SWANSEA: M&S needs 300 parking spaces at the door to come back, council leader says
The council leader has spelled out what a full M&S would need to return to the city. The Debenhams names, he says, are close.
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MUMBLES: Council to look at cheaper parking, but leader warns change could come with ‘consequences’
Swansea Council leader says he’d look at cheaper Mumbles parking options, but warns changes could come with ‘consequences’.
ABERAVON: Dogs could get more of the beach back, but be kept on leads on the prom all year
More than 2,000 people responded. Dog owners saw it very differently from everyone else.
PORT TALBOT: Woman who ignored fly-tipping investigators handed £1,637 bill
It was not the dumped rubbish that put Danielle Rigdon in court. It was the calls, letters, home visit and legal notice she did not answer.
AMMANFORD: Woman who spent almost 14 years trying for a baby turns her story into a memoir
In April she decided to stop. Then she started writing.
CARMARTHEN: Saturday’s Parc Dewi Sant parkrun is for anyone living with diabetes, and you can walk it
Health staff will be at the start line with advice, and nobody is watching the clock.
LLANELLI: Teddy bears’ picnic and a Poirot whodunnit as the town’s library turns 100
The building was nearly 70 years old when it reopened as a library, and it was the people of Llanelli who paid for it in the first place.
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SCAM WARNING: Fake South Wales Police caller says your name is in a data breach
The call sounds official and the story sounds plausible. The force says there is only one thing to do with it.
SKEWEN: Bonnie Tyler mural pelted with eggs days after it was finished
The town council says a group of young people egged the wall on Tuesday evening, then kicked doors at the…
FFORESTFACH: Masked robber who pulled a knife on lone shop workers jailed for nine years
Shane Burne hit corner shops in Manselton, Brynhyfryd and Waunarlwydd over six weeks of late summer, picking the ones where…
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 the centre has been and where it is going. Book…
PORT TALBOT: Council clears up which bridge the Chancellor’s £11m is for, and says it’s a flood risk
It is the one under the canopy at the bottom of Station Road, and it has been standing since 1842.
MORRISTON: Scabies reaches Morriston Hospital as MS counts three outbreaks in a month
Swansea Bay University Health Board has confirmed a small number of cases and restricted visiting on some wards, without saying…
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, and the council says it will be back when the…
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…
ST HELEN’S ROAD: Asia Vape shut for a second time in a year as three more Swansea vape shops are closed
Magistrates have closed Vape City and Asia Vape on St Helen’s Road and Vape Zone on Dilwyn Street, the council…
SWANSEA: Britain’s Got Talent winner Harry Moulding to headline Christmas magic show at the Patti
The Blackpool magician who won the ITV show last year is joining the Swansea-made show Phenomenal for four festive nights at the seafront hall.
SWANSEA: Becky Hill to open Tunes on the Bay 2027 as the beach festival goes dance
Two years after McFly and Supergrass played the sand, the Friday headliner is a two-time BRIT winner and the Saturday…
BURRY PORT: Elanna swaps the catwalk for the Zante strip in S4C’s bar-running reality show
She has walked runways and done a summer as a rep. Now Elanna has a bar to keep open, five…
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Permission has sat on the file for years; what was missing was a lender willing to back a listed building…
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KILVEY HILL: Woman, 87, among three charged after Skyline protest
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CWMGWILI: Diggers due at Plas y Bryn, a year after the council said work would start
Wynne Construction has the contract to replace the former care home with a 60-bed building, the first in Wales registered…
PONTYATES: Meddygfa’r Sarn stays open under merger plan, but not all day
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PENCLAWDD: Rake and Riddle to close again as the old Berthlwyd Inn becomes a wellness retreat
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BRYNAMMAN: Man who beat woman in the street while on bail for abusing his ex jailed for 52 months
Cameron Morgan broke the woman’s nose and jaw on Cwmgarw Road after she turned him down. Swansea Crown Court heard…
ABERAVON: Four Winds pub, shut since 2020, to be flattened for 61 affordable flats and a seafront coffee shop
The scheme has come down from seven storeys and lost its shop over five years of being sent back. Five…
RICHARD BURTON 10K: Olivia, 6, used to start the countdown. On Sunday her big sister will do it for her
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