LLANELLI: Old Woolworths and the Tinhouse set to come down in January to make way for the new market hall
The council has filed the demolition notice for 8 to 14 Vaughan Street. The papers reveal who else is living on the roof, how the listed bank next door will…
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SINGLETON PARK: The £34 Halloween ‘scarefest’ Swansea Council says doesn’t exist
A website is selling tickets for a 13-day Halloween scare park in Singleton Park. The council says it is a scam. Its photos match events in York and at Alton…
LLANELLI: How many scabies cases are there at Prince Philip? MS demands ministers say, ten days into ward closures
Hywel Dda has published nothing since it shut wards on 27 September, and Claire Archibald says the Welsh Government cannot "leave this to the health board and hope it goes…
PONTARDDULAIS: The £2 Sunday quiz that has put £16,250 into Swansea’s hospitals
When Eirwyn and Hilary Evans's team won the right to choose where the latest £500 went, they split it between the two Singleton wards that had just treated them both.
CHARGED: Neath Abbey man charged over Neath town centre stabbing
Connor McCarthy, 30, from Neath Abbey, is charged with Section 18 wounding with intent and possessing a knife in a public place. He is due at Swansea Crown Court on…
PENLAN: Man filmed taking drugs off sleeping woman’s body jailed for seven years for raping her
Caeran Evans, 27, admitted sexual assault but denied rape; a jury convicted him last month. Police say he was filmed taking drugs off the sleeping woman's body and "still carried…
PONTARDAWE: Mary Hopkin to receive Welsh Music Inspiration Award, 58 years after ‘Those Were The Days’
The singer Paul McCartney took to number one is being honoured at the Welsh Music Prize tonight, and her daughter will collect the award for her.
MAYHILL: Police investigate after toddler gets out of nursery, and a stranger says she found him in the road
A woman driving up Gors Avenue says she found two-year-old Noah walking alone in the middle of the road. Seren Fach Day Nursery is reported to dispute that he reached…
JOG ON: 68% of women runners in South Wales say they’ve been harassed mid-run
Catcalls, horns, cars crawling alongside, and worse. South Wales Police is taking its campaign to parkruns and running clubs, with…
BRIDGEND MURDER: Husband who strangled Tracey Davies at their Cefn Cribwr home jailed for life
Michael Davies, 57, must serve at least 14 years. Tracey's family say no sentence will ever reflect the one they…
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 their own environment agencies. A Senedd committee’s verdict last year…
ADMIRAL: Nearly 2,000 Swansea staff still don’t know if their jobs are among the 500 to go
Swansea's council leader has written to the insurer's UK boss demanding "urgent clarification", as a Swansea MS tells the Senedd…
COST OF LIVING: People are turning down jobs because they can’t afford the fuel to get there, council’s own team tells inquiry
Swansea Council's employment mentors say clients have rejected job offers over the cost of getting to work, cannot afford 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 hydrogen plant planned for the same site is not affected.
COPR BAY: Shops, cafés and restaurants wanted for the units beneath Swansea’s newest car park
The council says it is in positive talks with a number of businesses, and local traders can find out more…
PORT TALBOT: Government pays EY £1m to vet Tata’s plea for more furnace money
The furnace meant to bring steelmaking back to the works is running late, and Tata is reported to want hundreds…
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 of them on one stage.
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.
UPLANDS: Told at nine she couldn’t sing, Maryann wrote her own anthem and sang it at the Royal Welsh College
Maryann Enereba was sent out of a school music practice in Nigeria for not being able to sing. Now the…
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MUMBLES: Padel courts to replace the old seafront tennis courts, and the car park is coming back
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