances this weekend to say what it should pay…
SARN SURGERY: Campaigners warn merger will pile pressure on Kidwelly and Trimsaran
The group that fought to keep Pontyates’ surgery open says the plan to save it now raises questions for two more villages. A drop-in on 20 November is the place…
PYLE: Engineering firm that left Baglan Energy Park has almost doubled its turnover, and picked up a Wales growth award
Seventeen jobs moved over the county line to Village Farm. Two years on, the firm is helping an overseas manufacturer work out how to build modular homes by the thousand.
BRIDGEND: Beautician kept doing laser treatments after regulator told her to stop, 19 of them on her own records
Told to stop, she carried on, and the certificate on the wall was out of date. What the regulator found at a Bridgend salon, and how to check your own.
RICHARD BURTON 10K: Bourb ran through the night for Olivia, then ran the race with 3,000 others
A Tata shift manager set off on Saturday and was still running when Sunday’s race began. What he raised, who he did it for, and the new mum who won…
NEATH: Boy, 17, charged over Halloween knifepoint robbery of girl in Caewern
South Wales Police say he was identified from doorbell and phone footage and tried to run when officers came for him.
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KILVEY HILL: Woman, 87, among three charged after Skyline protest
Two women from Bishopston and St Thomas and a man from Caerphilly were arrested at the construction site on Sunday and are due before Swansea magistrates on 2 December. Campaigners…
BRYNAMMAN: Man who beat woman in the street while on bail for abusing his ex jailed for 52 months
Cameron Morgan broke the woman’s nose and jaw on Cwmgarw Road after she turned him down. Swansea Crown Court heard…
DYFATTY: Anti-social behaviour down 37% and 143 arrests as police hand the crackdown to the council
The Clear phase of Clear, Hold, Build is over after nine months. Police say drug trafficking reports fell by nearly…
DEVOLUTION: More tax powers for Wales now ‘a matter of how and when’, First Minister says after Burnham talks
Rhun ap Iorwerth came out of Glasgow saying the Prime Minister agrees Wales’ borrowing limits have to change. He also told him devolution inside Wales is the Senedd’s business, and…
BURRY PORT: Wales’ first commercially caught bluefin tuna went over the counter at a Saturday morning fish market
Five fish landed at Milford Haven under a Welsh Government trial were cut and sold by Whitfish in Burry Port.…
NORTH GATE SWANSEA: Cash for benches, fencing and community groups on the cards from £20m fund
The board spending the money is hiring its first three staff, and wants to meet North Hill residents over a…
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…
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…
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.
CATHERINE ZETA JONES: ‘Give me a little bit’: Michael Douglas gets his Swansea wife to tap dance on the bathroom floor
The 82-year-old told Heart Breakfast what he loves most about life at home with the childhood tap champion from Mumbles. He also had a line about Kathleen Turner.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘A play about nothing and a play about everything’, Swansea Little Theatre’s Under Milk Wood at the Dylan Thomas Theatre
Dylan Thomas's play for voices returns to the theatre that bears his name, where the writer himself was a member…
SWANSEA: Oriel Science turns ten, and says 180,000 people have been through its doors
It started with a DeLorean in a pop-up on Princess Way. Now the city-centre science gallery has extra opening days…
REMEMBRANCE: Trains join the buses in going free for veterans and serving forces, with one extra day
SWANSEA: Council says it’s filled 2,300 potholes since April as its £14m road repair blitz continues
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SWANSEA: Seven libraries are lending out daylight lamps to get you through the winter
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He thought he’d been punched. CCTV shows traffic trying to get round the fight.
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LLANELLI: Three indoor padel courts are taking shape at Machynys
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SWANSEA: Treboeth man, 55, dies after being pulled from the River Tawe
Emergency services were called to the river on Sunday lunchtime. Police say there are no suspicious circumstances.