Porthcawl

Aerial view of Porthcawl seafront, with the town in the foreground, the harbour on the right and a wide sandy beach curving away towards caravans in the distance
Bridgend County Borough Council

PORTHCAWL: Padel, crazy golf and street food could fill the old Coney Beach site next summer

The council wants local businesses to pop up on the seafront while the bigger plans take shape, and the ones…

An artificial grass 3G pitch with a football goal
3G sports pitch

PORTHCAWL: Floodlit 3G pitch planned at the comprehensive, with club hire from £22.50 an hour and grants lined up to pay for it

A seven-a-side artificial pitch would replace the school's worn-out one, open to clubs on evenings, weekends and in the holidays.…

Custody photograph of Gavin Bennett
Cardiff Crown Court

PORTHCAWL: Man who ran into the sea to escape arrest is jailed for sexual offences

Officers followed Gavin Bennett into the dark water off Porthcawl seafront to bring him out. He has now been jailed…

Beth Morgan in a yellow RNLI lifeguard top holding binoculars and looking out over a busy beach
lifeguard

PORTHCAWL: Lifeguard, 21, helped design the RNLI’s new beach huts. Now she works out of one at Trecco Bay

Beth Morgan started lifeguarding at 17. This year the engineering student was invited to the RNLI's design team to help…

A red mobile crane lifts a blue lattice tower crane section over Victorian terraced houses under a blue sky in Porthcawl
Andrew Scott Ltd

PORTHCAWL: Tower crane rises over the Grand Pavilion as the rebuild begins

A tower crane now stands beside the Grade II listed seafront landmark, with the steel frame for its new extension…

Police custody photograph of Christopher Phillips, a man in his sixties with grey hair and glasses, wearing a dark jumper
benefit fraud

PORTHCAWL: Son jailed for hiding mother’s body in freezer and claiming £78,000 of her benefits

Christopher Phillips kept Sylvia Phillips in a chest freezer at their home for almost three years after she died, telling…

A large white observation wheel towering over Sandy Bay beach in Porthcawl, with houses and the seafront wall behind
Bridgend County Borough Council

PORTHCAWL: ‘Porthcawl Eye’ big wheel opens over the seafront for the summer holidays

The giant white observation wheel at Salt Lake is the centrepiece of the town's new seasonal funfair, in Porthcawl's first…

An aerial artist impression of the new Mynydd Cynffig Primary School at Kenfig Hill, showing the school building with solar panels, sports pitches, play areas and a car park
allotment

NEW SCHOOLS: Green light for Porthcawl’s Welsh-medium seedling school and all-new Kenfig Hill primary

Bridgend County Borough Council planners have approved a Welsh-medium seedling school alongside Porthcawl Primary and a new-build home for Mynydd…

The translucent polycarbonate facade of Y Storfa in Swansea city centre, with glazed ground floor, living green walls and shoppers passing
City Deal

RICS AWARDS: Y Storfa named Wales’ Project of the Year — as Llanelli’s Pentre Awel and Porthcawl’s Sker House complete a near clean sweep

The former BHS reborn as Swansea's civic hub took the top prize at the Wales property awards — with three…

Kylie Minogue laughing with Quentin Tarantino at a table during filming in Porthcawl
Chris Elmore MP

PORTHCAWL: Quentin Tarantino becomes Vice President of town’s male voice choir

The Hollywood director worked with Porthcawl Male Voice Choir members while filming in the town last month — now he's…

Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs smiling outside a village shop, Jones holding a clapperboard reading "Better Later", on the comedy's first day of filming.
BBC

RUTH JONES: Cameras roll on new BBC comedy ‘Better Later’ — 35 years after star first met her co-writer

Filming has begun on a warm new BBC comedy co-written by and starring Porthcawl-raised Ruth Jones and her long-time friend…