GWENDRAETH VALLEY: ‘Once you lose a school, it never comes back’: governors ask Welsh Government to halt closures

Three village schools facing closure have taken their fight to the Education Minister. The Welsh Government’s first reply has not…

BRIDGEND MURDER: Man charged with Eleanor Barnfield murder appears in court

He will appear at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday. The ambulance service has found no record of a 999 call…

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…

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.

SWANSEA: ‘Now he says hello to every person we pass’: how four years of support changed eight-year-old Jaiden’s world

His dad gave up work to care for a quiet, withdrawn boy at risk of being removed from school. Family…

ST HELEN’S ROAD: Asia Vape shut for a second time in a year as three more Swansea vape shops are closed

Magistrates have closed Vape City and Asia Vape on St Helen’s Road and Vape Zone on Dilwyn Street, the council…

ST HELEN’S: Verdi’s owner takes over the food at the Ospreys’ new ground, and promises ‘Swansea’s biggest party space’

Ryan Hole’s Secret Hospitality Group, which runs The Secret across the road, ROK and The Lighthouse, will run hospitality and…

SOUTH WALES POLICE: Officers get Sur-Rons of their own, the e-bikes they keep seizing in Swansea

The force says the lightweight electric motorbikes will get officers through traffic and down roads patrol cars can't reach. It…

BRIDGEND MURDER: Clifford Foster, 61, charged over the death of Eleanor Barnfield

He is due before Newport magistrates on Friday morning. Police say the case is not being investigated as a domestic…

PORT TALBOT: Man who raped a teenager after handing out vodka jailed for eight years

Damien Samuel, 44, denied it and took it to trial. The judge called the two-year wait for the case to…