Port Talbot
NEATH PORT TALBOT: Scott Jones is the new council leader, three weeks after Steve Hunt quit
The Independent councillor for Gwynfi and Croeserw, until now the cabinet member for Streetscene, was confirmed at full council on…
PORT TALBOT: Tata found guilty after two steelworkers breathed in gas at 18 times the safe limit
The pair stayed behind until every contractor was out, and now the steel giant faces a fine.
PORT TALBOT: Artist’s impressions show the 1903 Newbridge Road Bridge rebuilt for walkers and cyclists after ten years fenced off
Two of its three spans keep ironwork that is older than the bridge itself, the middle one goes, and the…
PORT TALBOT: Two of Vivian Park’s three gates to shut after 3pm as police target e-bike riders
From Monday, only one way into the park will be open each afternoon for three weeks, and it changes every…
PORT TALBOT: Government pays EY £1m to vet Tata’s plea for more furnace money
The furnace meant to bring steelmaking back to the works is running late, and Tata is reported to want hundreds…
PORT TALBOT: Seven chances in October to say what should go in the town’s £3m culture bid
Drop-ins at Cwmafan Library, Aberafan Shopping Centre, Sandfields and Croeserw, a pre-kick-off session at Trefelin's ground and two ticketed evenings,…
PORT TALBOT: The grid firm that’s late plugging in the furnace says batteries could get the next factories connected sooner
National Grid, Net Zero Industry Wales and the Celtic Freeport will test whether batteries the network switches on and off…
PORT TALBOT: Solicitor, 38, who defended a Sandfields cocaine boss jailed after police found he was buying from him
Ben Garvey was the criminal defence solicitor on Daniel Baker's case when Baker was arrested for running a cocaine operation…
YSTALYFERA BRO DUR: 1,600-pupil Welsh-medium school to be split in two, with a head for each campus
Neath Port Talbot Council wants separate schools in Ystalyfera and Sandfields from September 2028. Pupils would stay where they are,…
PORT TALBOT: Town of Culture bid gets a new chair, with £3m at stake and until 30 November to make the case
Gemma Charnock, a vice principal at NPTC Group of Colleges, will chair the partnership behind Port Talbot's UK Town of…
PORT TALBOT: Tata is building its new pickle line in a bay the June fire left without a roof
The fire that burned for two days in June took the roof off the far end of the bay where…