Llanelli

A volunteer carries a box of meals into the Goods Shed in Llanelli, under a sign reading Sied Nwyddau Goods Shed
Antioch Centre

LLANELLI: Home-cooked meals for £2 from a freezer at the town’s old railway goods shed

It’s pay what you can, with meatballs, stews and lasagne cooked from scratch by volunteers. The freezer is open four…

A modern brick health centre building at Canolfan Pentre Awel, with a curved yellow path, bench and landscaped planting in front.
Bouygues UK

LLANELLI: 29,000 blood test patients since June as Canolfan Pentre Awel turns one

It opened a year ago on land where Llanelli once made tinplate. Here’s how the town has used it, and…

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…

Aerial view of Ysgol Pen Rhos primary school in Llanelli and its green 3G pitch, with the AMG Resources waste site and the Loughor estuary beyond
AMG Resources

LLANELLI: Ysgol Pen Rhos pupils kept indoors all afternoon as bomb disposal team deals with suspected shell at the fly-plague waste site next door

The primary school told parents the find was well away from its 3G pitch and it was safe to stay…

Yellow store closing down posters in the windows of the TGJones shop at Parc Trostre retail park in Llanelli
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LLANELLI: Closing-down signs go up at TGJones in Trostre, the third of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go

Staff say the shop that was WHSmith until last year has weeks left. The chain has still not announced a…

Heledd Fychan, in a black and white patterned dress, speaking at a lectern in the Senedd chamber with members seated behind her
Carmarthenshire Council

OSPREYS AND SCARLETS: Minister says she can’t save a region as Senedd fails to agree a single word on Welsh rugby’s future

Swansea's £5.1m for St Helen's, Carmarthenshire's £2.4m Scarlets loan and £13.5m of Welsh Government money were all put on the…

Ambulance parked outside Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli.
Claire Archibald MS

LLANELLI: How many scabies cases are there at Prince Philip? MS demands ministers say, ten days into ward closures

Hywel Dda has published nothing since it shut wards on 27 September, and Claire Archibald says the Welsh Government cannot…

A run of empty shop units with closed roller shutters beneath a weathered glass canopy on Vaughan Street in Llanelli
Andrew Scott Ltd

LLANELLI: Old Woolworths and the Tinhouse set to come down in January to make way for the new market hall

The council has filed the demolition notice for 8 to 14 Vaughan Street. The papers reveal who else is living…

Police custody photograph of Kara Racuoco
ASDA

LLANELLI: Woman who threatened to stab Asda worker with a needle jailed for four years

Kara Racuoco, 41, admitted two robberies and two shoplifting offences at Asda, Home Bargains and Tesco Extra after denying the…

Shuttered shop units under a glass canopy on Stepney Street, Llanelli, with a To Let sign on the former bank beyond
Alcohol

LLANELLI: 428 drink and drug incidents in the town centre in two years, and police want a 24-hour move-on power

The order that lets officers take a can off you in Stepney Street is up for renewal. This time it…

Three people with two pink shopping trolleys in front of an Asda store, one trolley carrying a pink poster asking 'Have you checked your chest?'
ASDA

LLANELLI: Asda’s trolleys have gone pink, because four in ten people in Wales have never checked their chest

Llanelli is one of two Welsh stores getting the supermarket's pink trolleys this October. Asda's own survey puts Wales among…