LLANELLI: Town’s Premier Inn goes up for sale with the Sandpiper as Whitbread seeks ‘whole site exit’
Whitbread has told Swansea Bay News it is marketing the hotel and the closed lakeside restaurant together as a going concern, with a number of interested parties already in talks.
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NEATH FAIR: Stalls from 9am, rides from 6pm as the Great Fair opens for its 746th year
The street fair takes over the town centre until Saturday night and the Milland Road funfair runs until Sunday, with a dry opening day on the forecast and a miniature…
CARDIFF AIRPORT: Passengers rank Welsh airport fifth best in the UK in Which? survey
Cardiff has been named a Which? Recommended Provider with a 77% customer score, taking five stars for security queues, passport control and cleanliness in a survey of more than 6,000…
MARLOES SANDS: Body found in search for boy, 15, who got into difficulty in the sea
Police say a body has been found more than a week after the teenager, who was on holiday from the Yorkshire area, went missing in the water at the Pembrokeshire…
FLIGHT CHAOS: New York and Shanghai jets end up in Cardiff as air traffic meltdown rolls into day two
A Virgin Atlantic Dreamliner from JFK and a British Airways 787 bound for Shanghai both spent Tuesday night in Wales. The knock-on effects run through today, and the NATS boss…
SWANSEA: ‘Believe it! Achieve it!’ Georgia, 22, honoured for inspiring young people with additional learning needs
Georgia Miggins, who wants to become a music therapy teacher, has been highly commended in the Inspire! Adult Learning Awards after rebuilding her confidence through an Essential Skills class in…
PORT TALBOT: From Brittany to Bro Dur, the rookie teachers starring in S4C’s new fly-on-the-wall series
Three newly qualified teachers at Ysgol Gymraeg Ystalyfera Bro Dur will be on screen from Wednesday as Athrawon follows eight newcomers through the highs and lows of their first year…
JAILED: Maesteg man sentenced to five years and three months for rape
Stephen Jones, 55, was convicted of rape and assault by penetration after a five-day trial, and was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.
MOUNT PLEASANT: ‘Bogeyman’ burglar back behind bars after stealing family’s car as they slept
Kevin Harmon, whose child victims over the years have feared him as the bogeyman, has almost 150 offences to his…
SKETTY: Claw hammer robber told terrified Co-op worker he had ‘respect’ for shopworkers
Christopher Barnett threatened to smash the man's head in before taking £276 and bottles of gin from the Gower Road…
TV SWITCH-OFF: Three in four Welsh adults want Senedd to oppose 2034 Freeview shutdown, poll finds
Polling for a campaign to save terrestrial TV finds most people in Wales doubt the broadband where they live could replace the aerial, and nine in ten Welsh speakers want…
PISA RESULTS: Wales still bottom of the UK class in every subject, as maths slides again
Wales scored lowest of the four UK nations in maths, reading and science in PISA 2025, with maths falling significantly…
JOBS: Work experience at Tesco, John Lewis and Costa on offer for young people on Universal Credit
A new scheme will offer 18 to 24-year-olds two to four weeks of hands-on experience with Britain's biggest retailers, as…
BURRY PORT: The land Tesco never built on is up for grabs, and a supermarket is back on the cards
Carmarthenshire Council is inviting developers to bid for the 3.7-acre field by the station, with its own planning advice saying a foodstore remains acceptable, 14 years after Tesco won permission…
TAKE BACK CONTROL: Swansea demands power to block new vape shops after Mansel Street raids
Councillors backed a call for England-style planning powers over vape shops as a cabinet member revealed six arrests in raids…
SWANSEA: Free sign language course for city centre staff opens for bookings after every student on the first passes
Bar staff, zoo keepers and marketing execs were among seven city centre workers who learned British Sign Language on Swansea…
TOM JONES: ‘There’s never a good time to fire an 86-year-old who’s still pretty good at his job’
Wales' most famous voice says ITV has fired him from The Voice after nine years in the red chair, and he is not going quietly.
NEATH: Gavin and Stacey star Larry Lamb to read his own poetry at the Gwyn Hall as arts festival returns
Four days of music, literature, art and heritage return to the town centre from 15 to 18 October, with a…
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER: Star Trek beams onto a Welsh-struck 50p for its 60th anniversary
The Royal Mint in Llantrisant has put the Vulcan salute on a collectable 50p, with a second coin carrying the…
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LLANELLI: Market traders push back on upstairs stalls, saying every one they asked said no
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SWANSEA: From 20 bags at Christmas to 150 a year, the Rucksack Appeal turns ten
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SELF-COOLING BEER: 91 years after Llanelli canned Britain’s first pint, a Welsh invention chills the can itself
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SWANSEA: Gang who stole £328,000 of cars to order sentenced as some vehicles surface in Cyprus
Sean McCabe orchestrated thefts of high-value cars across Wales and England that were re-plated and resprayed before being sold on,…
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Designs by a Pembrokeshire architecture practice show a reworked ground floor and a new first-floor mezzanine, and the council is…
MILFORD HAVEN: Boy who stabbed teacher in the head in school classroom detained for four and a half years
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named because of his age, was cleared of attempted murder but found guilty of wounding…
GOWER: Eight years after last orders, the Greyhound faces the bulldozers
Swansea councillors will decide on Tuesday whether the former Llanrhidian pub, once the spiritual home of the Gower Brewery, makes…
DATA CENTRES: A new industrial revolution is rising on south Wales’s old factory floors, and it arrives hungry and thirsty
The buildings that power AI are coming to the former Ford plant at Bridgend and the biomass works at Margam,…
SWANSEA: Gas emergency van that runs on hydrogen hits the roads in a 12-week trial
Wales & West Utilities is testing a prototype Ford Transit that leaves nothing behind but water vapour, refuelled with green…
PORTHCAWL: Man who ran into the sea to escape arrest is jailed for sexual offences
Officers followed Gavin Bennett into the dark water off Porthcawl seafront to bring him out. He has now been jailed…