SWANSEA: Residents tell council the city’s culture is under-funded and too hung up on Dylan Thomas
Residents told the council the city's culture is short of investment, and some said it leans too heavily on Dylan Thomas. The council's new five-year plan agrees there's "huge, untapped…
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PORT TALBOT: Solicitor, 38, who defended a Sandfields cocaine boss jailed after police found he was buying from him
Ben Garvey was the criminal defence solicitor on Daniel Baker's case when Baker was arrested for running a cocaine operation in 2021. The phones police seized in that case showed…
MORRISTON: ‘It’s where my life was saved’: Traitors star returns to say thank you
Andrew Jenkins has reunited with physiotherapist Clare Ford, who helped him recover from devastating crash injuries long before his appearance on the BBC show.
CARMARTHEN: Wilko demolition pushed back to next year as council says a tenant “of significant benefit to the town” is in talks
The bulldozers were booked for 26 October. Now there's a new date, a new bill-payer and a tenant the council won't name, and Buzz Parks has been given a different…
SWANSEA: Just four in ten reports of abuse against vulnerable adults checked within a week, council figures show
Swansea Council says it should investigate reports that a vulnerable adult is being abused or neglected within seven working days. This spring it managed that for fewer than half of…
NEATH: Symphony orchestra to play its first concert in 50 years, with Gladiator on the music stands
Neath Symphony Orchestra is back, and its first performance in half a century is at St David's Church on Friday 16 October. Some of the players learned their instruments under…
SWANSEA ON SCREEN: The Civic Centre is a London police HQ, the Guildhall is a bank and No Sign Bar is a London pub in this year’s TV dramas
Ten productions have filmed in the city in the past year, a council report shows, from Netflix and Amazon to the BBC, ITV and Sky. Most of the time Swansea…
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JAILED: Sandfields man gets 16 years for raping a girl of 12
James Miller, 49, sexually abused the same victim between 1993 and 2001. She reported him to police in 2023, and he has now been given a special custodial sentence.
CYBER ATTACK: Dyfed-Powys Police hit, and the force still can’t say whether staff data was accessed
A regional cyber-crime unit is investigating after the attack took down online and email contact with the force for a…
LLANELLI: Unlicensed taxi driver who drove children with additional learning needs to school fined £2,700
Derrick Lewis was caught driving pupils in a licensed private hire car during a council spot check at Ysgol Heol…
SWANSEA: Council plans to drain £22m from savings pots meant for crematorium repairs and school IT to cover staff equal pay claims
The money was put aside for things like crematorium repairs, the bus station and school IT. Councillors are being asked next Thursday to move it into a fund for equal…
SWANSEA: Francesca O’Brien takes the council’s £13.7m overspend to the Senedd and asks for the ALN cash to go straight to councils
The Gŵyr Abertawe MS put the spending freeze and the reserves to the education minister on Wednesday. Anna Brychan said…
YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: Health minister said 2027. Education minister says no timescale. Still no nurse
Parents at the Llanelli special school were told in August that the rules on who does medical tasks in schools…
SWANSEA: Leeds Building Society promises its branch will stay open until at least 2031, as banks keep leaving
The mutual says all 51 of its branches, Swansea included, will stay open every weekday with no appointment needed. It comes as NatWest's Llanelli and Port Talbot branches were due…
CARMARTHEN: Food wholesaler heads for a record £75m year as Gower Gin’s ‘Baby Guinness’ liqueur makes its Christmas brochure
Harlech Foodservice, which supplies pubs, restaurants, schools and hospitals from its Carmarthen depot, says festive pre-orders are up 1,100% in…
MANUFACTURING: Seven bosses from Llanelli to Bridgend named among the 130 people “shaping the future” of UK industry
Make UK's new 130 Honours, out on National Manufacturing Day, include the heads of Gower Chemicals, EBS Automation, Rototherm and…
AMMANFORD: Owain Wyn Evans swaps the drumsticks for a bike on a 400-mile Children in Need ride
The Ammanford-raised Radio 2 presenter will cycle nearly 400 miles through all four UK nations in five days this November, finishing in Cardiff, weeks before he takes to the stage…
PORT TALBOT: Town of Culture bid gets a new chair, with £3m at stake and until 30 November to make the case
Gemma Charnock, a vice principal at NPTC Group of Colleges, will chair the partnership behind Port Talbot's UK Town of…
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘More than warrants the hype’, Operation Mincemeat at Swansea Grand
Five actors, 20 songs, 24 awards and a dead Welshman: reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds the Olivier-winning musical lives up to…
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JR Group, which runs Together at Christmas with Swansea Council, says the total covers fundraising, sponsorship, donations and in-kind support.…
AFAN VALLEY: A £20m question is heading for every doormat in the valley
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SWANS: New images show how the fan zone behind the South Stand could look
The full planning application includes the first artist's impression of the finished building, with room for about 1,000 fans, a…
SWANSEA: The Cwtch Mawr warehouse has a new name, and a UK-wide charity award to go with it
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NEATH: ‘Time really is against us’: Luca, three, and the £54,000 robotic walker his family are racing to buy
Luca Arnold has a gene change his parents were told makes him the only known case in Wales, and doctors…
RAIL CENTRE: £70m spent, not a pound of private money in, and two ministers in two days won’t say if it’s going ahead
The Global Centre of Rail Excellence at Onllwyn was meant to open last year with up to 1,000 jobs. This…
SWANSEA: The Kicks kid who couldn’t keep his temper on the pitch played for Wales in Mexico
Harri Stevens was 12 when he told Swansea City AFC Foundation that football used to make him angry. Four years…
CARMARTHEN: TfW wants the railway station to work better as a train-and-coach interchange
Transport for Wales has opened a survey on improving facilities at Carmarthen railway station and joining up the TrawsCymru coaches…
BURRY PORT: Chips, a 99 and Amelia Earhart: the new station wall that reads “every stop is a new beginning”
Seven panels have gone up at Pembrey and Burry Port station, spelling out a Welsh phrase one word at a…
FROM HOTEL TO HOME: Neath Port Talbot Council has bought 20 houses to get homeless people out of B&Bs
"When I was in the hotel I was surviving on pot noodles," says one of 27 people the council has…
SWANSEA BAY: Hospitals will be up to 140 beds short this winter, and there is no extra money to fix it
The health board's own plan says demand for medical beds will outstrip what it has from now until spring, even…
MENTAL HEALTH: Health board tells councillors half of Swansea Bay kids referred for specialist help sent elsewhere
CAMHS, the NHS mental health service for under-18s, told Swansea councillors in July that around one in two referrals is…
LITTLE WIND STREET: Makeover approved for Swansea’s nightlife lane
The murals come off, the street poles go, and a corroded-steel gateway goes up at the York Street end after…
SWANS: Fan zone plans lodged for behind the South Stand
Swansea City says work starts within days on the covered bar for more than 1,700 supporters it first showed in…
SWANSEA HOUSE PRICES: Mumbles down 5.7%, Castle up 7.8%, and the map that shows what your street sold for
The middle of the Swansea market barely moved in the year to April, up 1.5% to £203,000, according to a…