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FFORESTFACH: Masked robber who pulled a knife on lone shop workers jailed for nine years
Shane Burne hit corner shops in Manselton, Brynhyfryd and Waunarlwydd over six weeks of late summer, picking the ones where…
WANTED: 27 arrested in a day across Swansea and Neath Port Talbot
Officers knocked on doors from Townhill to Port Talbot last Wednesday. Where they went, who they were after, and how…
KILVEY HILL: Woman, 87, among three charged after Skyline protest
Two women from Bishopston and St Thomas and a man from Caerphilly were arrested at the construction site on Sunday…
BRYNAMMAN: Man who beat woman in the street while on bail for abusing his ex jailed for 52 months
Cameron Morgan broke the woman’s nose and jaw on Cwmgarw Road after she turned him down. Swansea Crown Court heard…
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…
MAESTEG: Man, 73, jailed for almost 12 years for sexual offences against children spanning 30 years
Christopher Williams admitted 15 offences against several victims and was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on 21 October.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.