MUMBLES: Businessman’s alternative padel plan would use £400,000 of his own money, so the council doesn’t have to
He wants a long lease on the old seafront tennis courts in return, and says he would run them either way. He has written to the council and its councillors,…
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SWANSEA: Wear Wally brings back its 10-mile race for the running club’s 10th birthday
Forget the red and white stripes. In Swansea, Wally wears green and white.
MILFORD HAVEN: Former Puma fuel terminal to shut down commercial operations at the end of December
Staff are in consultation and a wind-down of up to two years will follow, but the company says the green hydrogen plant planned for the same site is not affected.
CARMARTHENSHIRE: Blue bags end for a third of homes on Monday 2 November
The switch to colour-coded recycling sacks starts, mainly in the west of the county. Your letter this month confirms your start date, and any change to your bin day.
SWANSEA: No UK city recycles more, new green league table shows
The city came sixth of 94 for green living, ahead of Cardiff and Bristol. Its air scored well too, a year after another study said the opposite.
TALKTALK: What BT’s rescue means for your broadband, bills and money
TalkTalk's 2.5 million customers should stay connected while the business moves to BT, but anyone owed money is being told to keep their paperwork.
PONTARDAWE: Crash survivor Cian, 11, plans to walk up Pen y Fan 10 times in 24 hours
He was two when a crash killed his mum and unborn sister. On Friday night, his fundraising for the people who helped him earned a Child of Wales award.
MAYHILL: Police investigate after toddler gets out of nursery, and a stranger says she found him in the road
A woman driving up Gors Avenue says she found two-year-old Noah walking alone in the middle of the road. Seren Fach Day Nursery is reported to dispute that he reached…
JOG ON: 68% of women runners in South Wales say they’ve been harassed mid-run
Catcalls, horns, cars crawling alongside, and worse. South Wales Police is taking its campaign to parkruns and running clubs, with…
BRIDGEND MURDER: Husband who strangled Tracey Davies at their Cefn Cribwr home jailed for life
Michael Davies, 57, must serve at least 14 years. Tracey's family say no sentence will ever reflect the one they…
ADMIRAL: Nearly 2,000 Swansea staff still don’t know if their jobs are among the 500 to go
Swansea's council leader has written to the insurer's UK boss demanding "urgent clarification", as a Swansea MS tells the Senedd the cuts are "completely optional" for a company he says…
COST OF LIVING: People are turning down jobs because they can’t afford the fuel to get there, council’s own team tells inquiry
Swansea Council's employment mentors say clients have rejected job offers over the cost of getting to work, cannot afford the…
ENERGY BILLS: VAT scrapped from electricity – but you’ll still pay more
A typical home keeps around £45 a year it would otherwise have paid, a little more in south Wales. Whether…
SWANSEA: The earring maker who still takes cash at markets, and the hour it costs her to bank it
Ellie Jones sells handmade earrings at markets across Wales around a full-time job. Cash saves her the card fees. Banking it can cost her an hour. She has chosen cash,…
SWANSEA: SPAR replaces university’s longstanding Costcutter
The Singleton campus shop has kept its existing team, with additional paid student roles announced and a wider food range…
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…
SWANSEA: Five Strictly legends are bringing Las Vegas to the arena this Friday
Fans keep telling them they wish they were still on Strictly, James Jordan says. On Friday, Swansea gets all five of them on one stage.
SWANSEA: Love Actually is coming to the arena with a full live orchestra this Christmas
Swansea has the only Welsh date on the 14-stop UK tour. Miss it, and the nearest alternative is Bath.
UPLANDS: Told at nine she couldn’t sing, Maryann wrote her own anthem and sang it at the Royal Welsh College
Maryann Enereba was sent out of a school music practice in Nigeria for not being able to sing. Now the…
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MUMBLES: Padel courts to replace the old seafront tennis courts, and the car park is coming back
Three fenced courts between the Oyster House and the bowling green, a car park with charging bays and a path…
CELEBRITY TRAITORS: Michael Sheen starts as favourite to win, and the bookies think he’ll be handed a cloak too
The Port Talbot actor walks into the castle on Thursday night at 7/2, shorter than the 6/1 he opened at…
GORSEINON: The workies that served the town for 100 years is being knocked down for houses
It shut just before Christmas 2023 with a "heartbreaking" post to its members, and went under the hammer. Now the…
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Wilf Tovey races for Wales in the ILCA 7 and spends his spare minutes in the boat park helping younger…
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.…
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…
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…
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…