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Artist's impression of a single-storey children's centre with white and sage green walls, a blue elephant painted beside the windows and Hywel Dda NHS signage at the entrance
Bandi Appeal

CARMARTHEN: After 27 years and £1.1m raised, new children’s centre finds its preferred home

Hywel Dda has named Tudor House at St David's Park as the preferred site for the purpose-built children's centre funded…

Five men in hi-vis vests holding hard hats in front of new detached houses at Priory Fields, St Clears
construction

NEW HOMES: 31 more houses for St Clears and Carmarthen as developers land £7.5m

Twenty-four homes, seven of them affordable, go up at Priory Fields in St Clears, and seven more on the old…

Studio portrait of Mair Lloyd of Llangunnor, smiling, wearing glasses and a pale blouse
Carmarthen

LLANGUNNOR: Tributes to Mair Lloyd, ‘a great Carmarthen character’, who has died aged 98

Twice chair of Llangunnor Community Council, a fixture of the knit and natter clubs and press officer for Carmarthen Fuchsia…

A row of new stone and render houses on the Maes Pedr estate in Carmarthen West
Affordable Housing

CARMARTHEN: Additional 84 homes approved on fields off A40 near Travellers Rest

The next piece of the 1,100-home Carmarthen West scheme goes on the land between the A40 Travellers Rest junction and…

Aerial view of a large blackened burn scar covering a coastal headland above a beach, smoke drifting and fire engines on a track below
Carmarthenshire Council

PENDINE: ‘Before there is loss of life’: urgent bid to bar vehicles from Morfa Bychan after cliff fire

Draft minutes of an extraordinary community council meeting reveal the fire came close to a Welsh Water pumping station and…

spectacular lightning storm over a river at night
Met Office

WEATHER: All of south west Wales under thunderstorm warning from 5am on Thursday

The Met Office says torrential downpours, lightning and hail could bring flash flooding, travel disruption and power cuts between 5am…

Custody image of Jordan Richards with the Dyfed-Powys Police watermark
Ammanford

AMMANFORD: Child rapist jailed for 21 years as survivor says ‘we are not victims, we are survivors’

Jordan Richards admitted 36 sexual offences against the same child, committed in the Ammanford area between 2012 and 2016, after…

Custody image of Florin Kasmi against a grey background with the Dyfed-Powys Police watermark
Cannabis

CARMARTHEN: Londoner caught with £40,000 of cannabis in town car park jailed

Officers found 4.5kg of cannabis vacuum-sealed in the boot of Florin Kasmi's white MG on Little Water Street, along with…

Street‑level view of the former Debenhams building in St Catherine’s Walk, Carmarthen, showing the large multi‑storey frontage.
Atriwm

CARMARTHEN: Cost of turning old Debenhams into Atriwm more than doubles to £41m

The council says structural problems that only came to light once contractors opened the building up will cost £4.2m to…

Carmarthenshire

LLANGENNECH: Six years on, Network Rail wants £5m from the firms behind the diesel train fire

The rail body has gone to the High Court against the company that ran the train and the company that…