THE RAPTURE: How Port Talbot became ‘Porth Hen’, the seaside town at the heart of BBC One’s thriller
The psychological thriller starring Ruth Madeley, Iwan Rheon and Ruth Jones reaches its finale on Sunday night, with Margam's ruins, Aberavon Beach and Port Talbot town centre all over the…
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CARMARTHEN: Falcon Hotel up for sale after more than half a century in the same family
The Lammas Street institution where generations of Carmarthen families have celebrated weddings, christenings and Sunday lunches is on the market at £895,000, and it stays open and trading as usual…
SKETTY: Empty office block to become dental practice as planners say yes
A vacant two-storey building next to the vets on Gower Road has permission to become a dental surgery, with the doors allowed open until 10pm on weekdays but only one…
TURTLE RESCUE: Pembrokeshire CEO to fly world’s rarest sea turtle on first leg of 5,000-mile journey home
Rhossi the Kemp's ridley was found cold-stunned on an Anglesey beach by a dog called Meg. On Monday, after nearly two years of rehabilitation, a Pembrokeshire businessman will fly him…
PRODUCT RECALL: Asda and Morrisons pasta salads pulled over listeria fears
Three pasta products with use-by dates this weekend are being recalled from stores including Asda and Morrisons, with shoppers told not to eat them and to return them for a…
SOLAR ECLIPSE: How to watch Wednesday’s 90% eclipse from Swansea Bay
Nine in ten parts of the sun will vanish behind the moon on Wednesday evening, the deepest eclipse seen from Wales since 1999. Here's when it happens, why Gower and…
MICHAEL SHEEN: Toxic waste investigation Buried finally gets its air date
The Port Talbot star's two-part series on the "forever chemicals" allegedly dumped near Welsh farms and homes airs on Monday 17 August, eight years after the whistleblower who inspired it…
PORTHCAWL: Son jailed for hiding mother’s body in freezer and claiming £78,000 of her benefits
Christopher Phillips kept Sylvia Phillips in a chest freezer at their home for almost three years after she died, telling her GP and then police she had moved to London.
RANEEM’S LAW: Domestic abuse specialist to sit inside Dyfed-Powys 999 control room from August
Dyfed-Powys Police is one of twelve forces in the second wave of the Home Office scheme named after Raneem Oudeh,…
PORT TALBOT: ‘Cowardly’ trio sentenced over violent robbery that left man in hospital
Two 19-year-olds have been locked up and a teenage boy given a referral order over a November attack in which…
CELTIC SEA: New Welsh Government approves its first offshore wind farm
Section 36 consent has been granted for Cierco Energy's Llŷr wind farm off the Pembrokeshire coast, a test and demonstration project the Welsh Government says will create around 2,000 jobs…
LLANDEILO: Five £3m business units open to tenants at Beechwood
The Welsh Government says the units answer a workspace shortage the community itself identified, with one of the larger ones…
LLANELLI: ‘No threat to Parc Howard’, insists deputy council leader
Cllr Hazel Evans has hit back at a Llanelli Labour councillor's petition on the 'unloved' condition of Parc Howard's grounds,…
DAY’S AT 100: The candles go on the cake as Swansea’s motor giant marks its official birthday
The centenary year has been running since spring. Today is the actual date: 100 years to the day since Charles Day opened his doors on St Helen's Road with a…
EASYJET: What the £5.7bn US takeover means if you fly from Bristol
The airline with 20 aircraft based at Bristol Airport, the nearest easyJet base to south Wales, has agreed a takeover…
BETFRED: The dozen south west Wales betting shops waiting to learn their fate
The bookmaker is closing 132 shops with more than 600 jobs going, but hasn't said which, leaving branches from Morriston…
ALEX JONES: Ammanford star leads The One Show’s 20th birthday party
The Carmarthenshire presenter has fronted the BBC's teatime flagship for 16 of its 20 years, and will lead a week of anniversary specials ending with an extended show on Friday…
PORT TALBOT: Inside the exhibition documenting a town after steelmaking
Steeling Ourselves pairs Jon Pountney's photographs with residents' own words about what changed when the furnaces stopped. It's at The…
SWANSEA: The horror collection written after work, in bed, with a cup of tea
A. Sjoberg has published her debut collection in paperback, hardback, Kindle and audiobook inside four months, all of it around…
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