BEACH BBQ WARNING: ‘I had to be carried off the beach’ as burns unit reports rise in injuries
Two people who put their disposable barbecues out and moved them aside were still badly burned by the sand underneath, one of them unable to walk properly for months. Morriston's…
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GARDEN VILLAGE: Council buys 141 homes at new estate, 70 for the housing waiting list
Swansea Council has bought the affordable homes at Persimmon's Garden Village development outright, the first time it has done so, with 71 to be sold to first-time buyers below market…
LANDORE: New floors go into the copperworks ruin that could become a 100-seat restaurant
The Laboratory Building is getting floors for the first time in decades. It is one of six schemes now under way at Hafod-Morfa and along the Tawe, from a bridge…
LLANELLI: ‘Jewel in the crown’ park left to decay, says Labour councillor
The duck pond at Parc Howard has run dry, the bandstand is fenced off and Graham the goose has been rehomed. Cllr Shaun Greaney is asking residents to sign a…
SWANSEA: City’s university and hospitals get major mobile boost as part of £11bn upgrade scheme
New equipment has been switched on at Swansea University's two campuses and at Morriston and Singleton hospitals, promising faster internet and clearer calls for anyone on Vodafone or Three.
NHS DENTISTRY: Only half the expected NHS work being done in Wales since April shake-up, dentists warn
Charges went up on 1 April and check-ups moved further apart. Four months on, the British Dental Association says NHS dental activity across Wales is running at around half the…
SWANSEA: The summer wellbeing sessions being run inside Minecraft
More than 30 children with additional learning needs are expected to take part, after Swansea Council put money behind a pilot that ran earlier this year.
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RANEEM’S LAW: Domestic abuse specialist to sit inside Dyfed-Powys 999 control room from August
Dyfed-Powys Police is one of twelve forces in the second wave of the Home Office scheme named after Raneem Oudeh, with a Calan DVS adviser embedded in the force's communication…
PORT TALBOT: ‘Cowardly’ trio sentenced over violent robbery that left man in hospital
Two 19-year-olds have been locked up and a teenage boy given a referral order over a November attack in which…
CARMARTHEN: Man guilty of attempted murder after spending the day hunting his ex-partner
James McKenna packed a 30cm kitchen knife, then spent 29 January moving between the places Joanne Sidaway might be. "I…
HOLIDAY LETS: 182-day tax rule could be eased as ministers launch review
A 12-week consultation asks whether the threshold deciding if a holiday let pays business rates or council tax should come down, with five new exemptions on the table and any…
UPLANDS: Leaf boat move should have paid for Victoria Park toilets, says councillor
Cllr Peter May says he welcomes the Leaf Boat's new Cwmdonkin Park home, but argues the money he challenged at…
LLANELLI: Coastguard volunteers keep call-out pay as minister confirms U-turn to town’s MP
The Department for Transport has scrapped September's move to an "expenses-only" volunteer model — with the minister telling Dame Nia…
ARGOS SOLD: The eight south west Wales stores caught up in the £120m deal
Sainsbury's has agreed to sell Argos to a new company set up by three retail veterans, a decade after buying the chain for £1.4bn. Six standalone branches and two in-store…
SWANSEA: New grants offer up to £30,000 to open a shop or café in communities across the city
Swansea Council has launched two grants through its £10m Economic Growth Fund: up to £30,000 towards opening premises in the…
SWANSEA: Waterfront Beefeater up for sale — as two more local restaurants set to become Premier Inn rooms
The Waterfront Beefeater on Prince of Wales Dock has been listed for sale. Of Whitbread's four Swansea Bay restaurants, two…
SWANSEA: ‘Do people want to see me live?’ Queen’s Roger Taylor ahead of his arena show
The Queen drummer closes his Violence Insane in a Beautiful World tour at Swansea Building Society Arena on 29 September, and in a new interview he talks kindness, a South…
LEAF BOAT: Castle Square’s missing sculpture is heading for Dylan Thomas’s park
Six months after it was lifted out of Castle Square, Swansea's Leaf Boat sculpture has a new permanent berth —…
GOWER: Swansea Sound weatherman John ‘The Weather’ Powell dies aged 92
The voice behind Swansea Sound's morning forecasts for almost 35 years, broadcasting from the weather station studio at his Penmaen…
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