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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SWANSEA: Crack dealer jailed after police rang a drugs line and found the phone by a mattress
Officers rang the number they were investigating. The phone was beside a mattress.
SWANSEA: ‘It’s home from home’: CBeebies’ Rebecca Keatley is back at the Grand as Snow White
The Port Talbot-raised presenter first performed there with its youth theatre. Panto runs in the family, too.
PONTLLIW: Man jailed over plan to hide drugs inside rope and ship them to New Zealand
Police went to arrest him over something else. His phone was in the microwave, and it led them to a contact called ‘The Baron’.
LLANELLI: PC sacked for chasing a colleague he suspected was a domestic abuse victim
A misconduct panel also found he saved a witness’s number on his own phone after taking a statement about a shoplifting.
SWANSEA: Seven libraries are lending out daylight lamps to get you through the winter
The clocks have gone back and the evenings are drawing in. There’s now a box on the library shelf with a lamp that’s meant to stand in for the daylight.
ST HELEN’S ROAD: Couple jailed after woman’s ex was stabbed in the neck in a 6am street fight
He thought he’d been punched. CCTV shows traffic trying to get round the fight.
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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,…
PYLONS: Labour warns Plaid’s plan to bury power lines could push up bills
Reform and the Conservatives want new lines underground. Labour warns it could land on your bills, and ministers have yet to say what it means for the Towy Valley.
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…
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…
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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