SWANSEA: TGJones confirms closure date for the Quadrant’s old WHSmith
Swansea's former WHSmith in the Quadrant has been given a closing date. The Post Office inside it will shut days earlier, and the city centre could be without one for…
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OXFORD STREET: Car park beside the Grand loses four of its 22 disabled bays to EV chargers
Blue Badge holders who rely on the car park beside the Grand get 11 of their bays back on Friday and the rest in November. The council's own masterplan, meanwhile,…
CARMARTHEN: Three men charged with conspiring to supply unfit meat after food crime investigation
Two of them also face an animal cruelty charge. All seven defendants are due at Southwark Crown Court next month.
WHITLAND: Railway radio mast turned into weather station after Storm Darragh’s £1.3m rail bill
The kit fitted high above the west Wales line is a first for Network Rail, and it could change how trains are handled the next time a storm rolls in.
CELTIC SEA: Giant floating wind farm will come ashore at Carmarthen Bay, with every cable underground
The floating wind farm's cables would end at a village already braced for contested pylon lines coming the other way. Where they come ashore is still an open question, and…
SWANSEA: Three school friends turned a Princess Way corner shop into a nightclub. Next up, a coffee shop
Eighty people, shelves of noodles and soju, four hours of house and garage, and a waiting list. Now LibertySounds has booked its second unlikely venue.
NEATH PORT TALBOT: Scott Jones is the new council leader, three weeks after Steve Hunt quit
The Independent councillor for Gwynfi and Croeserw, until now the cabinet member for Streetscene, was confirmed at full council on Wednesday. His predecessor resigned last month after admitting he got…
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SWANS: Police investigate alleged racist abuse of Eom at Millwall
The game at the Den was stopped in the second half after a report of racist chanting towards the Swansea winger, who was warming up on the touchline. Vitor Matos…
PORT TALBOT: Two of Vivian Park’s three gates to shut after 3pm as police target e-bike riders
From Monday, only one way into the park will be open each afternoon for three weeks, and it changes every…
BONYMAEN: Man jailed for sexually abusing two girls who were under 10
One of them went to police around 20 years after the abuse began.
ALN FUNDING: Plaid and Labour strike £60m deal to revive the budget that fell in July
Labour asked for £100m this year and walked away from £40m. The number the two sides have settled on sits between them, and it brings back everything else that fell…
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…
OSPREYS AND SCARLETS: Minister says she can’t save a region as Senedd fails to agree a single word on Welsh rugby’s future
Swansea's £5.1m for St Helen's, Carmarthenshire's £2.4m Scarlets loan and £13.5m of Welsh Government money were all put on the…
SWANSEA: Thinking of starting a business? The council could cover your first £2,000 of costs in full
It’s one of four grants now open, worth up to £50,000 to firms already trading. Most cover half the cost, so you’ll need to find the rest.
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…
PENLLERGAER: Engineering firm that started in a Llanmorlais garage turns 60, with the third generation in charge
The family firm moved to Penllergaer in 1970 to be near its key customer at the time, 3M. The 3M…
COMEDY REVIEW: ‘A greatest hits album’ of characters, Harry Enfield and No Chums at Swansea Arena
Loadsamoney, Stavros, Kevin and Perry and a King Charles entrance: reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds the comedy legend's first solo show holds the arena for close to two hours and leaves…
SWANSEA: Teen painter who started in a lockdown shed takes on TV’s Portrait Artist of the Year
The teenager picked up her mum's old brushes during lockdown, had a painting in a Royal Academy show the following…
SWANSEA: Ex-Corrie star Kevin Kennedy plays a ‘deplorable’ villain as Dorian Gray musical heads for the Grand
Fifty years after he first went on stage, the man who was Curly Watts says his new character has “virtually…
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