ST HELEN’S: ‘This one truly is our own’: Ospreys ready to put a marker down in their first game at the rebuilt ground
Mark Jones and Sam Parry on what the players found at St Helen’s this week, the pitch they can’t fault, the Dragons getting changed in the Swansea RFC clubhouse, and…
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PATTI PAVILION: Swansea’s 1920 seafront hall to open seven days a week, with an eye on the St Helen’s crowd
No ticket needed: The Patti says it is getting a new look, new seating, drinks offers and a student discount, and wants to be the stop-off before and after the…
PORT TALBOT: Paul Potts comes home to open the rebuilt theatre, 20 years after Britain’s Got Talent
The tenor who won over the Britain’s Got Talent judges with Nessun Dorma will sing at Yr Aelwyd, the old Princess Royal. Its reopening has now slipped into 2027.
HELP FROM BEYOND: Swansea man asked his late dad for help. Days later, he won £1m
With Halloween a week away, Mark Francis says four words to his late father came days before his £1m EuroMillions win. He thinks his dad picked out the family home…
E-BIKE HIRE: Swansea’s 24-hour e-bikes arrive next week. Here’s what they’ll cost
Seventy are going out first, with 500 promised within a year. Here’s where you’ll find them, and what a ride costs once the free ones run out.
SWANSEA: ‘Come on Swansea, give me your very best’: Suzanne Shaw wants the boos as the Grand’s Wicked Queen
The Hear'Say singer has toured as Snow White but never played a baddie. Now she is the Wicked Queen at the Grand, with Swansea's Christian Patterson, who first saw panto…
BAGLAN: Port Talbot’s new vet is also an on-call firefighter who helped rescue dogs from a flooded sanctuary
Rebecca Madge’s Vets for Pets practice on Pentwyn Baglan Road has surgery, X-rays and its own lab, and its open day is today, from 9am to 3pm.
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BRIDGEND MURDER: Man charged with Eleanor Barnfield murder appears in court
He will appear at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday. The ambulance service has found no record of a 999 call from her phone, despite reports she was driving herself to…
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…
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,…
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…
STORM AUSTEN: 70mph gusts possible as the first named storm of the season hits south Wales on Friday
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…
AMMANFORD: Owain Wyn Evans admits ‘wobbles’ 19 days before his 400-mile Children in Need ride
The Radio 2 presenter told Sara Cox he has been doing everything Professor Greg Whyte tells him, but 400 miles through four nations in five days still does not feel…
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…
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,…
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LLANELLI: Young people can now walk in off the street for mental health support at a new café
There’s no referral and no waiting list at Y Stryd, which is open to anyone aged 11 to 24. Local…
SWANSEA: New city centre garden opens in memory of the council officer behind the arena
It links the Kingsway and Oxford Street, with trees, benches and a giant mural. His daughter says it’s somewhere for…
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A garden of crosses has gone up among the market stalls. From there, it’s just over three weeks to Remembrance…
SWANSEA: Man jailed for five months after filming sex act without woman’s consent
David Novac changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on 7 October, police say. He will be on the…
DYFATTY: London dealer who bit a police officer by the Matthew Street flats jailed for 32 months
Abdullah Saed, 25, had come from Penge to the tower blocks on Matthew Street with a car holding cocaine, cannabis,…
KILVEY HILL: Skyline fences off the ruins of a windmill first built in 1680
What's left of the old mill is now ringed by fencing as work on the gondola and luge attraction goes…