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CARMARTHEN: Work on 84 homes off the A40 to start early next year, and the estate has a name
Half of them will be affordable, but those are not the ones that arrive first.
SCHOOL CLOSURES: Village nurseries could go too, Welsh childcare bodies warn
Bancffosfelen’s cylch meithrin has looked after the village’s youngest children for 50 years. Now the two national bodies behind Welsh-medium…
BURRY PORT: Harbour gate due back in early December as dredger works 54 tides
A dredger lifted over the quay wall by crane is now working the Outer Harbour, and boat owners have been…
YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: Cabinet gives go-ahead to 150-place special school
Llanelli's long-promised new special school has taken its biggest step yet. The argument has moved on from whether it gets…
CWMGWILI: Diggers due at Plas y Bryn, a year after the council said work would start
Wynne Construction has the contract to replace the former care home with a 60-bed building, the first in Wales registered…
YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: Parents and pupils question if Llanelli’s planned special school is already too small
Llanelli’s £35m special school has passed its public test. Now the question is whether 150 places will be enough.
SCHOOL CLOSURES: Council to expand Pontyberem school “whether or not” Bancffosfelen’s village school shuts
Councillors sent the closure papers back once over “inaccuracies”. On Monday they reach cabinet anyway, alongside three more village schools,…
CARMARTHEN: Neighbours line up against 38 council homes behind the leisure centre
The council is the one applying, and three of its own councillors say too few people on Llansteffan Road have…
GWENDRAETH VALLEY: ‘Once you lose a school, it never comes back’: governors ask Welsh Government to halt closures
Three village schools facing closure have taken their fight to the Education Minister. The Welsh Government’s first reply has not…
CARMARTHEN: 835 demand an inquiry into the £41m Atriwm, as the council keeps St Catherine’s Street roadworks until Christmas
Campaigner Scott Bayes will put the case for an independent inquiry to councillors on 12 November. The council says the…
YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: Four pupils have died in six months, says councillor, and still no nurse
Health chiefs could give no guarantee and no deadline for a nurse at the Llanelli special school, campaigners say, and…