LLANELLI: Aldi lodges Sandy Road plans, with the car park entrance moved after a council safety objection
The application to demolish Pinopolis has gone in to Carmarthenshire Council. Aldi has shifted the main vehicle entrance off Sandy Road to the roundabout, after highways officers objected, and dropped…
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SWANSEA AIRPORT: Licence suspended again, eight months after the council said its future was secure
Inspectors from the Civil Aviation Authority turned up unannounced at Fairwood Common and the aerodrome licence was suspended, the airport says. It is the third suspension since 2019.
CHILD OF WALES: Doctors told her mum she might be paralysed. Gracie, seven, has now raised £65,000 for the crew who saved her
Gracie Kinnear was met by Wales Air Ambulance medics after a road collision left her with a collapsed lung, internal bleeding and a shattered kidney. She has been honoured by…
PORT TALBOT: New Nisa opens on the Old Gasworks Estate, and hands £500 to the local football club
The shop on the Old Gasworks Estate is the first for owners Yugrajvir Singh Bajwa and Parminder Singh, and brings Co-op own-brand products to the area. Sandfields Rangers players turned…
FFOS LAS: Ladies Day begins 15,000ft up as racecourse four skydive for Tŷ Hafan
Clerk of the course Tracey O'Meara and three others jumped from Swansea Airport for the children's hospice, raising close to £5,000 between them.
SWANSEA: The city makes the UK top 20 for people trying to turn a hobby into a business
Swansea is 20th and Cardiff 11th in a ranking of where people search hardest for how to make money from what they love. Clothing brands top the list of dream…
PEMBREY: Pump house with planning for 23 lodges back on the market at the country park gates
The Old Pump House on Factory Road, with planning for 16 holiday apartments and 23 lodges, is on the market again through Christie & Co with offers invited. Fourteen months…
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CROSS HANDS: Uninsured teen who hit taxi at 141mph on the A48 locked up for 28 months
Max Dangerfield, then 18, had just overtaken an unmarked police car at more than 100mph when he ploughed into the back of a taxi carrying two women home from a…
GORSEINON: Fourth person charged in connection with death of Ceiran Evans
Trisha Thomas, 36, from Gorseinon, has been charged with assisting an offender, South Wales Police said. Three men already face…
GOWERTON: Appeal after two girls, 15, deliberately filmed by man on Swansea train
British Transport Police believe the same man has filmed people elsewhere on the railway network, and want to trace a…
DISPOSABLE BBQS: Banned from sale across Britain as Prime Minister warns country is a ‘tinderbox’
The UK government has issued a temporary ban on selling disposable barbecues in store and online, a day after Swansea Council urged people to leave them at home and the…
CARMARTHENSHIRE: Saron councillor Peter Cooper dies, remembered as a “dedicated public servant”
The Labour councillor for Saron served his corner of Carmarthenshire for more than two decades: in the council chamber, on…
BRIDGEND: Rhiw Shopping Centre handed £350k as Wales launches town centre taskforce
The arcade Bridgend Council bought in March gets new regeneration funding, announced alongside the co-chairs of a taskforce the Welsh…
AU VODKA: Swansea gold bottle firm in talks over £500m sale to American drinks giant
Founders Charlie Morgan and Jackson Quinn could each walk away with more than £100m. Nothing has reportedly been signed as yet, and there is no word on the future of…
SWANSEA: River Island’s Oxford Street store now has a closing date
Signs in the store's windows confirm the date, with a 30% off closing-down sale under way. The chain's Morfa Retail…
CARMARTHEN: Demolition date set for the former Wilko
Site notices are up and the frontage fenced off at Friars Park, with the public able to comment until 9…
SWANSEA: ‘We love you Bonnie’ as the Minster says goodbye to Gaynor
Only Men Aloud sang Total Eclipse of the Heart over a white coffin engraved with a microphone and a treble clef, and the man who discovered her in a Swansea…
SWANSEA: The city gets ready to say goodbye to Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler's funeral takes place at Swansea Minster at noon on Monday, with a big screen in St David's Square…
MUMBLES: Bonnie Tyler comes home as thousands line Newton Road
Thousands filled Newton Road from the top of the hill down to the sea on Saturday afternoon, throwing flowers onto…
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