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A grey-haired man in a blue checked shirt holding a robot control panel among automation equipment in a lab
manufacturing

SA1: Swansea firms will be able to try out robots before they buy, at a new university hub

Boston Dynamics and ABB are among the names backing it. The point isn’t to build robots, it’s to help businesses…

Four Carmarthenshire village primary schools in a two-by-two grid, each labelled: Ysgol Carwe, Ysgol Pontiets with its 150th anniversary banner, Ysgol Bancffosfelen and Ysgol Blaenau
Bancffosfelen

SCHOOL CLOSURES: Four more Carmarthenshire village schools face the axe, three of them in the Gwendraeth Valley

Blaenau was saved five years ago. Carway's children haven't been inside their own school for more than a year. Now…

A group of protesters, including children, stand on the steps of County Hall in Carmarthen holding banners and placards opposing the closure of Ysgol y Fro, Llangyndeyrn, on a wet day.
Carmarthenshire

MEIDRIM: Village school down to 24 pupils ahead of final vote on Christmas closure

Six children have already left Ysgol Meidrim. On Wednesday, councillors decide whether the school shuts for good, along with a…

Architect's render of Ysgol Calon Lân seen from Mynydd Garnllwyd Road, a single-storey brick building with its name on the facade behind a fence, hedges and young trees
additional learning needs

MORRISTON: Cabinet to decide on land for Swansea’s new 350-place special school

Eight people answered the legal notice on the Ysgol Calon Lân land off Mynydd Garnllwyd Road, all objecting. The papers…

Gowerton School
Cllr Robert Smith

GOWERTON: Old grammar school building to come down in £47m school rebuild

The council's announcement talks of keeping historic elements where possible. The papers going to cabinet next week name the block…

Five people in hi-vis vests and hard hats stand outside a new red brick and dark-clad house at the Garden Village development
affordable homes

SCHOOL DELAY: Council asks for six-year delay on new Garden Village school promised with 750-home estate

Families are already moving in. The school they were sold is on a timetable that would surprise most of them.

Six people stand beneath a red and green balloon arch with a ribbon and oversized scissors at the SPAR opening.
Costcutter

SWANSEA: SPAR replaces university’s longstanding Costcutter

The Singleton campus shop has kept its existing team, with additional paid student roles announced and a wider food range…

The front of Ysgol Gymraeg Ystalyfera, a brick and dark-panelled school building behind black fencing, with the school's welcome sign in front and the valley hillside behind
Cllr Nia Jenkins

YSTALYFERA BRO DUR: 1,600-pupil Welsh-medium school to be split in two, with a head for each campus

Neath Port Talbot Council wants separate schools in Ystalyfera and Sandfields from September 2028. Pupils would stay where they are,…

back view of the students sitting inside the classroom
Fixed Penalty Notice

NEATH PORT TALBOT: Council fines 159 parents and takes 48 to court after kids skip school

The fines and prosecutions came in the 2025/26 school year, as attendance slipped and 638 pupils were excluded. One year…

Exterior view of Ysgol Heol Goffa special school in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.
Anna Brychan MS

YSGOL HEOL GOFFA: Health minister said 2027. Education minister says no timescale. Still no nurse

Parents at the Llanelli special school were told in August that the rules on who does medical tasks in schools…