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CGI render of a two-storey brick market hall with a large glazed arched entrance signed Neuadd y Farchnad Llanelli, Llanelli Market Hall.
Andrew Scott Ltd

LLANELLI: First look at the town’s new market hall — 14 shops, a first-floor café and a green-tiled frontage for Vaughan Street

Newly published plans reveal what will replace Llanelli's RAAC-hit indoor market — a two-storey hall with escalators, rooftop solar and…

A long sticky fly-paper strip covered in dozens of trapped flies, hanging from a kitchen ceiling light down to the worktop
AMG Resources

LLANELLI: ‘Like a plague’ — flies swarm Seaside homes and pubs as shops sell out of spray and the council investigates

Shops have sold out of fly spray and more than 800 residents have joined a Facebook group tracking the infestation…

Glangwili General Hospital in Carmarthen, the main entrance and hospital buildings
Carmarthen

GLANGWILI: Hospital ward closed by outbreak of crusted scabies — as contacts are offered treatment

Steffan Ward at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen is shut to patients after an outbreak of crusted scabies, a severe and…

Split image showing the exterior of the closed Frankie & Benny's in Llanelli and its abandoned interior with chairs stacked on the bar
B&R Urban Explorers UK

LLANELLI: Menus still in the window, salt on the tables — inside the Frankie & Benny’s frozen in time since 2020

Urban explorers' photographs show the Parc Pemberton restaurant much as staff left it when Covid closed the doors — as…

Custody image of Damien Jones
Dyfed Powys Police

LLANELLI: Rapist jailed for 22 years for ‘depraved’ child sex offences

Damien Jones, 40, denied any wrongdoing but was convicted of 16 offences against one girl — including rape of a…

Laugharne Castle and Boat house
aquaculture

LAUGHARNE: Wales’ oyster comeback starts on the Taf — as town lands share of £540,000 coastal fund

A purpose-built oyster "nursery" is to be created at Laugharne to breed native shellfish for reef restoration across Wales —…

Split-screen image showing Cllr David Darkin on the left and Llanelli Town Council leader Cllr Sean Rees on the right, both wearing glasses and formal clothing
Cllr Sean Rees

COVERT FILMING: Row erupts at Llanelli Town Council as motion to protect staff from being recorded is deferred

Labour councillors say a deferred motion has left Llanelli Town Council staff without protection from an "epidemic" of covert filming…

The clock tower of Swansea's Guildhall rising above trees, with cars parked in front of the building
Bridgend Council

COUNCIL DEBT: Swansea owes £629m — second highest in Wales — but council brands record borrowing figures ‘misleading’

New figures show councils across the UK owe a record £154.6 billion — and Swansea carries more debt than any…

Exterior view of Ysgol Heol Goffa special school in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.
Children's Commissioner for Wales

LLANELLI: Minister urged to step in over ‘lifesaving’ school nurse battle as mum warns of ‘preventable tragedy’

Llanelli Town Council has written to Wales' new health minister demanding action over the lack of a full-time nurse at…

Two workers in Morganstone hi-vis jackets and white hard hats looking out across a vast steelworks building with an overhead crane and excavated foundations
electric arc furnace

GREEN STEEL: Llanelli firm lands key contract on Port Talbot’s £1.25bn transformation — with work starting on site today

Morganstone — founded in Llanelli and now based in Swansea — will build the structural heart of the steelworks’ new…