MUMBLES: Verdi’s aims for an Easter return, but the owner warns it could be summer
Insurers have accepted liability for July's fire at the Knab Rock café and the hunt is on for a contractor to strip it out. Until then, the Verdi's team and…
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YSTRADGYNLAIS: Man hit with £1,200-plus bill for dumping household junk on Gwrhyd mountain road
Wayne Thompson's rubbish was found on the open hillside above Rhiwfawr. His fine was £440, just £40 more than a council can hand out on the spot, as Wales weighs…
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 Thomas. The council's new five-year plan agrees there's "huge, untapped…
CASTLE SQUARE: Swansea is looking for someone to run the cafés in its new gardens
The council has started looking for café and restaurant operators for the two pavilions going up in Castle Square Gardens, as steelwork for the first rises on site. The builders…
CARMARTHEN: Former teacher cleared of 2001 rape as jury fails to reach verdicts on two other allegations
Daniel Gravell was found not guilty of raping a teenager at his family home near Carmarthen. The jury was discharged after failing to reach verdicts on allegations from 2005 and…
SWANSEA: The seasonal temp who joined Amazon in 2010 is now running the whole Swansea warehouse
Chris Bailey started at the Swansea fulfilment centre as a seasonal associate while finishing a master's degree. Sixteen years on, the Swansea-born manager has been named its new site leader.
LLANELLI: Visiting restricted at Prince Philip Hospital as scabies outbreak shuts wards
Hywel Dda has restricted visiting at the Llanelli hospital since Sunday, with a number of wards closed by infection. The Minor Injury Unit is not affected, and patients whose planned…
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JAILED: Sandfields man gets 16 years for raping a girl of 12
James Miller, 49, sexually abused the same victim between 1993 and 2001. She reported him to police in 2023, and he has now been given a special custodial sentence.
CYBER ATTACK: Dyfed-Powys Police hit, and the force still can’t say whether staff data was accessed
A regional cyber-crime unit is investigating after the attack took down online and email contact with the force for a…
LLANELLI: Unlicensed taxi driver who drove children with additional learning needs to school fined £2,700
Derrick Lewis was caught driving pupils in a licensed private hire car during a council spot check at Ysgol Heol…
SWANSEA: Council plans to drain £22m from savings pots meant for crematorium repairs and school IT to cover staff equal pay claims
The money was put aside for things like crematorium repairs, the bus station and school IT. Councillors are being asked next Thursday to move it into a fund for equal…
SWANSEA: Francesca O’Brien takes the council’s £13.7m overspend to the Senedd and asks for the ALN cash to go straight to councils
The Gŵyr Abertawe MS put the spending freeze and the reserves to the education minister on Wednesday. Anna Brychan said…
YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: Health minister said 2027. Education minister says no timescale. Still no nurse
Parents at the Llanelli special school were told in August that the rules on who does medical tasks in schools…
SWANSEA: Leeds Building Society promises its branch will stay open until at least 2031, as banks keep leaving
The mutual says all 51 of its branches, Swansea included, will stay open every weekday with no appointment needed. It comes as NatWest's Llanelli and Port Talbot branches were due…
CARMARTHEN: Food wholesaler heads for a record £75m year as Gower Gin’s ‘Baby Guinness’ liqueur makes its Christmas brochure
Harlech Foodservice, which supplies pubs, restaurants, schools and hospitals from its Carmarthen depot, says festive pre-orders are up 1,100% in…
MANUFACTURING: Seven bosses from Llanelli to Bridgend named among the 130 people “shaping the future” of UK industry
Make UK's new 130 Honours, out on National Manufacturing Day, include the heads of Gower Chemicals, EBS Automation, Rototherm and…
AMMANFORD: Owain Wyn Evans swaps the drumsticks for a bike on a 400-mile Children in Need ride
The Ammanford-raised Radio 2 presenter will cycle nearly 400 miles through all four UK nations in five days this November, finishing in Cardiff, weeks before he takes to the stage…
PORT TALBOT: Town of Culture bid gets a new chair, with £3m at stake and until 30 November to make the case
Gemma Charnock, a vice principal at NPTC Group of Colleges, will chair the partnership behind Port Talbot's UK Town of…
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘More than warrants the hype’, Operation Mincemeat at Swansea Grand
Five actors, 20 songs, 24 awards and a dead Welshman: reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds the Olivier-winning musical lives up to…
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The Global Centre of Rail Excellence at Onllwyn was meant to open last year with up to 1,000 jobs. This…
SWANSEA: The Kicks kid who couldn’t keep his temper on the pitch played for Wales in Mexico
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CARMARTHEN: TfW wants the railway station to work better as a train-and-coach interchange
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BURRY PORT: Chips, a 99 and Amelia Earhart: the new station wall that reads “every stop is a new beginning”
Seven panels have gone up at Pembrey and Burry Port station, spelling out a Welsh phrase one word at a…
FROM HOTEL TO HOME: Neath Port Talbot Council has bought 20 houses to get homeless people out of B&Bs
"When I was in the hotel I was surviving on pot noodles," says one of 27 people the council has…
MENTAL HEALTH: Health board tells councillors half of Swansea Bay kids referred for specialist help sent elsewhere
CAMHS, the NHS mental health service for under-18s, told Swansea councillors in July that around one in two referrals is…
LITTLE WIND STREET: Makeover approved for Swansea’s nightlife lane
The murals come off, the street poles go, and a corroded-steel gateway goes up at the York Street end after…
SWANS: Fan zone plans lodged for behind the South Stand
Swansea City says work starts within days on the covered bar for more than 1,700 supporters it first showed in…
ST HELEN’S: Floodlights on the ground, sand on the pitch and the old terrace stripped bare, 15 days from the first game
Paul Rogers' photographs from the ground on Tuesday show the new floodlight columns being fitted flat on the pitch before…
SWANSEA: Foster carers quitting faster than they join as children’s home placements double
Foster Wales Swansea lost 20 carers last year and signed up 11, and the council's own annual report shows fostering…
SWANSEA: Free street food festival back on Museum Green next weekend, with 20 traders and no two selling the same thing
Big Food Festival runs from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 September at Museum Green, next to the National Waterfront Museum.…