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Police officers, council officials and partners standing together in Dyfatty, Swansea, during the launch of a crime reduction project
antisocial behaviour

DYFATTY: Anti-social behaviour down 37% and 143 arrests as police hand the crackdown to the council

The Clear phase of Clear, Hold, Build is over after nine months. Police say drug trafficking reports fell by nearly…

20mph road sign
20mph

20MPH: Fewest spring crashes on record outside Covid, says Welsh Government, three years after the limit came in

Collisions on 20 and 30mph roads are down 37% on the last spring before the change, statisticians say. They also…

Custody photograph of Mustafa Al-Khafaji
Cardiff Crown Court

SWANSEA: Crack dealer jailed after police rang a drugs line and found the phone by a mattress

Officers rang the number they were investigating. The phone was beside a mattress.

Custody photograph of Gavin Smith, 44, from Pontlliw
Cannabis

PONTLLIW: Man jailed over plan to hide drugs inside rope and ship them to New Zealand

Police went to arrest him over something else. His phone was in the microwave, and it led them to a…

domestic abuse

LLANELLI: PC sacked for chasing a colleague he suspected was a domestic abuse victim

A misconduct panel also found he saved a witness’s number on his own phone after taking a statement about a…

Custody photographs of Craig Godfrey, left, and Michaela Nicholls, right, side by side
assault

ST HELEN’S ROAD: Couple jailed after woman’s ex was stabbed in the neck in a 6am street fight

He thought he’d been punched. CCTV shows traffic trying to get round the fight.

The River Tawe in Swansea seen from the western bank, with the tree-covered former railway land of the St Thomas development site opposite and the river bridges in the distance
HM Coastguard

SWANSEA: Treboeth man, 55, dies after being pulled from the River Tawe

Emergency services were called to the river on Sunday lunchtime. Police say there are no suspicious circumstances.

Head-and-shoulders photo of Clifford Foster, a grey-haired man in a white hooded top, against a cream wall
Bridgend

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…

Two South Wales Police officers in helmets and hi-vis sit on yellow and black Sur-Ron electric motorbikes on a tarmac path, with a police drone on the ground in front of them
antisocial behaviour

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…

Eleanor Barnfield smiling in a navy puffer jacket and blue rucksack on a rocky path beside a waterfall
Bridgend

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…

Police custody photograph of Damien Samuel, a man with short dark hair and a goatee beard in a grey top
Damien Samuel

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…