MUMBLES: Padel courts to replace the old seafront tennis courts, and the car park is coming back
Three fenced courts between the Oyster House and the bowling green, a car park with charging bays and a path through to the prom. The council asked Mumbles what it…
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ALGORITHM OFF SWITCH: Gower’s MP wants you to be able to turn off what Facebook and TikTok decide you see
Tonia Antoniazzi has signed a letter from around 40 MPs asking the Culture Secretary to make social media firms offer a plain chronological feed, days after Lisa Nandy said the…
CHRISTMAS PARADE: Santa’s back on Sunday 22 November, and the council’s new float hint points to infinity and beyond
Swansea's award-winning parade returns at 5pm on 22 November on last year's route from the Guildhall to Princess Way, with 40-plus groups, two stages, two fireworks displays and a brand-new…
GLASTONBURY 2027: Coach tickets from Swansea go on sale on Sunday, the same morning as the festival tickets
National Express will run direct services from Swansea to Worthy Farm from £24 one way, with sales opening on 4 October as the festival's general admission tickets go up for…
LEGAL AID: £1.3m for free advice across Wales if you’re facing eviction, debt or a benefits row
Facing eviction, a debt you cannot pay or a benefits decision you think is wrong? A £1.3m UK Government fund is paying for free legal advice across Wales from Thursday…
SWANSEA: The earring maker who still takes cash at markets, and the hour it costs her to bank it
Ellie Jones sells handmade earrings at markets across Wales around a full-time job. Cash saves her the card fees. Banking it can cost her an hour. She has chosen cash,…
SWANSEA: The boss of two Swansea care homes is leading a national vote, and it closes tomorrow
Bethan Evans runs the company behind Hawthorn Court in Sketty and Ocean Living on the Mumbles seafront. She has been named in the Social Care Top 30, and the public…
JAILED: Sandfields man gets 16 years for raping a girl of 12
James Miller, 49, sexually abused the same victim between 1993 and 2001. She reported him to police in 2023, and he has now been given a special custodial sentence.
CYBER ATTACK: Dyfed-Powys Police hit, and the force still can’t say whether staff data was accessed
A regional cyber-crime unit is investigating after the attack took down online and email contact with the force for a…
LLANELLI: Unlicensed taxi driver who drove children with additional learning needs to school fined £2,700
Derrick Lewis was caught driving pupils in a licensed private hire car during a council spot check at Ysgol Heol…
SWANSEA: Nearly six weeks for a housing benefit decision as council admits it is short of staff
A new claim for help with the rent took almost 40 days to process this spring, against the council's own 29-day target. Council tax discount claims took 36. The council…
SWANSEA: Just four in ten reports of abuse against vulnerable adults checked within a week, council figures show
Swansea Council says it should investigate reports that a vulnerable adult is being abused or neglected within seven working days.…
SWANSEA: Council plans to drain £22m from savings pots meant for crematorium repairs and school IT to cover staff equal pay claims
The money was put aside for things like crematorium repairs, the bus station and school IT. Councillors are being asked…
SWANSEA: SPAR replaces university’s longstanding Costcutter
The Singleton campus shop has kept its existing team, with additional paid student roles announced and a wider food range aimed at students, NHS staff and local residents.
SWANSEA: The seasonal temp who joined Amazon in 2010 is now running the whole Swansea warehouse
Chris Bailey started at the Swansea fulfilment centre as a seasonal associate while finishing a master's degree. Sixteen years on,…
SWANSEA: Leeds Building Society promises its branch will stay open until at least 2031, as banks keep leaving
The mutual says all 51 of its branches, Swansea included, will stay open every weekday with no appointment needed. It…
CELEBRITY TRAITORS: Michael Sheen starts as favourite to win, and the bookies think he’ll be handed a cloak too
The Port Talbot actor walks into the castle on Thursday night at 7/2, shorter than the 6/1 he opened at in May. He says being an actor counts against him.…
SWANSEA ON SCREEN: The Civic Centre is a London police HQ, the Guildhall is a bank and No Sign Bar is a London pub in this year’s TV dramas
Ten productions have filmed in the city in the past year, a council report shows, from Netflix and Amazon to…
SWANSEA: Live at the Apollo’s Tom Stade to tear up the rulebook at the city’s comedy club
The Canadian comic brings Tom Stade Rules, his new show fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, to the Problematic Pub Comedy…
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LABOUR WIPEOUT: Only Gower and Cardiff East left standing in Wales if an election were held tomorrow, YouGov model says
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THEATRE REVIEW: ‘More than warrants the hype’, Operation Mincemeat at Swansea Grand
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BRIDGEND: TGJones closing-down posters go up in the Rhiw, the second of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go
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RAIL CENTRE: £70m spent, not a pound of private money in, and two ministers in two days won’t say if it’s going ahead
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SWANSEA: The Kicks kid who couldn’t keep his temper on the pitch played for Wales in Mexico
Harri Stevens was 12 when he told Swansea City AFC Foundation that football used to make him angry. Four years…
CARMARTHEN: TfW wants the railway station to work better as a train-and-coach interchange
Transport for Wales has opened a survey on improving facilities at Carmarthen railway station and joining up the TrawsCymru coaches…
BURRY PORT: Chips, a 99 and Amelia Earhart: the new station wall that reads “every stop is a new beginning”
Seven panels have gone up at Pembrey and Burry Port station, spelling out a Welsh phrase one word at a…
PORT TALBOT: Tata is building its new pickle line in a bay the June fire left without a roof
The fire that burned for two days in June took the roof off the far end of the bay where…
CEFN COED: £27.9m to shore up the UK’s oldest working mental health hospital, and move Neath Port Talbot’s ward into it
The health board wants Welsh Government money to make its oldest mental health wards safe, and to bring Neath Port…