MUMBLES: Builders move in at Verdi’s as Giuseppe says the café could be back between Easter and summer
He was in tears among the smoke-stained tables in August. Now the man who helped build Verdi’s is back at Knab Rock in a hard hat, and the firm doing…
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AMMANFORD: Owain Wyn Evans rides into Cardiff with £3.85 million raised
The teacher who stood up for a boy with a pink Care Bears lunchbox was waiting at the finish.
BRYNHYFRYD: Primary pupils cut the ribbon on new Tesco Express on Eaton Road
You can post a parcel or pick up a coffee at the new shop on Eaton Road until 10pm.
SWANSEA: Amy Dillwyn diaries scholar and Bay Campus chip scientist win Wales’s first medals of their kind
One works on the diaries of the woman the park by the Arena is named after. The other came back from Australia to the department where he started.
MORRISTON: Tributes paid to PC Tony Phipps, who served the east side of Swansea for 38 years
He spent his whole career answering calls in the same communities, and taught the job to many who followed.
CHRISTMAS CONCERT: Brand-new orchestra plays its first show at Swansea Minster
It only started rehearsing in September. Its first audience will be at the Minster, with choirs alongside.
OPINION: ‘The little things are nothing of the kind’, Torsten Bell MP on the politics of the everyday
Swansea West MP and Pensions Minister Torsten Bell on rusting spikes in Parc Llewelyn, noisy buses, and why he says small fixes matter as much as big reforms.
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MICROSOFT OUTAGE: From trains to prescriptions, how south west Wales has been hit by global tech glitch
Tried to report something online and got nowhere? Here is what still works, and which number to ring.
MORRISTON: Two more arrests over Clase Road firearms incident as charged man is remanded
Five people have now been arrested, and detectives still want dashcam footage from the roads around Asda.
MORRISTON: Man charged with affray after Clase Road incident, two others bailed
He is due before magistrates in Swansea today, and detectives want dashcam footage from four roads around Asda.
SENEDD BOYCOTT: Gareth Beer misses his GP closures question to back Reform MS barred from speaking
The Sir Gaerfyrddin MS says disagreement “should be met with discussion, not silence”. His question to the Health Minister on GP surgery closures went unasked.
BUS FARES: £7m to stop the price of diesel pushing up what you pay on the bus
The money covers school and community transport too, and there are three ways it runs out.
SWANSEA: MP calls public meeting on the past, present and future of the city centre
The council leader, a Swansea-born think tank boss and the county archivist share the bill at a meeting on where…
SWANSEA: Building society’s finance director Nathan Griffiths becomes deputy chief executive
The city’s own mutual is planning for its next generation of leaders, and it now needs a new finance director.
ST HELEN’S ROAD: Two vape shops shut again as council vows to keep coming back
Test purchases found Swansea Market and Kubas Superstore still selling fake tobacco and illegal vapes. Both have been closed before,…
PYLE: Engineering firm that left Baglan Energy Park has almost doubled its turnover, and picked up a Wales growth award
Seventeen jobs moved over the county line to Village Farm. Two years on, the firm is helping an overseas manufacturer…
LAUGHARNE: Dylan Thomas Boathouse shuts for two months for £77,000 revamp
The poet’s last home is closed to visitors until the new year while its top floor is refitted around families, touchscreens and a tour you can take from your sofa.
PENCLAWDD: Sir Karl Jenkins hands his scores and papers to the National Library of Wales
The scores still carry his own handwritten notes. From early next year, anyone will be able to go and see…
AMMANFORD: Owain Wyn Evans wobbles back into Wales after a fall, as his ride passes £1 million
He came off his bike on a hill yesterday and his knee is hurting. Today’s route saves a mountain for…
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