ABERAVON: Four Winds pub, shut since 2020, to be flattened for 61 affordable flats and a seafront coffee shop
The scheme has come down from seven storeys and lost its shop over five years of being sent back. Five operators tried the pub between 2017 and 2020 and none…
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REMEMBRANCE: Trains join the buses in going free for veterans and serving forces, with one extra day
Transport for Wales trains are free for the Armed Forces community on 8 and 11 November, and to Cardiff on the Friday before. The ID rules are tighter than First…
CWMGWILI: Diggers due at Plas y Bryn, a year after the council said work would start
Wynne Construction has the contract to replace the former care home with a 60-bed building, the first in Wales registered for both nursing and residential care. The council first promised…
MORRISTON: Scabies reaches Morriston Hospital as MS counts three outbreaks in a month
Swansea Bay University Health Board has confirmed a small number of cases and restricted visiting on some wards, without saying which. Claire Archibald MS says she has written to the…
PONTYATES: Meddygfa’r Sarn stays open under merger plan, but not all day
Hywel Dda has set out the hours for the village surgery for the first time, and patients needing an urgent appointment after a certain time would be heading to Kidwelly.…
PENCLAWDD: Rake and Riddle to close again as the old Berthlwyd Inn becomes a wellness retreat
Redefining Dining Co reopened the pub as three restaurants only last year. Now it says the building will become Casa, its wellness flagship, in early 2027, with staff offered jobs…
BRYNAMMAN: Man who beat woman in the street while on bail for abusing his ex jailed for 52 months
Cameron Morgan broke the woman’s nose and jaw on Cwmgarw Road after she turned him down. Swansea Crown Court heard what his former partner had already been through.
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MAESTEG: Man, 73, jailed for almost 12 years for sexual offences against children spanning 30 years
Christopher Williams admitted 15 offences against several victims and was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on 21 October.
20MPH: Fewest spring crashes on record outside Covid, says Welsh Government, three years after the limit came in
Collisions on 20 and 30mph roads are down 37% on the last spring before the change, statisticians say. They also…
SWANSEA: Crack dealer jailed after police rang a drugs line and found the phone by a mattress
Officers rang the number they were investigating. The phone was beside a mattress.
DEVOLUTION: More tax powers for Wales now ‘a matter of how and when’, First Minister says after Burnham talks
Rhun ap Iorwerth came out of Glasgow saying the Prime Minister agrees Wales’ borrowing limits have to change. He also told him devolution inside Wales is the Senedd’s business, and…
NORTH GATE SWANSEA: Cash for benches, fencing and community groups on the cards from £20m fund
The board spending the money is hiring its first three staff, and wants to meet North Hill residents over a…
WELSH LIB DEMS: Cwm Tawe MP David Chadwick to stand for leader as Jane Dodds steps down
Nobody else is eligible to stand. He says the party has to stop thinking and acting like a minor one.
ST HELEN’S ROAD: Asia Vape shut for a second time in a year as three more Swansea vape shops are closed
Magistrates have closed Vape City and Asia Vape on St Helen’s Road and Vape Zone on Dilwyn Street, the council says. Asia Vapes was on the list when nine shops…
UPLANDS: Post Office wants to move out of Uplands News and into the old Rainbow childrenswear shop
The branch would go 130 metres up Uplands Crescent to the empty boutique at number 29, refurbished with a convenience…
GROWTH CASH: Got a £500k idea? Under two weeks to bid, and there’s a catch
The region’s councils want big ideas that can grow the economy. Every project has to be finished by December 2028.
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘A play about nothing and a play about everything’, Swansea Little Theatre’s Under Milk Wood at the Dylan Thomas Theatre
Dylan Thomas's play for voices returns to the theatre that bears his name, where the writer himself was a member in the 1930s. Reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds a committed cast…
SWANSEA: Oriel Science turns ten, and says 180,000 people have been through its doors
It started with a DeLorean in a pop-up on Princess Way. Now the city-centre science gallery has extra opening days…
BRANGWYN HALL: Council pulls the plug on Magic Mike-style strip show
The star of Magic Men says he found out from his fans, and that he was told the show was…
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LLANELLI: Poppy Appeal launches at new Royal British Legion hub, with a Friday deadline to lay a wreath
The Lord-Lieutenant cut the ribbon on the Legion’s new St Elli hub. If you want to lay a wreath at…
ST HELEN’S: ‘Build it and they will come’: URC boss hails the Ospreys’ new home, and says season tickets have doubled
Martin Anayi, chief executive of the United Rugby Championship, calls the rebuilt ground “something Swansea and Wales can be proud…
GOWERTON: Brand-new utilities lorry strikes Wales’ most-hit railway bridge
It’s the third strike at the bridge we’ve reported this year, and the lorry is brand new, on a plate…
ST HELEN’S: Council leader opens the rebuilt ground with the first whistle, then turns back to the WRU
Rob Stewart calls the Ospreys’ first night at their new home one of ‘huge pride’. He also has a message…
PATTI PAVILION: Swansea’s 1920 seafront hall to open seven days a week, with an eye on the St Helen’s crowd
No ticket needed: The Patti says it is getting a new look, new seating, drinks offers and a student discount,…
PORT TALBOT: Paul Potts comes home to open the rebuilt theatre, 20 years after Britain’s Got Talent
The tenor who won over the Britain’s Got Talent judges with Nessun Dorma will sing at Yr Aelwyd, the old…