SWANSEA: Hundreds fill the streets as Pride 2026 parade returns to the city centre

The annual celebration drew crowds from across south-west Wales on Saturday, with a procession winding through the city centre to the Grade I-listed Guildhall, where a stage, stalls and a…

SWANSEA: Schoolfriends reunited as Cllr Penny Matthews becomes Lord Mayor — 60 years after they sat in the same classroom

Two of Swansea's longest-serving councillors have become Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor in the same year — in a coincidence that stretches back to their school days at Swansea Secondary Technical School for Girls.

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GOWER: Only four locals took part last year — can Swansea’s own backyard event tempt more to take the plunge this June?

The Gritty Rascals Swimrun Gower returns on 20 June — a one-day challenge that takes athletes from Rhossili Bay all the way along the Gower coastline to Mumbles, running cliff tops and swimming bays. Last year, just four people from the local area entered.

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SWANSEA: Hundreds fill the streets as Pride 2026 parade returns to the city centre

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GOWER: Only four locals took part last year — can Swansea’s own backyard event tempt more to take the plunge this June?

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SWANSEA: Spirit of the Fringe award winner Ian Stone comes to Swansea Grand Theatre this Thursday with his search for life’s missing magic

Ian Stone — Edinburgh Festival favourite, Arsenal obsessive and winner of the Spirit of the Fringe award — brings his…

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SWANSEA: ‘10km for every year we’ve been without her’ — Llansamlet woman to run 100km from London to Brighton in memory of eight-year-old friend Lexi

Tallulah Chalstrey was 14 when she lost her childhood friend Lexi May Hopkin to a brain tumour. This Saturday, she…

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She ran away with the circus, swam with sharks and became the ‘Mother of Welsh Burlesque’ — and now her life story is coming to Swansea Grand Theatre

Stephanie Gawne has spent decades as a glamorous assistant, showgirl and burlesque pioneer. Now she’s putting it all on stage…

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PEMBROKESHIRE: Wales vs Westminster showdown looms over Trump’s ‘space wars’ radar — as anti-DARC campaign asks new Plaid government to block it

The Senedd election has handed anti-DARC campaigners what they’ve been waiting for — a Welsh Government with a party policy…

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CHAMPIONSHIP: Clubs scrap financial loss rules — replacing them with a new system that could reshape how Swansea City and rivals spend

Championship clubs have voted to ditch the rules that limited how much money they could lose, replacing them with a…

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WOMEN’S CRICKET: ‘The younger girls would race to get the smallest shirt’ — how south Wales women finally got a kit that fits

For years, women cricketers in south-west Wales turned up to matches in men's hand-me-downs, fighting over the smallest shirts in…

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SWANSEA CITY: Planners give fan zone the green light in principle — but the club has got some work to do

Swansea Council planners have completed their response to Swansea City FC’s pre-application for a fan zone outside the South Stand…

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DARTS: Gerwyn Price pulls out of World Cup of Darts as health concerns force Caerphilly champion to stand down

Gerwyn Price has pulled out of representing Wales at the World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt next month, just days…

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