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 that only came out in September. Within hours, Save Gowerton…
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HENDY: Esme’s family are up for a UK heart charity award, and it’s down to a public vote
Dad ran the London Marathon, mum ran the Cardiff Half, and they’ve raised more than £19,000. Now it’s up to the public.
LLANELLI: Three indoor padel courts are taking shape at Machynys
The golf club’s new courts will be under one roof, so the weather won’t stop play. Here’s where things stand.
SWANSEA: Treboeth man, 55, dies after being pulled from the River Tawe
Emergency services were called to the river on Sunday lunchtime. Police say there are no suspicious circumstances.
LANDORE: Divers are in the Tawe as the Bascule Bridge’s old supports come out
New fenders are going in to protect the bridge from boats, and there’s more to come around Christmas.
BURRY PORT: Designer’s artwork made from her studio floor scraps picked for London’s Discerning Eye show
Tammy Danielle Davies made Threads from scraps and scrap-store embroidery hoops after seeing a picture of a textile dump in Ghana. It was picked from more than 6,800 entries.
CARMARTHEN: Neighbours line up against 38 council homes behind the leisure centre
The council is the one applying, and three of its own councillors say too few people on Llansteffan Road have been told. Comments close on Thursday.
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BRIDGEND MURDER: Man charged with Eleanor Barnfield murder appears in court
He will appear at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday. The ambulance service has found no record of a 999 call from her phone, despite reports she was driving herself to…
BRIDGEND MURDER: Clifford Foster, 61, charged over the death of Eleanor Barnfield
He is due before Newport magistrates on Friday morning. Police say the case is not being investigated as a domestic…
BRIDGEND MURDER: Ambulance service says delayed-response rumours are ‘factually untrue’
A rapid response car reached Coity Road seven minutes after the 999 call on Monday, the Welsh Ambulance Service says,…
TOWY VALLEY: Ministers want new power lines buried by default. So what happens to the 22-metre poles?
Buried by default, steel pylons scrapped: that is the Welsh Government’s plan for new power lines. Where does it leave the Towy Valley’s 22-metre poles?
COUNCIL TAX: Bands stay stuck on 2003 values into the 2030s as Plaid shelves the revaluation to save £80m
A quarter of households could have gone up a band, a quarter down. The Finance Minister says cushioning the losers…
GOWER: Swansea’s longest-serving councillor joins Reform UK, his daughter’s party, after 53 years and four party labels
Richard Lewis first stood for the council as a Conservative in 1969, the year Swansea became a city. He has…
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 store alongside and the same postmaster behind the counter. The…
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.
PORT TALBOT: £9.2m to turn waterfront land into six business units and room for floating wind
Two of the four Celtic Freeport projects sharing £18.4m are in Port Talbot. Neither has a start date or a…
SWANSEA: ‘Come on Swansea, give me your very best’: Suzanne Shaw wants the boos as the Grand’s Wicked Queen
The Hear'Say singer has toured as Snow White but never played a baddie. Now she is the Wicked Queen at the Grand, with Swansea's Christian Patterson, who first saw panto…
PENYRHEOL: ‘The Punch’ Colin Jones painted on the wall of his old boxing club
Artist Jenks has painted the Gorseinon-born former British, Commonwealth and European champion on the wall of Penyrheol Boxing Club.
AMMANFORD: Owain Wyn Evans admits ‘wobbles’ 19 days before his 400-mile Children in Need ride
The Radio 2 presenter told Sara Cox he has been doing everything Professor Greg Whyte tells him, but 400 miles…
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