Mumbles

Sam Ward-Jones in a pink T-shirt and sunglasses, smiling with her arms outstretched in front of a crowd of people in matching pink T-shirts
Breast Cancer

MUMBLES: Mum’s breast cancer came back nine years later, and this time it can’t be cured

Ten years on, Samantha Ward-Jones is still living with it. She wants people to know the signs, and that a…

The orange Mumbles RNLI all-weather lifeboat Roy Barker IV moored at Mumbles Pier on a sunny day, with the smaller orange inshore lifeboat alongside and crew members on deck, Swansea Bay visible in the background.
Cllr Chris Holley

MUMBLES: Councillor’s husband saved 92 lives on the lifeboat. She calls the abuse of RNLI crews ‘truly appalling’

Swansea councillors from all sides of the chamber lined up behind the lifeboat volunteers on Thursday night. One of them…

Aerial artist's impression of three blue padel courts and a landscaped car park on the former tennis courts beside the Oyster House, with Mumbles beach and the bay beyond
Cllr Andrew Stevens

MUMBLES: Businessman’s alternative padel plan would use £400,000 of his own money, so the council doesn’t have to

He wants a long lease on the old seafront tennis courts in return, and says he would run them either…

Blue and yellow Swansea Council sign reading Mumbles Gardens, Gerddi'r Mwmbwls, on the chain-link fence of the old tennis courts, saying the courts were funded by Mumbles Community Council
Blackpill Lido

MUMBLES: Campaign group’s alternative plan for the old tennis courts swaps the car park for a lido

The padel courts stay. The parking goes. Mumbles Action Group thinks the council has the wrong idea about what brings…

Aerial artist's impression of three blue padel courts and a landscaped car park on the former tennis courts beside the Oyster House, with Mumbles beach and the bay beyond
Cllr Andrew Stevens

MUMBLES: Padel courts to replace the old seafront tennis courts, and the car park is coming back

Three fenced courts between the Oyster House and the bowling green, a car park with charging bays and a path…

Bethan Evans smiling, seated in an armchair in a pink blazer and striped silk scarf
awards

SWANSEA: The care group boss behind two Swansea care homes is leading a national vote, and it closes today

Bethan Evans runs the company behind Hawthorn Court in Sketty and Ocean Living on the Mumbles seafront. She has been…

Wilf Tovey, a teenager in a dark T-shirt, holds a framed Impact Awards winner certificate and wooden RYA Cymru Wales trophy beside Sarah McGovern in front of an RYA Cymru Wales and Welsh Sailing backdrop
awards

MUMBLES: The 16-year-old sailor who’s always last up the beach, and now has an award for it

Wilf Tovey races for Wales in the ILCA 7 and spends his spare minutes in the boat park helping younger…

People in white protective suits examining the burnt-out kitchen at Verdi's in Mumbles, with scorched walls, ceiling and steel counters
featured

MUMBLES: Verdi’s aims for an Easter return, but the owner warns it could be summer

Insurers have accepted liability for July's fire at the Knab Rock café and the hunt is on for a contractor…

An elderly woman with white hair and glasses, in a patterned dress and cream cardigan, seated and holding a large bouquet of sunflowers and white flowers
care home

MUMBLES: Jean, 105, says the secret to a long life is ‘good parenting’

Jean Evans grew up in Neath, has lived in Mumbles since the 1960s and celebrated her 105th birthday at Newton…

Ryan and Lucy Hole standing on a sunny seafront promenade outside a timber-clad bar with festoon lights
business rates

RATES CUT: Verdi’s boss says only one of his five venues gets the 30% hospitality cut, and calls the £51,000 line “a cliff edge”

The Welsh Government announced on Tuesday that pubs, cafés, restaurants and gyms will get a permanent 30% business rates cut…

A blue Kia Sportage blocking a narrow concrete clifftop footpath, its front end against a wooden bench, with the sea beyond.
Cllr Will Thomas

MUMBLES: Second car in two months driven along the Gower coast path

Walkers found a brand new Kia jammed across the clifftop path between Langland and Mumbles lighthouse on Saturday morning, its…