SKEWEN: New Bonnie Tyler mural revealed in the village she always called home
Jenks painted her in five days for the town council. The reason her face is split down the middle is in the brickwork.
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SWANSEA: Couple trade the sauna for sand dunes on 100km Sahara trek for Wales Air Ambulance
Rochelle Francis and Lee Roblin fly out this weekend. Their lift home, if it comes to that, might be a helicopter ride they won at auction and still have not…
SWANSEA: 560 missed bin collections a week, and the council says the rate is ‘very good’
Three in every thousand. That is the miss rate the council is quoting to councillors, and it adds up to a lot of bags left on the kerb.
YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: Cabinet gives go-ahead to 150-place special school
Llanelli's long-promised new special school has taken its biggest step yet. The argument has moved on from whether it gets built to whether it will be big enough.
ST HELEN’S ROAD: Two vape shops shut again as council vows to keep coming back
Test purchases found Swansea Market and Kubas Superstore still selling fake tobacco and illegal vapes. Both have been closed before, and the council says it will be back when the…
SWANSEA: Britain’s Got Talent winner Harry Moulding to headline Christmas magic show at the Patti
The Blackpool magician who won the ITV show last year is joining the Swansea-made show Phenomenal for four festive nights at the seafront hall.
SWANSEA: Three dog mess fines in three years, and the council has never sent out a patrol
The council's own figures to councillors: three £75 fines for dog fouling since 2024, no patrols, and one fly-tipping fine for every 106 dumps reported.
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KILVEY HILL: Woman, 87, among three charged after Skyline protest
Two women from Bishopston and St Thomas and a man from Caerphilly were arrested at the construction site on Sunday and are due before Swansea magistrates on 2 December. Campaigners…
BRYNAMMAN: Man who beat woman in the street while on bail for abusing his ex jailed for 52 months
Cameron Morgan broke the woman’s nose and jaw on Cwmgarw Road after she turned him down. Swansea Crown Court heard…
DYFATTY: Anti-social behaviour down 37% and 143 arrests as police hand the crackdown to the council
The Clear phase of Clear, Hold, Build is over after nine months. Police say drug trafficking reports fell by nearly…
SWANSEA: MP calls public meeting on the past, present and future of the city centre
The council leader, a Swansea-born think tank boss and the county archivist share the bill at a meeting on where the centre has been and where it is going. Book…
PORT TALBOT: Council clears up which bridge the Chancellor’s £11m is for, and says it’s a flood risk
It is the one under the canopy at the bottom of Station Road, and it has been standing since 1842.
DEVOLUTION: More tax powers for Wales now ‘a matter of how and when’, First Minister says after Burnham talks
Rhun ap Iorwerth came out of Glasgow saying the Prime Minister agrees Wales’ borrowing limits have to change. He also…
PYLE: Engineering firm that left Baglan Energy Park has almost doubled its turnover, and picked up a Wales growth award
Seventeen jobs moved over the county line to Village Farm. Two years on, the firm is helping an overseas manufacturer work out how to build modular homes by the thousand.
ST HELEN’S ROAD: Asia Vape shut for a second time in a year as three more Swansea vape shops are closed
Magistrates have closed Vape City and Asia Vape on St Helen’s Road and Vape Zone on Dilwyn Street, the council…
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…
CATHERINE ZETA JONES: ‘Give me a little bit’: Michael Douglas gets his Swansea wife to tap dance on the bathroom floor
The 82-year-old told Heart Breakfast what he loves most about life at home with the childhood tap champion from Mumbles. He also had a line about Kathleen Turner.
MORRISTON: Traitors star joins mental health patients on the farm behind the hospital that saved him
Andrew Jenkins harvested veg with inpatients from Tawe Clinic at Cae Felin, the seven-acre farm hidden behind Morriston Hospital.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘A play about nothing and a play about everything’, Swansea Little Theatre’s Under Milk Wood at the Dylan Thomas Theatre
Dylan Thomas's play for voices returns to the theatre that bears his name, where the writer himself was a member…
REMEMBRANCE: Trains join the buses in going free for veterans and serving forces, with one extra day
SWANSEA: Council says it’s filled 2,300 potholes since April as its £14m road repair blitz continues
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WELSH LIB DEMS: Cwm Tawe MP David Chadwick to stand for leader as Jane Dodds steps down
Nobody else is eligible to stand. He says the party has to stop thinking and acting like a minor one.
SWANSEA: Children’s Commissioner opens city centre office to reach children who don’t know where to turn
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SWANSEA: ‘It’s home from home’: CBeebies’ Rebecca Keatley is back at the Grand as Snow White
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