SWANSEA BAY METRO: Plans for Swansea to Burry Port rail link go public with details of new Cockett station
The layout for Cockett station is out, and Transport for Wales wants to know whether you would use it.
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SWANSEA: Giant chest of LEGO and Pokémon lands at the multibank for families who can’t afford Christmas presents
Hundreds of toys arrived in Swansea Vale in a chest big enough to sit in, all of them for children whose parents are struggling. How they get from the warehouse…
LLANGENNECH: Train firm blames a signaller for the diesel fire and wants £30m from Network Rail
Network Rail went to court in August wanting £5m from the firms it blames for the fire. One of them has answered with a far bigger bill of its own,…
WANTED: 27 arrested in a day across Swansea and Neath Port Talbot
Officers knocked on doors from Townhill to Port Talbot last Wednesday. Where they went, who they were after, and how many are now before the courts.
BAGLAN: Bagle Brook is coming back, under the new owner of 57 old Whitbread restaurants
Shut since September, the Baglan institution has turned up on a new company’s opening list. Who they are, and when a councillor says the doors could open.
KILVEY HILL: Woman, 87, among three charged after Skyline protest
Two women from Bishopston and St Thomas and a man from Caerphilly were arrested at the construction site on Sunday and are due before Swansea magistrates on 2 December. Campaigners…
REMEMBRANCE: Trains join the buses in going free for veterans and serving forces, with one extra day
Transport for Wales trains are free for the Armed Forces community on 8 and 11 November, and to Cardiff on the Friday before. The ID rules are tighter than First…
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DYFATTY: Anti-social behaviour down 37% and 143 arrests as police hand the crackdown to the council
The Clear phase of Clear, Hold, Build is over after nine months. Police say drug trafficking reports fell by nearly half. Now Swansea Council has to hold the ground.
MAESTEG: Man, 73, jailed for almost 12 years for sexual offences against children spanning 30 years
Christopher Williams admitted 15 offences against several victims and was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on 21 October.
20MPH: Fewest spring crashes on record outside Covid, says Welsh Government, three years after the limit came in
Collisions on 20 and 30mph roads are down 37% on the last spring before the change, statisticians say. They also…
DEVOLUTION: More tax powers for Wales now ‘a matter of how and when’, First Minister says after Burnham talks
Rhun ap Iorwerth came out of Glasgow saying the Prime Minister agrees Wales’ borrowing limits have to change. He also told him devolution inside Wales is the Senedd’s business, and…
BURRY PORT: Wales’ first commercially caught bluefin tuna went over the counter at a Saturday morning fish market
Five fish landed at Milford Haven under a Welsh Government trial were cut and sold by Whitfish in Burry Port.…
NORTH GATE SWANSEA: Cash for benches, fencing and community groups on the cards from £20m fund
The board spending the money is hiring its first three staff, and wants to meet North Hill residents over a…
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 says. Asia Vapes was on the list when nine shops…
UPLANDS: Post Office wants to move out of Uplands News and into the old Rainbow childrenswear shop
The branch would go 130 metres up Uplands Crescent to the empty boutique at number 29, refurbished with a convenience…
GROWTH CASH: Got a £500k idea? Under two weeks to bid, and there’s a catch
The region’s councils want big ideas that can grow the economy. Every project has to be finished by December 2028.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘A play about nothing and a play about everything’, Swansea Little Theatre’s Under Milk Wood at the Dylan Thomas Theatre
Dylan Thomas's play for voices returns to the theatre that bears his name, where the writer himself was a member in the 1930s. Reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds a committed cast…
SWANSEA: Oriel Science turns ten, and says 180,000 people have been through its doors
It started with a DeLorean in a pop-up on Princess Way. Now the city-centre science gallery has extra opening days…
BRANGWYN HALL: Council pulls the plug on Magic Mike-style strip show
The star of Magic Men says he found out from his fans, and that he was told the show was…
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Emergency services were called to the river on Sunday lunchtime. Police say there are no suspicious circumstances.
LANDORE: Divers are in the Tawe as the Bascule Bridge’s old supports come out
New fenders are going in to protect the bridge from boats, and there’s more to come around Christmas.
BURRY PORT: Designer’s artwork made from her studio floor scraps picked for London’s Discerning Eye show
Tammy Danielle Davies made Threads from scraps and scrap-store embroidery hoops after seeing a picture of a textile dump in…
CARMARTHEN: Neighbours line up against 38 council homes behind the leisure centre
The council is the one applying, and three of its own councillors say too few people on Llansteffan Road have…
LLANELLI: Poppy Appeal launches at new Royal British Legion hub, with a Friday deadline to lay a wreath
The Lord-Lieutenant cut the ribbon on the Legion’s new St Elli hub. If you want to lay a wreath at…
ST HELEN’S: ‘Build it and they will come’: URC boss hails the Ospreys’ new home, and says season tickets have doubled
Martin Anayi, chief executive of the United Rugby Championship, calls the rebuilt ground “something Swansea and Wales can be proud…
GOWERTON: Brand-new utilities lorry strikes Wales’ most-hit railway bridge
It’s the third strike at the bridge we’ve reported this year, and the lorry is brand new, on a plate…