ST HELEN’S: Rugby is back at the old ground on 7 October, and Gower College get first go at the new pitch
Swansea RFC return in their 150th year at St Helen's, with college and university sides opening the ground first. The Ospreys play the Dragons on 24 October, and tickets go…
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LLANDYSUL: Lifetime animal ban after man’s dog starved to death, and another tore the letterbox off to reach food
Charlie survived weeks shut inside a house with no one caring for him. Twelve-year-old Suki did not, and their owner has been handed a suspended prison sentence.
SWANSEA: Rooftop gardens and bee ‘buzz highways’ put the city in a global club with Singapore
A new report counts 16 green roofs and living walls across the city centre, the planting that won Swansea a place alongside Singapore and San Francisco in a global network…
RACHEL ROBERTS: Llanelli’s three-time BAFTA winner would be 100 next year, and the town is being asked how to remember her
She was born in a Baptist manse in Llanelli 99 years ago today, won British film's top acting prize twice in three years and was nominated for an Oscar. With…
SWANSEA: Beachfront and Dyfatty brought under street rules as cabinet backs e-bike crackdown
Swansea Council's Cabinet has agreed a new three-year Public Spaces Protection Order reaching the Promenade, foreshore, Civic Centre grounds, the western Marina and Dyfatty, with a new condition aimed at…
URDD: Regional eisteddfods in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire get £2,500 boost
The money from housebuilder Persimmon will go towards next year's regional rounds of the Urdd Eisteddfod across west Wales. The cheque was handed over at Yr Egin in Carmarthen.
PORTHCAWL: Floodlit 3G pitch planned at the comprehensive, with club hire from £22.50 an hour and grants lined up to pay for it
A seven-a-side artificial pitch would replace the school's worn-out one, open to clubs on evenings, weekends and in the holidays. Bridgend's cabinet decides on Tuesday, and £391,000 in grants is…
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BRIDGEND MURDER: Family remember ‘extraordinary’ Tracey as husband found guilty of killing her
The family of Tracey Davies say they will “never come to terms” with losing a woman whose laughter could light up a room after her husband was found guilty of…
JAILED: Eight years for Brynmill man who attacked a woman walking alone at night
Mohangopi Tadiboyina, 30, was found guilty by a jury on 20 July and sentenced at Swansea Crown Court on Friday…
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,…
NEW WDA: Capital One co-founder and Airbus boss join ports chief on panel designing Wales’s development agency
Ten unpaid advisers will help shape the body ministers say will halve Wales's productivity gap, with a first report due early next year. The announcement is silent on where the…
CARMARTHENSHIRE: Double-digit council tax rise warning as £32m gap opens
Finance chiefs say next year needs £13m of cuts and a 5% rise just to balance, and they have found…
BRIDGEND: Reform MS Sarah Cooper-Lesadd defects to Plaid, saying her old party is “not serious about governing Wales”
The Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg MS, who held the children and skills brief in Reform’s shadow cabinet, has crossed the floor…
BURRY PORT: Tributes to Amcanu boss Owain Davies, 55, killed in Swiss Alps plane crash
The managing director of the Burry Port engineering firm was a passenger in a light aircraft that came down near Leukerbad on Tuesday. He was a Wales Air Ambulance trustee,…
LLANSAMLET: Steel firm puts 699 solar panels on its roof and says the bills will repay it in four years
Afon Engineering on Swansea Vale Business Park is spending £250,000 on a rooftop array it says will cut its power…
BRIDGEND: First M&S in the county borough planned for Waterton Road
An M&S Food, a new Aldi and a Costa drive-through are lined up for the old car lot off the…
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘A heartfelt love letter’ with ‘tremendous potential’, Cooper The Musical at the Grand’s Arts Wing
Stefan Pejic is 'very convincing' as Tommy Cooper in his own new musical at Swansea Grand Theatre's Arts Wing, but reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds a show that is thin on…
HENDY: Sex Education casting director Lauren Evans to get BAFTA Cymru honour
Seven months after her no-speech BAFTA win went viral, the Hendy casting director behind I Swear, Sex Education and Lost…
ARTS CASH: A new lift for the Glynn Vivian, a roof for the Print Workshop, a stage for Tŷ Tawe: where £1m of arts money is going
Eleven venues across Swansea, Neath, Llanelli, Bridgend and Ystradgynlais have a share of the Welsh Government's £8m Arts Capital Investment…
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