Gorseinon

Black and white mural of boxer Colin Jones throwing a punch in red gloves and red shorts, on the wall of Penyrheol Boxing Club beneath the club sign.
Art

PENYRHEOL: ‘The Punch’ Colin Jones painted on the wall of his old boxing club

Artist Jenks has painted the Gorseinon-born former British, Commonwealth and European champion on the wall of Penyrheol Boxing Club.

Five people in hi-vis vests and hard hats stand outside a new red brick and dark-clad house at the Garden Village development
affordable homes

SCHOOL DELAY: Council asks for six-year delay on new Garden Village school promised with 750-home estate

Families are already moving in. The school they were sold is on a timetable that would surprise most of them.

Two-storey red-brick former working men's club on Brighton Road, Gorseinon, with G.W.C. carved above a shuttered doorway and windows boarded
Dawson's

GORSEINON: The workies that served the town for 100 years is being knocked down for houses

It shut just before Christmas 2023 with a "heartbreaking" post to its members, and went under the hammer. Now the…

The bilingual Ysbyty Gorseinon Gorseinon Hospital entrance sign on blue posts beneath pine trees
Gorseinon

GORSEINON HOSPITAL: The beds were coming back by March, then by September. Now the plan is that they never do

Swansea Bay's health board wants to permanently move Gorseinon Hospital's 30 inpatient beds to Singleton, promising an expanded community health…

Four South Wales Police vehicles parked across a road junction in Gorseinon
assisting an offender

GORSEINON: Fourth person charged in connection with death of Ceiran Evans

Trisha Thomas, 36, from Gorseinon, has been charged with assisting an offender, South Wales Police said. Three men already face…

Five Mid and West Wales firefighters sitting on a scorched hillside eating sausage and chips, with burnt gorse behind them and green hills beyond
Gorseinon

GORSEINON: The firefighters in this photo have a free chippy tea waiting for them

Roma 2000 shared a picture of five firefighters taking a well-earned break on the blackened hillside, and made the crew…

Four South Wales Police vehicles parked across a road junction in Gorseinon
Ceiran Evans

GORSEINON: Two more men charged with murder of Ceiran Evans

Elliot Truelove, 33, from West Cross, and Liam Thomas, 18, from Morriston, have both been charged with murder and attempted…

The former Kirstie's Vintage Emporium shopfront on Gorseinon High Street between the Yellow Cabs taxi office and Noah's Ark daycare
bank closure

GORSEINON: Banking hub to open at former High Street vintage shop in September

The temporary hub at 20 High Street, the old Kirstie's Vintage Emporium opposite Home Bargains, will open weeks before the…

Kelly Fountain standing in front of the redeveloped Gorseinon campus entrance with the college's pink signage behind her
campus redevelopment

GORSEINON: £20.6m college rebuild complete as new-look campus opens for September

Students returning to Gower College Swansea's Gorseinon campus next month will find new classrooms, refurbished science labs, a full-height atrium…

Five people in hi-vis vests and hard hats stand outside a new red brick and dark-clad house at the Garden Village development
affordable homes

GARDEN VILLAGE: Council buys 141 homes at new estate, 70 for the housing waiting list

Swansea Council has bought the affordable homes at Persimmon's Garden Village development outright, the first time it has done so,…

CGI of a tree-lined street of new brick homes with a family walking
3M

GORSEINON: Up to 400 homes planned for former 3M factory site

Early plans have been lodged to turn the former 3M factory site on Gorseinon Road into a neighbourhood of up…