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The shuttered Swansea Market shop on St Helens Road with court closure notices taped to the shutter
Cllr Andrew Williams

ST HELEN’S ROAD: Two vape shops shut again as council vows to keep coming back

Test purchases found Swansea Market and Kubas Superstore still selling fake tobacco and illegal vapes. Both have been closed before,…

Exterior of the Bagle Brook in Baglan, showing the sign, entrance and picnic benches
Baglan

BAGLAN: Bagle Brook is coming back, under the new owner of 57 old Whitbread restaurants

Shut since September, the Baglan institution has turned up on a new company’s opening list. Who they are, and when…

The red graffiti-covered shutter of Asia Vape on St Helen's Road, Swansea, with court closure notices taped to it under the shop's purple and pink sign
Cllr Andrew Williams

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…

The turquoise-fronted former Rainbow childrenswear boutique at 29 Uplands Crescent, next to The Bookshop cocktail bar, in a terrace of gabled Victorian shops
Post Office

UPLANDS: Post Office wants to move out of Uplands News and into the old Rainbow childrenswear shop

The branch would go 130 metres up Uplands Crescent to the empty boutique at number 29, refurbished with a convenience…

Aerial view of Swansea Marina with boats, waterfront apartments, the National Waterfront Museum and the city stretching towards the hills.
Cllr Rob Stewart

GROWTH CASH: Got a £500k idea? Under two weeks to bid, and there’s a catch

The region’s councils want big ideas that can grow the economy. Every project has to be finished by December 2028.

Aerial view of the Port Talbot waterfront at Harbourside, with industrial yards and scrubland beside the water and the town and hills behind.
Adam Price MS

PORT TALBOT: £9.2m to turn waterfront land into six business units and room for floating wind

Two of the four Celtic Freeport projects sharing £18.4m are in Port Talbot. Neither has a start date or a…

Three shopfronts inside the Quadrant Shopping Centre — a TGJones store on the left, the Post Office and Swyddfa'r Post in the middle, and a Toys R Us store on the right, with two shoppers walking past on a polished tiled floor.
Bridgend

SWANSEA: TGJones confirms closure date for the Quadrant’s old WHSmith

Swansea's former WHSmith in the Quadrant has been given a closing date. The Post Office inside it will shut days…

Jacob Lovell of Lovell Roofing, Gowerton, holding his Roofer of the Year trophy and a bottle of champagne at the Checkatrade Regional Awards for Midlands and Wales
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GOWERTON: Roofer Jacob Lovell crowned the best in Wales and the Midlands

Lovell Roofing's boss came home from Wolverhampton with a trophy, a bottle of champagne and a date in London next…

Swansea Council's lead trading standards officer Rhys Harries with two South Wales Police officers in front of the closed shutters of Monsoon Vape in Morriston, with court closure notices displayed
Cllr Andrew Williams

MORRISTON: Two vape shops shut down after undercover officers bought illegal vapes and fake tobacco

Four people were arrested and a suspected delivery vehicle seized in the raids that followed, Swansea Council says.

The blast furnaces and stoves at Tata's Port Talbot steelworks at sunset, with steam rising from the pipework
blast furnace

PORT TALBOT: Tata found guilty after two steelworkers breathed in gas at 18 times the safe limit

The pair stayed behind until every contractor was out, and now the steel giant faces a fine.

Yellow store closing down posters in the windows of the TGJones shop at Parc Trostre retail park in Llanelli
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LLANELLI: Closing-down signs go up at TGJones in Trostre, the third of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go

Staff say the shop that was WHSmith until last year has weeks left. The chain has still not announced a…