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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OSPREYS: Bonus point the only consolation as Sharks overpower Ospreys in Durban
A 41-24 defeat in South Africa made it two opening-weekend losses in a row for the Ospreys, though four tries, including Liam Wright's on debut, earned something from the trip.
AMPUTATION: ‘I didn’t want to leave the house’: the crash survivor a new Morriston course got living again
Former soldier Brad Griffiths lost his right arm in a three-lorry crash near Whitland. A new online course for amputees at Morriston Hospital's limb centre, and the people he met…
CARMARTHEN: ‘Jobs not rubble’ campaigners want the old Wilko saved for a trampoline park
Buzz Parks says it would spend its own money turning the empty Friars Park store into a family entertainment centre, and has had very little response from the council in…
PWLL: The sea wrecked the council’s fishing lakes. Now they’re a nature reserve
The council dug the Pwll lakes for anglers, then the sea got in. Twenty-five years on, the brackish lagoon it left behind is getting Local Nature Reserve status.
SWANSEA: The seafront Covid memorial is finished, and it’s a place for anyone to sit and remember
Sculpted steel, three circles of coloured glass inspired by the peacock butterfly, and seats facing the bay. The memorial near the Slip Bridge was unveiled in front of groups representing…
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.
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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 period. Dyfed-Powys Police says 999 and 101 were never affected,…
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…
BRIDGEND: Man, 21, jailed for raping woman who told him ‘we’re not having sex’
Daffydd Piper ignored the woman's repeated refusals, then told her by Snapchat "I'm sorry, I should have stopped" before claiming…
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…
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…
BRIDGEND: TGJones closing-down posters go up in the Rhiw, the second of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go
The shop that was WHSmith until last year has "store closing down, everything must go" posters in its windows at…
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 all of it at the Grand this week. It runs…
ANTHONY HOPKINS: Margam-born star tells a tale from hell in first trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Wife & Dog
The 88-year-old plays the head of the wealthy Fairbank family, whose fight over the succession turns to betrayal and murder,…
LIVE MUSIC REVIEW: ‘Stirred rather than shaken’, Q The Music’s James Bond Concert Spectacular at the Grand
Former Miss Moneypenny Caroline Bliss comperes as Q The Music bring their James Bond Concert Spectacular to Swansea Grand Theatre,…
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