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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…

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Bristol Channel ferry

SWANSEA FERRY: Report promised £15 fares, but the leader ‘couldn’t tell you’ what a ticket would cost

One councillor wondered whether the 98% who backed the crossing would still say yes at £150 a return. The leader's…

The blue Admiral sign with its pink swoosh on the front of an Admiral office
Adam Price MS

ADMIRAL: Nearly 2,000 Swansea staff still don’t know if their jobs are among the 500 to go

Swansea's council leader has written to the insurer's UK boss demanding "urgent clarification", as a Swansea MS tells the Senedd…

A smiling toddler in a striped jumper holding a blue bar on playground equipment
Care Inspectorate Wales

MAYHILL: Police investigate after toddler gets out of nursery, and a stranger says she found him in the road

A woman driving up Gors Avenue says she found two-year-old Noah walking alone in the middle of the road. Seren…

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.

benefits

COST OF LIVING: People are turning down jobs because they can’t afford the fuel to get there, council’s own team tells inquiry

Swansea Council's employment mentors say clients have rejected job offers over the cost of getting to work, cannot afford the…

Artist's impression of a gold-clad hotel tower with a rooftop bar beside the white curved wall of Swansea Arena, with people walking in the square below
Cllr Andrew Williams

SWANSEA: The council’s own study says the city needs more hotels. The one it promised beside the arena is still grass

Two and a half years after Rob Stewart said Swansea needed three new hotels, and two years after a developer…

A tarmac shared-use path with timber edging running straight ahead between trees in full leaf, dappled with sunlight
Active Travel

CYCLE PATH UPGRADE: Popular Dunvant to Gowerton route to get £500k revamp

The 1.75km between the two villages is next in line for widening after the Blackpill to Dunvant stretch. Sections will…

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facebook

ALGORITHM OFF SWITCH: Gower’s MP wants you to be able to turn off what Facebook and TikTok decide you see

Tonia Antoniazzi has signed a letter from around 40 MPs asking the Culture Secretary to make social media firms offer…

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Christmas

CHRISTMAS PARADE: Santa’s back on Sunday 22 November, and the council’s new float hint points to infinity and beyond

Swansea's award-winning parade returns at 5pm on 22 November on last year's route from the Guildhall to Princess Way, with…