TAKE BACK CONTROL: Swansea demands power to block new vape shops after Mansel Street raids
Councillors backed a call for England-style planning powers over vape shops as a cabinet member revealed six arrests in raids involving a drone, dog handlers and immigration officers.
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SWANSEA: Free dental information event on 12 September for people considering treatment in Türkiye
The information-only session from Ballıpınar Dental Clinic will cover how treatment in Antalya is organised, with no examinations, diagnoses or treatment plans offered on the day.
SCARLETS: Apoua released after Achilles rupture as injuries mount before Exeter opener
The tight-head prop signed last month will return to New Zealand, with Taine Plumtree, Johnny Williams and Elis Price also sidelined as the Scarlets head to Sandy Park.
BURRY PORT: 57,000 cubic metres of sand gone as harbour diggers finish on Wednesday
Mechanical dredging ends on 9 September with a new deeper channel cut to the estuary, before a specialist vessel arrives in October to shift the silt the diggers can't touch,…
SWANSEA: Man, 33, charged over five robberies, four at knifepoint
Shane Burne, from Waunarlwydd, is charged with four counts of robbery and one of attempted robbery over incidents in the Waunarlwydd and Llangyfelach Road areas, and appeared at Swansea Magistrates'…
SCARLETS: ‘This season does feel different’ — Macleod to captain the region for a fourth year
The flanker who debuted at 18 and has made 150 appearances will lead a squad rebuilt over the summer, with a vice-captain and leadership group still to be named.
OPINION: ‘Ambition on its own has never taught anybody to read’, Kirstie Logan-Townshend on the children locked out of reading
Swansea-based communications consultant and former government AI adviser Kirstie Logan-Townshend, currently working on a national children's literacy campaign, on the children locked out of reading and the twenty minutes that…
HAVERFORDWEST: ‘There was only one Luke’: Family pay tribute to motorcyclist, 35, who died in Pembroke Road crash
Luke King's family say the 35-year-old, who died in a collision on 28 August, was a larger-than-life character who lit up every room, and had just set up his own…
MILFORD HAVEN: Boy who stabbed teacher in the head in school classroom detained for four and a half years
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named because of his age, was cleared of attempted murder but found guilty of wounding…
PORTHCAWL: Man who ran into the sea to escape arrest is jailed for sexual offences
Officers followed Gavin Bennett into the dark water off Porthcawl seafront to bring him out. He has now been jailed…
SWANSEA COUNCIL: Labour and opposition unite to demand city’s slice of £322m ALN cash from Welsh Government
Swansea Council's Labour cabinet, the Conservative, Lib Dem and Uplands Party group leaders and an independent will join forces on Thursday to tell the First Minister that £322m sent to…
WALES: Record £447m capital gains tax bill as thousands more dragged into the net
HMRC figures show 18,000 people in Wales paid capital gains tax last year, up nearly a third, after the tax-free…
MARTIN LEWIS: ‘Genuine step forward’ as bailiffs forced to answer to a watchdog
The money expert says most people who get a bailiff at the door are vulnerable. After years of campaigning, the…
SWANSEA: Free sign language course for city centre staff opens for bookings after every student on the first passes
Bar staff, zoo keepers and marketing execs were among seven city centre workers who learned British Sign Language on Swansea BID's first free course. Every business in the district can…
THREE CROSSES: Back from maternity leave and open three days a week, Lucy’s home salon has just been named the best in the UK
Lucy Hellyer Jones runs Lucy's Beauty Studio from her house on Cilonnen Road on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. On 15…
SWANSEA: Sales manager told ‘nobody wants to see a pregnant woman’ wins victimisation case
The tribunal decided the comment WAS made, whatever her boss said in the witness box. But a time limit killed…
SWANSEA: Tommy Cooper is coming back to life at the Grand, fez and all, in a new musical by the city’s own Stefan Pejic
The panto favourite has spent six years writing a musical that opens at the moment Cooper collapsed on live television in 1984. It gets its first run at the Grand's…
LEAF BOAT: Castle Square’s lost sculpture takes shape in Dylan Thomas’s park
Eight months after it was lifted out of Castle Square, Swansea's Leaf Boat is being installed at the Cwmdonkin Park…
SWANSEA: He painted Bonnie Tyler to hand it to her in person. Now it’s the centrepiece of his first exhibition
Ian Hendry, the Swansea pop artist known as PopDragonArt, was due to give Bonnie Tyler an original portrait shortly before…
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