CATHERINE ZETA-JONES: ‘I can’t go to Wrexham’: Swansea’s Hollywood star turned down Ryan Reynolds ‘many times’
The Swansea-born actress told Heart Breakfast she has refused every invitation to appear in Welcome to Wrexham, because her uncle was a Swans director in the Toshack years and she…
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OSPREYS: ‘You can’t go in with a survival attitude’: Jones sets the tone for Durban opener
Mark Jones says his side must go to the Sharks looking to win rather than merely compete, warning that South African teams will not respect anything less.
SWANSEA: The Cwtch Mawr warehouse has a new name, and a UK-wide charity award to go with it
Faith in Families' multibank, now renamed Multibank Cymru, has won the Charity Sustainability Award at the Charity Times Awards in London. It is the second award of the year for…
CARMARTHEN: Food wholesaler heads for a record £75m year as Gower Gin’s ‘Baby Guinness’ liqueur makes its Christmas brochure
Harlech Foodservice, which supplies pubs, restaurants, schools and hospitals from its Carmarthen depot, says festive pre-orders are up 1,100% in the two weeks since its Christmas brochure went out. Among…
OSPREYS: Four competitive debuts as Parry and Watkin lead side into Durban opener
Liam Wright, Lawson Creighton, Lalakai Foketi and Tom Rogers all make their competitive Ospreys debuts in Saturday's United Rugby Championship opener against the Sharks at Kings Park.
MAESTEG: First look at the £270,000 concrete skatepark for the Welfare Park, and riders have a fortnight to change it
Maverick Skateparks, the firm behind the Mumbles seafront park and this year's Brackla build, has published a 34.5m by 15m concept with a spine, two "volcanoes" and a 1.8m quarterpipe…
SWANSEA: Francesca O’Brien takes the council’s £13.7m overspend to the Senedd and asks for the ALN cash to go straight to councils
The Gŵyr Abertawe MS put the spending freeze and the reserves to the education minister on Wednesday. Anna Brychan said the additional learning needs money was in the budget that…
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BRIDGEND: Man, 21, jailed for raping woman who told him ‘we’re not having sex’
Daffydd Piper ignored the woman's repeated refusals, then told her by Snapchat "I'm sorry, I should have stopped" before claiming to police she had made it up. He changed his…
LLANGUNNOR: Stabbing threat report led police to £118,000 of drugs, a zombie knife and an axe
Cameron Davies, 23, has been jailed for two years and ten months. Police say they traced two vehicles to an…
CHILD EXPLOITATION: Couple jailed after woman arranged for child to be sexually exploited by man she knew would abuse her
Victoria Lewis, 40, from Neath, was found guilty at trial of arranging a child's sexual exploitation and jailed for four…
LABOUR WIPEOUT: Only Gower and Cardiff East left standing in Wales if an election were held tomorrow, YouGov model says
YouGov's first seat-by-seat projection since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister has Labour down from 27 Welsh MPs to two, with Swansea West, Neath and Swansea East, Llanelli, Aberafan Maesteg and…
LITTER: You could be fined for rubbish thrown from your car even if you weren’t in it, and fly-tippers could face £5,000
The Welsh Government is asking whether the person a car is registered to should pay for whatever comes out of…
REFORM WALES: Neath-born former teacher Helen Jenner is the party’s new Senedd leader
The Bangor Conwy Môn MS was elected by Reform's Senedd members on Monday morning, six days after Dan Thomas stood…
MANUFACTURING: Seven bosses from Llanelli to Bridgend named among the 130 people “shaping the future” of UK industry
Make UK's new 130 Honours, out on National Manufacturing Day, include the heads of Gower Chemicals, EBS Automation, Rototherm and the Gavin Griffiths Group, plus Sony's Pencoed plant, Vale's Clydach…
BRIDGEND: TGJones closing-down posters go up in the Rhiw, the second of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go
The shop that was WHSmith until last year has "store closing down, everything must go" posters in its windows at…
BURRY PORT: Tributes to Amcanu boss Owain Davies, 55, killed in Swiss Alps plane crash
The managing director of the Burry Port engineering firm was a passenger in a light aircraft that came down near…
THEATRE REVIEW: ‘More than warrants the hype’, Operation Mincemeat at Swansea Grand
Five actors, 20 songs, 24 awards and a dead Welshman: reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds the Olivier-winning musical lives up to all of it at the Grand this week. It runs…
ANTHONY HOPKINS: Margam-born star tells a tale from hell in first trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Wife & Dog
The 88-year-old plays the head of the wealthy Fairbank family, whose fight over the succession turns to betrayal and murder,…
LIVE MUSIC REVIEW: ‘Stirred rather than shaken’, Q The Music’s James Bond Concert Spectacular at the Grand
Former Miss Moneypenny Caroline Bliss comperes as Q The Music bring their James Bond Concert Spectacular to Swansea Grand Theatre,…
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At the start of September the 375-space multi-storey on Oystermouth Road still had its decks. On Monday morning it was…
LLANDYSUL: Lifetime animal ban after man’s dog starved to death, and another tore the letterbox off to reach food
Charlie survived weeks shut inside a house with no one caring for him. Twelve-year-old Suki did not, and their owner…
URDD: Regional eisteddfods in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire get £2,500 boost
The money from housebuilder Persimmon will go towards next year's regional rounds of the Urdd Eisteddfod across west Wales. The…
PORTHCAWL: Floodlit 3G pitch planned at the comprehensive, with club hire from £22.50 an hour and grants lined up to pay for it
A seven-a-side artificial pitch would replace the school's worn-out one, open to clubs on evenings, weekends and in the holidays.…
GOWERTON: Flood regulator says 216-home site ‘did not fully comply’ with flood guidance, then agrees flooding can be left out of the study
Natural Resources Wales has backed Persimmon on flooding, contamination and landscape, while joining the council in questioning the age of…
ST HELEN’S: Rugby is back at the old ground on 7 October, and Gower College get first go at the new pitch
Swansea RFC return in their 150th year at St Helen's, with college and university sides opening the ground first. The…
OPINION: ‘The pint is the pilot’, Kirstie Logan-Townshend on proving your age with your phone
Swansea-based communications consultant Kirstie Logan-Townshend, a former senior government press officer for AI, on digital proof of age at the…
GOWERTON: Bats, dormice and otters put back on the table for 216 homes, but the council says nothing on traffic
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