SCHOOL CLOSURES: Four more Carmarthenshire village schools face the axe, three of them in the Gwendraeth Valley
Blaenau was saved five years ago. Carway's children haven't been inside their own school for more than a year. Now both are on a new closure list, and three of…
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KILVEY HILL: The Skyline site’s bare slopes are being sprayed green to grow a meadow
Crews are hosing a mix of seed, mulch and nutrients onto the ground stripped for the gondola and luge. It's the first step in greening the hill back over, with…
CWMGWRACH: Rhondda man taken on to clear building waste dumped it on the road to Unity Mine
Shane Richards was taken on to get rid of plasterboard and plaster from an address in Treherbert. It turned up in two piles in Cwmgwrach, and nearly two years later…
SA1: Swansea firms will be able to try out robots before they buy, at a new university hub
Boston Dynamics and ABB are among the names backing it. The point isn’t to build robots, it’s to help businesses work out whether one would pay.
HAFOD: Two men jailed for more than 12 years between them after a heroin and crack deal in a parked car
He got out of the car with two ounces of heroin and two of crack cocaine. He didn’t get far.
BAILEY’S BAGS: Maria hoped to raise £500 for chemo grab bags. She’s passed £4,000
She finished her own treatment in August. Now the bags she packed during it are reaching women just starting theirs.
STRICTLY: Swansea’s Melanie Walters is out, a week later than she thought she would be
Three of the four judges saved Shaun Wright-Phillips in Sunday’s dance-off. Gwen signed off in Welsh, and Stacey had something to say on Instagram.
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AMMANFORD: Cocaine dealer jailed after police raid finds £5,500 cash in boxes and bags
Officers forced their way in and found white powder, scales and cash split between boxes and bags. The dealer wasn't there. The woman inside said she was only housesitting.
SPIKING: Five years after the Wind Street needle reports, Swansea’s bar staff, doormen and taxi drivers are invited to Wales’ first night-time safety summit
The woman who invented Ask for Angela and the mother who won Martyn's Law will be in Builth Wells on…
CARMARTHEN: Man who spent the day hunting his ex-partner with a knife jailed for 24 years
He packed a kitchen knife before he left home, then spent the day looking for her. Detectives call what happened…
SWANSEA: Council housing officers could get powers to shut ‘cuckooed’ homes and bar troublemakers
Swansea Council adopted the powers in 2018 and its housing service never built them into day-to-day work. Cabinet is now asked to let trained officers issue legal notices and seek…
PETROL PRICES: Google Maps now shows you the cheapest fuel near you
Every forecourt has had to report its prices within half an hour since February. From today the numbers sit on…
NRW: Welsh Tories want the watchdog that polices Withyhedge and the Llanelli fly site scrapped
Andrew RT Davies says the regulator is “unfit for purpose” and should go the way Conservatives in England plan for…
ADMIRAL: Some of the jobs being cut are set to move to India, but the insurer won’t say how many are Swansea’s
The insurer says everyone affected has been briefed and "location was not a consideration". What it will not give Swansea is a number.
SA1: Marketing agency that started as a one-woman business moves into the J-Shed after Workplace of the Year win
AD Marketing signed for Unit 6 in the Grade II listed grain warehouse days after collecting its award at the…
MILFORD HAVEN: Former Puma fuel terminal to shut down commercial operations at the end of December
Staff are in consultation and a wind-down of up to two years will follow, but the company says the green…
MICHAEL DOUGLAS: ‘I won her back? It was a mutual’: Hollywood star on his 2013 split from Swansea’s Catherine Zeta-Jones
The 82-year-old, promoting his memoir One Helluva Ride, bristled when The Sunday Times asked how he won back his Swansea-born wife after their separation 13 years into the marriage. “We…
SWANSEA: Five Strictly legends are bringing Las Vegas to the arena this Friday
Fans keep telling them they wish they were still on Strictly, James Jordan says. On Friday, Swansea gets all five…
SWANSEA: Love Actually is coming to the arena with a full live orchestra this Christmas
Swansea has the only Welsh date on the 14-stop UK tour. Miss it, and the nearest alternative is Bath.
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