CARMARTHENSHIRE: Blue bags end for a third of homes on Monday 2 November
The switch to colour-coded recycling sacks starts, mainly in the west of the county. Your letter this month confirms your start date, and any change to your bin day.
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ST HELEN’S: Reopening slips three days as college games are moved out and Saturday’s crowd goes in one stand
Wednesday’s college and university matches and Friday’s Dewar Shield game have been moved to other grounds for “final operational sign-offs”. Swansea RFC v Ebbw Vale on Saturday is now the…
YSTRADGYNLAIS: ‘A 23-mile journey for a hospital bed’: Dodds takes the hospital fight to the First Minister
A day after Powys health board opened its consultation, the Lib Dem MS told Rhun ap Iorwerth 9,700 people had signed against the plans and asked him to stop them.…
NRW: Welsh Tories want the watchdog that polices Withyhedge and the Llanelli fly site scrapped
Andrew RT Davies says the regulator is “unfit for purpose” and should go the way Conservatives in England plan for their own environment agencies. A Senedd committee’s verdict last year…
PAYING A BUILDER: Check one date on Companies House before you hand over a deposit
Overdue accounts turned out to be the tell. Local firms that had them were four times more likely to be gone, or going, within a year.
LLANELLI: Woman who threatened to stab Asda worker with a needle jailed for four years
Kara Racuoco, 41, admitted two robberies and two shoplifting offences at Asda, Home Bargains and Tesco Extra after denying the robberies for months. Police call her a serial offender.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS: ‘I won her back? It was a mutual’: Hollywood star on his 2013 split from Swansea’s Catherine Zeta-Jones
The 82-year-old, promoting his memoir One Helluva Ride, bristled when The Sunday Times asked how he won back his Swansea-born wife after their separation 13 years into the marriage. “We…
MAYHILL: Police investigate after toddler gets out of nursery, and a stranger says she found him in the road
A woman driving up Gors Avenue says she found two-year-old Noah walking alone in the middle of the road. Seren Fach Day Nursery is reported to dispute that he reached…
JOG ON: 68% of women runners in South Wales say they’ve been harassed mid-run
Catcalls, horns, cars crawling alongside, and worse. South Wales Police is taking its campaign to parkruns and running clubs, with…
BRIDGEND MURDER: Husband who strangled Tracey Davies at their Cefn Cribwr home jailed for life
Michael Davies, 57, must serve at least 14 years. Tracey's family say no sentence will ever reflect the one they…
ADMIRAL: Nearly 2,000 Swansea staff still don’t know if their jobs are among the 500 to go
Swansea's council leader has written to the insurer's UK boss demanding "urgent clarification", as a Swansea MS tells the Senedd the cuts are "completely optional" for a company he says…
COST OF LIVING: People are turning down jobs because they can’t afford the fuel to get there, council’s own team tells inquiry
Swansea Council's employment mentors say clients have rejected job offers over the cost of getting to work, cannot afford the…
ENERGY BILLS: VAT scrapped from electricity – but you’ll still pay more
A typical home keeps around £45 a year it would otherwise have paid, a little more in south Wales. Whether…
MILFORD HAVEN: Former Puma fuel terminal to shut down commercial operations at the end of December
Staff are in consultation and a wind-down of up to two years will follow, but the company says the green hydrogen plant planned for the same site is not affected.
COPR BAY: Shops, cafés and restaurants wanted for the units beneath Swansea’s newest car park
The council says it is in positive talks with a number of businesses, and local traders can find out more…
AMMANFORD: The builders’ merchant that started as a Llandeilo sawmill in 1931 posts £92m sales, a 30% profit rise and a national award
LBS Group, still run by the fourth generation of the Davies family, says it grew sales and profits in 2025…
SWANSEA: Five Strictly legends are bringing Las Vegas to the arena this Friday
Fans keep telling them they wish they were still on Strictly, James Jordan says. On Friday, Swansea gets all five of them on one stage.
SWANSEA: Love Actually is coming to the arena with a full live orchestra this Christmas
Swansea has the only Welsh date on the 14-stop UK tour. Miss it, and the nearest alternative is Bath.
UPLANDS: Told at nine she couldn’t sing, Maryann wrote her own anthem and sang it at the Royal Welsh College
Maryann Enereba was sent out of a school music practice in Nigeria for not being able to sing. Now the…
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GORSEINON: The workies that served the town for 100 years is being knocked down for houses
It shut just before Christmas 2023 with a "heartbreaking" post to its members, and went under the hammer. Now the…
MUMBLES: The 16-year-old sailor who’s always last up the beach, and now has an award for it
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CARMARTHEN: Wilko demolition pushed back to next year as council says a tenant “of significant benefit to the town” is in talks
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