NEATH PORT TALBOT: Council leader Steve Hunt quits and admits he got so drunk he fell over
Cllr Steve Hunt says he had already decided to step down for personal reasons before a coalition meeting about his conduct. He denies claims he bragged about drinking a bottle…
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DEREK THE WEATHER: The forecaster who walked Three Cliffs and the Llanrhidian marsh is signing off at Christmas
After nearly 30 years of "shwmae" and "nos da" on Wales Today, Derek Brockway says he will leave BBC Wales at the end of the year. Gower has had him…
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 planners sent the first design back as "a pastiche". Swansea…
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 April, with December the target and the memorial garden's footprint…
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 street-by-street analysis of Land Registry sales. Underneath, the coast fell…
LITTER: You could be fined for rubbish thrown from your car even if you weren’t in it, and fly-tippers could face £5,000
The Welsh Government is asking whether the person a car is registered to should pay for whatever comes out of its window, and whether the on-the-spot fine for fly-tipping should…
ST HELEN’S: Floodlights on the ground, sand on the pitch and the old terrace stripped bare, 15 days from the first game
Paul Rogers' photographs from the ground on Tuesday show the new floodlight columns being fitted flat on the pitch before they are raised, sand going into the artificial surface, steel…
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LLANGUNNOR: Stabbing threat report led police to £118,000 of drugs, a zombie knife and an axe
Cameron Davies, 23, has been jailed for two years and ten months. Police say they traced two vehicles to an address linked to him minutes after a driver was chased…
CHILD EXPLOITATION: Couple jailed after woman arranged for child to be sexually exploited by man she knew would abuse her
Victoria Lewis, 40, from Neath, was found guilty at trial of arranging a child's sexual exploitation and jailed for four…
BRIDGEND MURDER: Family remember ‘extraordinary’ Tracey as husband found guilty of killing her
The family of Tracey Davies say they will “never come to terms” with losing a woman whose laughter could light…
SWANSEA: Beachfront and Dyfatty brought under street rules as cabinet backs e-bike crackdown
Swansea Council's Cabinet has agreed a new three-year Public Spaces Protection Order reaching the Promenade, foreshore, Civic Centre grounds, the western Marina and Dyfatty, with a new condition aimed at…
NEW WDA: Capital One co-founder and Airbus boss join ports chief on panel designing Wales’s development agency
Ten unpaid advisers will help shape the body ministers say will halve Wales's productivity gap, with a first report due…
CARMARTHENSHIRE: Double-digit council tax rise warning as £32m gap opens
Finance chiefs say next year needs £13m of cuts and a 5% rise just to balance, and they have found…
BURRY PORT: Tributes to Amcanu boss Owain Davies, 55, killed in Swiss Alps plane crash
The managing director of the Burry Port engineering firm was a passenger in a light aircraft that came down near Leukerbad on Tuesday. He was a Wales Air Ambulance trustee,…
LLANSAMLET: Steel firm puts 699 solar panels on its roof and says the bills will repay it in four years
Afon Engineering on Swansea Vale Business Park is spending £250,000 on a rooftop array it says will cut its power…
BRIDGEND: First M&S in the county borough planned for Waterton Road
An M&S Food, a new Aldi and a Costa drive-through are lined up for the old car lot off the…
LIVE MUSIC REVIEW: ‘Stirred rather than shaken’, Q The Music’s James Bond Concert Spectacular at the Grand
Former Miss Moneypenny Caroline Bliss comperes as Q The Music bring their James Bond Concert Spectacular to Swansea Grand Theatre, and reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds a talented band, three distinct…
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘A heartfelt love letter’ with ‘tremendous potential’, Cooper The Musical at the Grand’s Arts Wing
Stefan Pejic is 'very convincing' as Tommy Cooper in his own new musical at Swansea Grand Theatre's Arts Wing, but…
SINGLETON LIVE: Simply Red named first headliner for Singleton Park, and it’s their only Welsh show of 2027
Mick Hucknall's band play the park on Friday 20 August 2027, with Lisa Stansfield and M People's Heather Small on…
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GOWERTON: Bats, dormice and otters put back on the table for 216 homes, but the council says nothing on traffic
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SWANSEA UNIVERSITY: Arms jobs pledge dropped as uni joins MoD defence alliance its staff union voted against
A promise not to market weapons industry jobs to students has gone from Swansea University's careers policy. The university is…
NARBERTH: Fire and Ice’s passion fruit sorbet is the best thing made in Wales this year
The small-batch sorbet that took three Great Taste stars at Fire and Ice's first entry in six years has now…
OSPREYS: ‘I’ll take it with both hands’: Foketi settling fast after Wallaby switch to Swansea
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CARMARTHENSHIRE: Schools’ £16m deficit could push council into the red
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A teaser released this morning, 626 years to the day since Glyndŵr was proclaimed Prince of Wales, shows the Port…
SENEDD: Reform Wales leader Dan Thomas quits four months in, saying he was reported to police and released without charge
The man who led Reform to 34 seats in May and became leader of the opposition has stood down “due…
NEATH: Cameras are going up around the town centre next week, and the council says they are not looking at you
A three-week traffic study starts next week with temporary cameras and survey kit at points around Neath town centre. No…
SWANSEA: Meet Martha, the two-year-old with the pink cane who is the star of Guide Dogs’ new TV advert
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