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Owain Wyn Evans in a red helmet and yellow jacket riding a yellow spotted bike past orange BBC Radio 2 and Children in Need barriers
Ammanford

AMMANFORD: Owain Wyn Evans ‘arrested’ by Blue Lights star on the longest day of his 400-mile ride

A TV sergeant, a rewritten pop hit and a surprise from his best friend kept him going around Lough Neagh.

Computer-generated aerial view of two-storey houses around a green with a play area, swings, picnic benches and trees
Affordable Housing

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.

Rows of parked cars at Knab Rock car park in Mumbles, with the cliff and palm trees behind
Cllr Andrew Stevens

MUMBLES: Council to look at cheaper parking, but leader warns change could come with ‘consequences’

Swansea Council leader says he’d look at cheaper Mumbles parking options, but warns changes could come with ‘consequences’.

Aberavon Beach and promenade on a sunny summer day
Aberavon

ABERAVON: Dogs could get more of the beach back, but be kept on leads on the prom all year

More than 2,000 people responded. Dog owners saw it very differently from everyone else.

Four tied black bin bags and one open bag of household rubbish dumped on long grass beside brambles and a large rock
Cllr Carl Jordan

PORT TALBOT: Woman who ignored fly-tipping investigators handed £1,637 bill

It was not the dumped rubbish that put Danielle Rigdon in court. It was the calls, letters, home visit and…

Kimberley Compton sitting on a wooden bench in autumn woodland, smiling and holding a copy of her book A Reason to Start Again
Ammanford

AMMANFORD: Woman who spent almost 14 years trying for a baby turns her story into a memoir

In April she decided to stop. Then she started writing.

A runner in blue leggings and black trainers walking along a tarmac path through a park
diabetes

CARMARTHEN: Saturday’s Parc Dewi Sant parkrun is for anyone living with diabetes, and you can walk it

Health staff will be at the start line with advice, and nobody is watching the clock.

Llanelli Library: a Victorian stone building with a tower beside a brick extension covered in a living wall of plants
Carmarthenshire Council

LLANELLI: Teddy bears’ picnic and a Poirot whodunnit as the town’s library turns 100

The building was nearly 70 years old when it reopened as a library, and it was the people of Llanelli…

Aerial view of the stone ruins of Neath Abbey on mown grass, with houses and hills behind
CADW

NEATH ABBEY: Ruins to get a 26-space car park and coach bay, with work starting Monday

Heading to the abbey before the new year? Allow for parking being restricted at times.

Bungalows on Bryn y Derwydd in Trefin, Pembrokeshire, with the street sign on a wall
anti-social behaviour

TREFIN: Woman whose dogs were seized is ordered out of her council home

The council says the problems carried on even after the court took her dogs away.

Kev Johns in a red Swansea City jacket walking between orange parallel bars during a physiotherapy session
Glynneath

SWANSEA: ‘I can walk up the stairs now’: Kev Johns on life after stroke as charity warns of £1.87bn bill

He promised himself he would walk out of hospital, and he did. But a charity says not every stroke survivor…