TRAM-TRAIN: The plan to run trams from the Neath valley into Swansea, and why councillors are being told to wait
A line from Swansea High Street through the docks and the Bay Campus to Neath and Aberdulais has been drawn, costed and given a green light on paper. Councillors voted…
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LEAF BOAT: The sculpture is back in the water, and the artist who made it has seen it home
Amber Hiscott has been reunited with her Leaf Boat at Cwmdonkin Park, where a leaking pond has been repaired and refilled around it. One of its glass panels is missing,…
KIDWELLY: Sixteen new council homes at Parc Pendre, built to cut tenants’ energy bills
Carmarthenshire County Council has finished a development of social rented homes ranging from one to four bedrooms, with heat pumps, solar panels and heavy insulation. It is part of a…
20MPH: Reform says scrap it after serious injuries hit a six-year high. Here is what the figures actually show
Reform Wales says the default limit is costing money and lives after 1,361 people were killed or seriously injured on Welsh roads in 2025. The figure covers every road at…
UNION ROW: Plaid told to fix NHS as Rhun backs break-up pact
Welsh opposition parties say hospital care and schools should come first as nationalist leaders declare Westminster’s time is running out. Scotland’s John Swinney predicts Andy Burnham will be the UK’s…
SWANSEA: At 36 she’d never finished a course. Now she’s off to Cardiff Met
Natalie Price Pettersson is going to university after classes at a community centre in Clase, part of a haul of 73 qualifications Faith in Families says its learners have gained…
NEATH: 100 more parking spaces at Gnoll Country Park, and twelve weeks of work starting today
Work begins this morning on an extension adding 100 spaces, along with 14 electric vehicle charging points and 15 cycle stands that the council's announcement did not mention. The car…
BRIDGEND MURDER: Family remember ‘extraordinary’ Tracey as husband found guilty of killing her
The family of Tracey Davies say they will “never come to terms” with losing a woman whose laughter could light up a room after her husband was found guilty of…
JAILED: Eight years for Brynmill man who attacked a woman walking alone at night
Mohangopi Tadiboyina, 30, was found guilty by a jury on 20 July and sentenced at Swansea Crown Court on Friday…
JAILED: Capel Dewi man shared films of children being raped in Telegram group infiltrated by undercover officer
Michael Fox, 55, set up the group chat where he distributed three films of girls aged between eight and 11,…
ASSISTED DYING: The law will not change, and Swansea’s MP says that is not the end of it
MPs rejected the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Friday afternoon, so for people in Swansea Bay facing a terminal diagnosis the law tomorrow is the law it…
£1 BUS FARES: Nine million journeys in, the £1 ticket for under-22s is staying until 2027
The £1 single and £3 day ticket for 5 to 21-year-olds has been extended to March 2027, with more than…
CYMRAEG AI: Ministers try again to teach artificial intelligence to speak Welsh
The Welsh Government is handing data, resources and expertise to a London AI company whose flagship model was built to…
SWANSEA: The city agency that added five staff in a year has just handed one of them a share of the business
The Swansea-founded firm has added a Chief Strategy Officer with Entain and MediaCom on his CV, launched a network of hundreds of specialists, and is recruiting for two more roles,…
CLOSED: Three more Swansea vape shops shut by magistrates after counterfeit tobacco and drugs seized
VH Vape Hub, Kalar Market and Midtown Vape Shop, all on Mansel Street, must stay shut for three months after…
JOBS: Work experience at Tesco, John Lewis and Costa on offer for young people on Universal Credit
A new scheme will offer 18 to 24-year-olds two to four weeks of hands-on experience with Britain's biggest retailers, as…
SWANSEA: Catherine Zeta-Jones blasts ‘horrific’ nepo baby label as children follow famous parents
The Hollywood star has defended Dylan and Carys Douglas as they forge careers in entertainment, while recalling the decision she made as a teenager to leave school in Swansea and…
PENYBERTH OPERA: Saunders Lewis gets a tenor, and every arsonist gets his own accent, as rehearsals begin
The composer of Fflamau Penyberth matched each singer to the home turf of the man he plays, ahead of the…
BONNIE TYLER: The man who discovered her returns to a Swansea stage with the story of how it all began
Weeks after giving the eulogy at her funeral, talent scout Roger Bell joins Mal Pope at the South Wales Miners'…
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LANDORE: The timbers are coming out at the Bascule Bridge, with the span due back next year
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MAESTEG: Empty for 30 years, the Neath Road house nobody could touch is going under the hammer
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SWANSEA: A giant cat now prowls the wall by the Kardomah, as the Muriau Mawr trail grows
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SWANSEA BLITZ: Sold-out play takes 5,000 children from the stage to the city’s real gas masks
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GOWER: TV Survivor winner joins hundreds of walkers on Rhossili coast trek for Marie Curie
More than 500 walkers took on Marie Curie's Beat the Gower Coast on Saturday, with Matthew Haywood, the youngest ever…
SWANSEA: Masked e-bike riders face £75 on-the-spot fines under tough new street rules
Riders who endanger pedestrians, or hide their faces to dodge identification, would be fined under a new three-year Public Spaces…
SWANSEA: Nine social homes recovered and £1.2m identified in council fraud crackdown
Swansea Council's fraud team says it identified £1.2m in overpayments and savings in 2025/26, prosecuted four cases and investigated 13…
RED LINES: Swansea Bay’s MPs back the settlement goods ban, days after the city carried its own through the streets
Torsten Bell, Tonia Antoniazzi and Stephen Kinnock have backed the Foreign Secretary's ban on goods from illegal West Bank settlements,…
SWANSEA: Grand Theatre’s summer makeover complete as every stalls seat is replaced
The theatre stripped its auditorium back to bare carpet over the summer. Now the new, wider seats are in, alongside…
PADEL AND PILATES: £3.3m for Neath Port Talbot’s gyms, but Pontardawe’s pool is still £10.8m short
Aberavon opens its revamp this autumn, Neath gets the county's first padel courts, and Pontardawe is in line for a…
NEATH FAIR: Stalls from 9am, rides from 6pm as the Great Fair opens for its 746th year
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