Carmarthen

Aerial view of Carmarthen Leisure Centre in Johnstown with the grassed field beside its tennis courts, Llansteffan Road to the left and the River Towy to the right
Affordable Housing

CARMARTHEN: Neighbours line up against 38 council homes behind the leisure centre

The council is the one applying, and three of its own councillors say too few people on Llansteffan Road have…

Computer-generated image of a slim grey steel pole with a Y-shaped top carrying power lines across green farmland, with trees and hills behind
Adam Price MS

PYLONS: Labour warns Plaid’s plan to bury power lines could push up bills

Reform and the Conservatives want new lines underground. Labour warns it could land on your bills, and ministers have yet…

Adam Price MS

TOWY VALLEY: Ministers want new power lines buried by default. So what happens to the 22-metre poles?

Buried by default, steel pylons scrapped: that is the Welsh Government’s plan for new power lines. Where does it leave…

Scott Bayes standing with arms folded in front of security fencing and scaffolding on the former Debenhams building in Carmarthen
Atriwm

CARMARTHEN: 835 demand an inquiry into the £41m Atriwm, as the council keeps St Catherine’s Street roadworks until Christmas

Campaigner Scott Bayes will put the case for an independent inquiry to councillors on 12 November. The council says the…

A smiling young woman with long red hair in a striped cardigan beside a bronze lion head mounted on a gold-painted plinth
Folly Farm

FOLLY FARM: Carmarthen art student’s bronze Hugo now watches over the lion’s pride

Katie Morrissey had never sculpted on this scale before. The keeper who knew Hugo best chose her design from eight.

Black and white dairy cows walking on green pasture with Welsh hills in the background. Image credit: FUW.
Dairy Farming

MILK PRICE: Farmers paid 16% less in a year, and half of Welsh milk leaves Wales

The price dairy farmers get for their milk has dropped by 16.3% in a year, and nearly half of all…

Ysgol Meidrim's red-brick gabled school building behind red railings, with the school's name painted in large red letters along a front wall decorated with flowers, butterflies and toadstools
Carmarthenshire

MEIDRIM: Village school will close at Christmas after councillors vote it through

Ysgol Meidrim's 24 pupils move to Hafodwenog or Ysgol Griffith Jones in January, and Ysgol Y Fro, which has none…

The glass and stone frontage of Westminster Magistrates Court in London, with the royal coat of arms above the entrance
animal cruelty

CARMARTHEN: Three men charged with conspiring to supply unfit meat after food crime investigation

Two of them also face an animal cruelty charge. All seven defendants are due at Southwark Crown Court next month.

Map of south-west Wales showing the Gwynt Glas wind farm area in the Celtic Sea and a red dashed scoping boundary running north-east to the Carmarthen Bay coast, from Tenby and Folly Farm to Burry Port and Llandyfaelog
Burry Port

CELTIC SEA: Giant floating wind farm will come ashore at Carmarthen Bay, with every cable underground

The floating wind farm's cables would end at a village already braced for contested pylon lines coming the other way.…

The front of Ysgol Bro Banw primary school in Ammanford, a red-brick building with a Croeso Welcome sign
Carmarthenshire Council

CARMARTHENSHIRE: Parents get one week to have their say on Welsh-medium switch at four primary schools

Two of the four schools are the ones lined up to take in children from village schools facing the axe.

Dyfed-Powys Police custody photograph of James McKenna, a bald man with a white beard
attempted murder

CARMARTHEN: Man who spent the day hunting his ex-partner with a knife jailed for 24 years

He packed a kitchen knife before he left home, then spent the day looking for her. Detectives call what happened…