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Council leader Rob Stewart and the Lord Mayor of Swansea in black and gold robes stand with veterans and guests in Swansea Market as a piper plays in the foreground.
Armed Forces

SWANSEA: Where to get your poppy, as the Royal British Legion appeal launches at Swansea Market

A garden of crosses has gone up among the market stalls. From there, it’s just over three weeks to Remembrance…

South Wales Police custody photograph of Abdullah Saed, a man with short dark curly hair and a beard
assault

DYFATTY: London dealer who bit a police officer by the Matthew Street flats jailed for 32 months

Abdullah Saed, 25, had come from Penge to the tower blocks on Matthew Street with a car holding cocaine, cannabis,…

A grassy mound ringed by temporary metal fencing on bare, dug-over ground on Kilvey Hill, with conifers behind and solar panels and Swansea in the distance
archaeology

KILVEY HILL: Skyline fences off the ruins of a windmill first built in 1680

What's left of the old mill is now ringed by fencing as work on the gondola and luge attraction goes…

Aerial view of thousands of runners gathered at a start arch beneath the golden Copr Bay bridge in Swansea city centre
Cancer Research Wales

SWANSEA: The Great Welsh Marathon is leaving Pembrey for a loop of the city in October 2027

Front Runner Events is moving the race from Pembrey Country Park after more than ten years and wants 7,500 runners…

Volunteers in Christmas jumpers serving roast potatoes, carrots, peas and sprouts from a servery at Together at Christmas in the Brangwyn Hall
Brangwyn Hall

SWANSEA: Free Christmas dinner for the city’s homeless and lonely returns to the Brangwyn Hall on 1 December

Ten years and around 5,000 meals on, the dinner for people who are homeless, alone or struggling returns with a…

Wayne Bowron, a man in glasses and a navy hoodie, smiling beside a German shepherd dog in front of Christmas decorations
A4067

GLAIS: Family’s tribute to ‘heart of gold’ motorcyclist Wayne Bowron, 52, who died in A4067 crash

His family say he would do anything for anyone and loved the friends he made through motorcycling. Police want dashcam…

Temporary metal fencing across the empty lower section of Oxford Street car park in Swansea, with the Grand Theatre behind
blue badge

OXFORD STREET: Car park beside the Grand loses four of its 22 disabled bays to EV chargers

Blue Badge holders who rely on the car park beside the Grand get 11 of their bays back on Friday…

The LibertySounds team and DJs behind the decks inside Hello Asia on Princess Way, Swansea, during the September pop-up club night
Basekamp

SWANSEA: Three school friends turned a Princess Way corner shop into a nightclub. Next up, a coffee shop

Eighty people, shelves of noodles and soju, four hours of house and garage, and a waiting list. Now LibertySounds has…

Three shopfronts inside the Quadrant Shopping Centre — a TGJones store on the left, the Post Office and Swyddfa'r Post in the middle, and a Toys R Us store on the right, with two shoppers walking past on a polished tiled floor.
Bridgend

SWANSEA: TGJones confirms closure date for the Quadrant’s old WHSmith

Swansea's former WHSmith in the Quadrant has been given a closing date. The Post Office inside it will shut days…

Jacob Lovell of Lovell Roofing, Gowerton, holding his Roofer of the Year trophy and a bottle of champagne at the Checkatrade Regional Awards for Midlands and Wales
awards

GOWERTON: Roofer Jacob Lovell crowned the best in Wales and the Midlands

Lovell Roofing's boss came home from Wolverhampton with a trophy, a bottle of champagne and a date in London next…

Tour artwork for The Archers: Live at 75, a cow peering out of a marquee under an Ambridge Flower and Produce Show banner, with bunting and tables of flowers and vegetables
BBC Radio 4

SWANSEA: Brian Aldridge, Lilian and Jazzer bring The Archers to the arena for its 75th birthday

It's the only Welsh date on the tour, and the nights either side, in Exeter and Bath, have already sold…