SWANSEA MOSQUE: Energy savings to fund winter warm packs for food bank users
The centre on St Helen’s Road is getting battery storage and a new heating system. It also runs a baby bank and youth activities.
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BBC: BBC Three to go off air as a TV channel next spring, with Radio 4 Extra closing too
BBC Three's programmes move to iPlayer and YouTube, and Radio 4 Extra's to BBC Sounds, as the corporation looks for £500 million of savings by 2028.
YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: Four pupils have died in six months, says councillor, and still no nurse
Health chiefs could give no guarantee and no deadline for a nurse at the Llanelli special school, campaigners say, and one mum says children like her son "should not have…
BRIDGEND: Woman, 47, dies and man, 61, arrested on suspicion of murder after Coity Road crash
Police say the 47-year-old driver's injuries were not caused by the crash. A 61-year-old man is in custody after an overnight operation at Ger-y-nant.
STORM AUSTEN: 70mph gusts possible as the first named storm of the season hits south Wales on Friday
A yellow wind warning covers Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire from the early hours, and forecasters say it could still change before then.
SWANSEA: Wales’ ‘haunted house’ capital, but that bump in the night is probably your boiler
More than a third of the city’s homes were built before 1930, and over half have poorly insulated walls, according to an engineering firm’s Halloween index.
FREE BUSES: Swansea’s buses are free on 19 days this Christmas, starting on parade weekend
Free travel starts in time for Santa and runs right through to New Year's Eve, but there is a cut-off time to beat and a short list of buses that…
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GLAIS: Family’s tribute to ‘heart of gold’ motorcyclist Wayne Bowron, 52, who died in A4067 crash
His family say he would do anything for anyone and loved the friends he made through motorcycling. Police want dashcam footage from the A4067 near Glais Roundabout on the night…
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…
MORRISTON: Two vape shops shut down after undercover officers bought illegal vapes and fake tobacco
Four people were arrested and a suspected delivery vehicle seized in the raids that followed, Swansea Council says.
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…
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.
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…
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,…
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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HEATING OIL: Prices are back above the spring peak as winter starts, and suppliers are to be regulated for the first time
Around 100,000 Welsh homes off the gas grid buy their heating with fewer protections than anyone on a mains supply.…
KILVEY HILL: The Skyline site’s bare slopes are being sprayed green to grow a meadow
Crews are hosing a mix of seed, mulch and nutrients onto the ground stripped for the gondola and luge. It's…
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Shane Richards was taken on to get rid of plasterboard and plaster from an address in Treherbert. It turned up…
HAFOD: Two men jailed for more than 12 years between them after a heroin and crack deal in a parked car
He got out of the car with two ounces of heroin and two of crack cocaine. He didn’t get far.
STRICTLY: Swansea’s Melanie Walters is out, a week later than she thought she would be
Three of the four judges saved Shaun Wright-Phillips in Sunday’s dance-off. Gwen signed off in Welsh, and Stacey had something…
SCHOOL CLOSURES: Four more Carmarthenshire village schools face the axe, three of them in the Gwendraeth Valley
Blaenau was saved five years ago. Carway's children haven't been inside their own school for more than a year. Now…