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The Oldway Centre student block on High Street, Swansea, with its tower rising behind the lower High Street extension
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SWANSEA: The £45m student tower by High Street station wants to let 28 rooms to workers instead

The Oldway Centre opened in 2019 after a £45m conversion. Its owners say student numbers have fallen and the 556-bed…

The Pantygwydr Restaurant in Swansea's Sandfields. (Image: Astleys)
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SWANSEA: Nearly 20 years of French dining could give way to 13 rented rooms at the Pantygwydr

Plans to turn the Sandfields landmark on the corner of Oxford Street into two shared houses are now formally with…

Aerial view of the single runway and apron at Swansea Airport on Fairwood Common, with hangars and parked cars alongside
Civil Aviation Authority

SWANSEA AIRPORT: Licence suspended again, eight months after the council said its future was secure

Inspectors from the Civil Aviation Authority turned up unannounced at Fairwood Common and the aerodrome licence was suspended, the airport…

A dressmaker working at a sewing machine in her studio with a camera on a tripod beside her
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SWANSEA: The city makes the UK top 20 for people trying to turn a hobby into a business

Swansea is 20th and Cardiff 11th in a ranking of where people search hardest for how to make money from…

Four portraits side by side of the new North Gate Swansea board members
Building a Better Dyfatty

NORTH GATE SWANSEA: The four residents who will help decide how £20m is spent on your streets

A headteacher, a community manager, a Brynmelyn volunteer of 30 years and a man whose grandparents ran the Palace Theatre…

Two men standing behind a stone memorial wall at Penrhos carved with three faces and Welsh inscriptions
Opera

PENYBERTH: The night three men burned down an RAF bombing school is coming to a Swansea stage

Fflamau Penyberth, a new opera marking 90 years since the 1936 arson attack that fired up Welsh nationalism, reaches Taliesin…

M0Li, a singer with dark curly hair and red lipstick, photographed against red velvet curtains
Amphitheatre

SWANSEA: Free music festival Amplitude returns this weekend, the full line-up and times for the amphitheatre’s first outing under its new roof

Twelve acts over two days at the seafront amphitheatre outside the LC on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August, with…

View from the grassy summit of Kilvey Hill over Swansea city centre and the curve of Swansea Bay towards Mumbles under a blue sky
Kilvey Hill

KILVEY HILL: Five weeks of piling at Landore, eight weeks of summit groundworks, and no more paths to close, Skyline says

The developer's latest update puts timescales on the next phase of the £49m gondola and luge scheme: foundations for the…

Three teenage girls huddled together reading a GCSE results slip in a school hall, one with a look of surprise
Carmarthenshire Council

GCSE RESULTS: Swansea’s top grades rise and Carmarthenshire beats the Wales pass rate as pupils across the region collect results

23% of entries in Swansea schools were A* or A, up on last year and well above the Wales average.…

A row of blue portable toilet cabins beside the Civic Centre in a car park with disabled bays, palm trees and Swansea Bay in the background
Changing Places

SWANSEA: Five portable loos in a car park, the seafront’s first public toilets since the Civic Centre shut

Beachgoers outside the Civic Centre have had nowhere to go since the building closed in December. Now five blue cabins…

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