SWANSEA: The Great Welsh Marathon is leaving Pembrey for a loop of the city in October 2027
Front Runner Events is moving the race from Pembrey Country Park after more than ten years and wants 7,500 runners for Sunday 17 October 2027. The route, and the road…
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LLANELLI: 29,000 blood test patients since June as Canolfan Pentre Awel turns one
It opened a year ago on land where Llanelli once made tinplate. Here’s how the town has used it, and what’s still to come.
SWANSEA: Where to get your poppy, as the Royal British Legion appeal launches at Swansea Market
A garden of crosses has gone up among the market stalls. From there, it’s just over three weeks to Remembrance Sunday.
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 sex offenders' register for seven years.
MEIDRIM: Village school will close at Christmas after councillors vote it through
Ysgol Meidrim's 24 pupils move to Hafodwenog or Ysgol Griffith Jones in January, and Ysgol Y Fro, which has none left, shuts the same day. A year ago both were…
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, cash and a phone, police say. Seven days earlier, police…
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 on around it. Not much remains of a tower that…
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SWANS: Police investigate alleged racist abuse of Eom at Millwall
The game at the Den was stopped in the second half after a report of racist chanting towards the Swansea winger, who was warming up on the touchline. Vitor Matos…
SWANSEA: Knicker nicker jailed after lingerie raids on Ann Summers
Wayne Rogers helped himself to lingerie twice in four days, then went shopping for shirts, police say.
LLANELLI: Ysgol Pen Rhos pupils kept indoors all afternoon as bomb disposal team deals with suspected shell at the fly-plague waste site next door
The primary school told parents the find was well away from its 3G pitch and it was safe to stay…
ALN FUNDING: Plaid and Labour strike £60m deal to revive the budget that fell in July
Labour asked for £100m this year and walked away from £40m. The number the two sides have settled on sits between them, and it brings back everything else that fell…
SWANSEA: Council housing officers could get powers to shut ‘cuckooed’ homes and bar troublemakers
Swansea Council adopted the powers in 2018 and its housing service never built them into day-to-day work. Cabinet is now…
OSPREYS AND SCARLETS: Minister says she can’t save a region as Senedd fails to agree a single word on Welsh rugby’s future
Swansea's £5.1m for St Helen's, Carmarthenshire's £2.4m Scarlets loan and £13.5m of Welsh Government money were all put on the…
GOWERTON: Roofer Jacob Lovell crowned the best in Wales and the Midlands
Lovell Roofing's boss came home from Wolverhampton with a trophy, a bottle of champagne and a date in London next month.
SWANSEA: Thinking of starting a business? The council could cover your first £2,000 of costs in full
It’s one of four grants now open, worth up to £50,000 to firms already trading. Most cover half the cost,…
SA1: Swansea firms will be able to try out robots before they buy, at a new university hub
Boston Dynamics and ABB are among the names backing it. The point isn’t to build robots, it’s to help businesses…
SWANSEA: Three school friends turned a Princess Way corner shop into a nightclub. Next up, a coffee shop
Eighty people, shelves of noodles and soju, four hours of house and garage, and a waiting list. Now LibertySounds has booked its second unlikely venue.
SWANSEA: Brian Aldridge, Lilian and Jazzer bring The Archers to the arena for its 75th birthday
It's the only Welsh date on the tour, and the nights either side, in Exeter and Bath, have already sold…
COMEDY REVIEW: ‘A greatest hits album’ of characters, Harry Enfield and No Chums at Swansea Arena
Loadsamoney, Stavros, Kevin and Perry and a King Charles entrance: reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds the comedy legend's first solo show…
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AMMANFORD: Cocaine dealer jailed after police raid finds £5,500 cash in boxes and bags
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SPIKING: Five years after the Wind Street needle reports, Swansea’s bar staff, doormen and taxi drivers are invited to Wales’ first night-time safety summit
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SWANSEA: Every Remembrance date this year, from the poppy appeal launch to the Armistice Day silence
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CARMARTHEN: Man who spent the day hunting his ex-partner with a knife jailed for 24 years
He packed a kitchen knife before he left home, then spent the day looking for her. Detectives call what happened…
CLYNE GARDENS: The red Japanese Bridge is coming back, with repairs starting within weeks
Shut after inspectors found problems with the structure, the Grade II listed bridge is getting a new deck, new steel…
ADMIRAL: Some of the jobs being cut are set to move to India, but the insurer won’t say how many are Swansea’s
The insurer says everyone affected has been briefed and "location was not a consideration". What it will not give Swansea…
SWANSEA: How padel went from two courts to a national series in three years
Players from Open to Over 60 compete at Jaxx in Llansamlet this weekend as the UK Padel Masters Series opens.…
GORSEINON: Banking hub opens on High Street as Lloyds pushes last bank’s closure back to 2 November
The temporary hub at 20 High Street opened on Thursday, a month later than first announced. Lloyds, due to shut…