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Adam Gibbons and Jane Rice standing outside the new Cards Direct store in the Quadrant Shopping Centre, with its pink shopfront and opening offer posters
Cards Direct

SWANSEA: New card and gift shop to open in the Quadrant this Saturday — with a buy one get one free launch offer

Cards Direct will open its fourth Welsh store in the Quadrant Shopping Centre on Saturday — as attention builds on…

Aerial view of the Port Talbot steelworks, with a large water reservoir in the foreground, blast furnaces and chimneys beyond, and Swansea Bay in the distance.
Afan Ogwr Rhondda

GREEN STEEL DELAY: Cross-party calls for answers over Port Talbot furnace setback as politicians press Tata and National Grid

A cross-party call for clarity is mounting at the Senedd over the delay to Port Talbot's new electric arc furnace,…

David Rees in a grey suit standing in front of the Port Talbot steelworks, with blast furnaces and a steam plume behind him.
David Rees MS

GREEN STEEL DELAY: Former Aberavon MS says National Grid should face penalties over delayed electric furnace connection

David Rees, the former Aberavon MS who chaired the Senedd's cross-party group on steel, says the new electric arc furnace…

An aerial CGI visualisation of Tata Steel's Port Talbot plant, showing the planned new Electric Arc Furnace facility integrated with the existing steelworks, with the site's industrial buildings, cooling towers and surrounding hills of the Afan Valley in the background
electric arc furnace

GREEN STEEL: Port Talbot’s £1.25bn furnace could be delayed by up to eight months over power hold-up

Tata Steel has warned that its switch to greener electric steelmaking at Port Talbot may be held up, after the…

A smiling woman kneels in long grass at the edge of a field, holding a large bag labelled "Premium Chopped Bedding Straw", with arable fields, green countryside and a blue sky behind her.
Farming

GOWER: The former journalist who took on the lorries and machinery to save the family farm business

When ill health forced her husband to step back from the farm diversification business he had founded, former journalist Louisa…

NatWest Bank in Llanelli
bank closure

NATWEST: Llanelli and Port Talbot branches to close in September

Two of the bank's three remaining branches in the Swansea Bay area will shut within a day of each other…

a tray of white eggs on white table
brown eggs

EGGS: Welsh free-range farmers in the frame as Sainsbury’s ditches brown eggs for white in net-zero drive

The supermarket says white eggs have a lower carbon footprint — but the switch lands on a Welsh egg sector…

The gutted, glowing interior of a steelworks building at night with a hose directed across a walkway
fire

PORT TALBOT: Steelworks fire burns into a second day as part of the building collapses — with union warning over jobs

A vital production line has been left with "substantial damage" and part of the building has caved in, trapping the…

Illicit cigarettes discovered by PML
counterfeit cigarettes

New data shows almost HALF of all UK cigarettes smoked pay no tax — with Swansea ranked among highest for illegal vape seizures

Calls to crack down on "front shops" selling illegal cigarettes and vapes as Swansea is revealed as having the fifth…

A group of eight people standing under a red 'Welcome to your local SPAR' arch outside the new convenience store in Townhill, with the Post Office sign visible alongside.
A F Blakemore

TOWNHILL: Family-run convenience store reopens as a SPAR after major revamp

A Townhill convenience store has had a new lease of life, reopening as a SPAR after local retailer Mandeep Sohal…