LLANELLI: Aldi wants you to lobby for a new store, 16 months after it shut the one in town
The company is asking residents to write to Carmarthenshire Council backing its Sandy Road plan, publishing figures from its own survey showing 86% support. It closed its Swanfield Place store…
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ST HELEN’S: The Ospreys have a date. The Dragons on 24 October, then Cardiff a week later
Swansea Council has named the day the Ospreys will finally play at their new home, with the artificial pitch going down this week and the floodlights going up. The club…
ASSISTED DYING: The law will not change, and Swansea’s MP says that is not the end of it
MPs rejected the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Friday afternoon, so for people in Swansea Bay facing a terminal diagnosis the law tomorrow is the law it…
LANDORE: The timbers are coming out at the Bascule Bridge, with the span due back next year
Work has started on the last phase at Landore, with the river supports being replaced before the 70-tonne steel span is craned back into place. It returns to a stretch…
£1 BUS FARES: Nine million journeys in, the £1 ticket for under-22s is staying until 2027
The £1 single and £3 day ticket for 5 to 21-year-olds has been extended to March 2027, with more than nine million journeys made since it launched, according to the…
CYMRAEG AI: Ministers try again to teach artificial intelligence to speak Welsh
The Welsh Government is handing data, resources and expertise to a London AI company whose flagship model was built to write computer code. Labour ministers made a near-identical announcement with…
JAILED: Capel Dewi man shared films of children being raped in Telegram group infiltrated by undercover officer
Michael Fox, 55, set up the group chat where he distributed three films of girls aged between eight and 11, Swansea Crown Court heard, and was caught when an undercover…
LLANELLI: MP calls for noise cameras at North Dock’s night-time ‘racetrack’
Dame Nia Griffith is urging Carmarthenshire County Council and Dyfed-Powys Police to install acoustic cameras, bollards and night barriers at North Dock, five months after police promised stepped-up spring patrols…
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…
RESOLVEN: ‘Raise a glass for Robert’ – a mother’s last appeal on the eve of her missing son’s 40th birthday
Robert Williams was 15 when he vanished in March 2002. Tomorrow he would have turned 40, and his mother Cheryl…
SENEDD: The seats Wales voted in for the first time in May are already being redrawn, and the names could change too
The Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru has begun the 2030 review of the 16 constituencies used for the first time four months ago, under new rules that free it from…
SWANSEA: Disabled people waiting ‘unacceptable’ times for home adaptations, council report admits
Demand for the grants that pay for stairlifts, ramps and wet rooms "cannot be controlled", Swansea Council's own performance report…
SWANSEA: Nine social homes recovered and £1.2m identified in council fraud crackdown
Swansea Council's fraud team says it identified £1.2m in overpayments and savings in 2025/26, prosecuted four cases and investigated 13…
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 the sector promises 100,000 jobs for young people not in…
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…
SWANSEA: Jazz festival takes a bow after ‘most successful ever’ run, closed by the man who started it all
Four days, more than 50 free gigs, jazz cruises up the Tawe, and a Sunday finale from the Cottle Brothers, 51 years after Dave Cottle first played Swansea Jazz Club.
SWANSEA: A giant cat now prowls the wall by the Kardomah, as the Muriau Mawr trail grows
Gareth Lye's new mural stands more than 11 metres high on Park Street, designed with young people from Circus Eruption.…
SWANSEA BLITZ: Sold-out play takes 5,000 children from the stage to the city’s real gas masks
Theatr na nÓg's It'll All Be Over by Christmas opens at the Dylan Thomas Theatre this week with every school…
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SINGLETON LIVE: Big-name concerts return to Singleton Park in 2027, and every act promised as a Wales exclusive
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PISA RESULTS: Wales still bottom of the UK class in every subject, as maths slides again
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OWAIN GLYNDŴR DAY: Kids go free at Kidwelly Castle and Cadw sites across Wales this Sunday
Under-17s get free entry to every Cadw monument on Sunday 13 September, including castles besieged during Glyndŵr's 15-year uprising against…
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SWANSEA: City name-checked alongside Oxford and Cambridge in new Chancellor’s first big speech
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HOTEL HUNT: Premier Inn wants new hotels in Mumbles, Carmarthen and Milford Haven
The owner of Premier Inn has named Mumbles, Carmarthen and the Milford Haven and Pembroke area among the places it…
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