South Wales Police

A Street View image of St Helen's Road in Swansea, with the YMCA building on the right and shops lining the street
Sandfields

ST HELEN’S ROAD: Man arrested and road closed after second serious assault in two months

A 36-year-old man is in custody and a 40-year-old is in hospital after police were called to St Helen's Road…

Four South Wales Police vehicles parked across a road junction in Gorseinon
Ceiran Evans

GORSEINON: Two more men charged with murder of Ceiran Evans

Elliot Truelove, 33, from West Cross, and Liam Thomas, 18, from Morriston, have both been charged with murder and attempted…

South Wales Police custody image of Ashley John, a man with short dark hair, on a grey background with the force's bilingual watermark
Gwaun Cae Gurwen

GWAUN CAE GURWEN: Man jailed over sexual messages to ’12-year-old girl’ on Snapchat

Ashley John, 26, sent explicit images and requested indecent images from a profile he believed belonged to a 12-year-old girl,…

Passengers using Transport for Wales ticket gates with yellow contactless tap pads and a bilingual tap-out sign
Neath Railway Station

TRAINS: Neath and Swansea stations get new ticket gates and video help points this month

Each station faces a five-day installation with manual ticket checks, Neath from 17 August and Swansea from 24 August, as…

Police custody photograph of Christopher Phillips, a man in his sixties with grey hair and glasses, wearing a dark jumper
benefit fraud

PORTHCAWL: Son jailed for hiding mother’s body in freezer and claiming £78,000 of her benefits

Christopher Phillips kept Sylvia Phillips in a chest freezer at their home for almost three years after she died, telling…

Custody photographs of Junior Evans and Kurtis James side by side
assault

PORT TALBOT: ‘Cowardly’ trio sentenced over violent robbery that left man in hospital

Two 19-year-olds have been locked up and a teenage boy given a referral order over a November attack in which…

A South Wales Police officer in a hi-vis jacket with bilingual Heddlu and Police wording walks towards colleagues detaining a handcuffed man in an underpass, with a police scooter in the foreground
Bonymaen

SWANSEA: Boys of 14 among seven arrested as police pull six bikes off the streets

Dramatic police footage shows armed officers stinging two fleeing scooters and a stolen bike pulled out of an underpass —…

Crowds on the sand at Aberavon Beach on a sunny day, with an RNLI lifeguard vehicle and flags on the beach and the promenade behind
Aberavon

ABERAVON: Birmingham pensioner arrested on suspicion of carrying blade after beachfront anti-social behaviour report

Police called to the seafront on Monday found the man was already in breach of bail conditions — with the…

Liam Harmer, who sold the Big Issue in Sketty, Swansea, for more than 15 years
Big Issue

TOWNHILL: ‘One of the kindest’ — Big Issue seller Liam Harmer named as man who died in Elphin Gardens flat fire

The man who died in a flat fire in Townhill on Tuesday has been named as Liam Harmer, a Big…

A Google Street View image of Elphin Gardens in Townhill, Swansea, a residential street of semi-detached houses on a hillside
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

TOWNHILL: Man dies in Elphin Gardens flat fire — as police try to trace his next of kin

A man died at the scene of a fire at a first-floor flat in Elphin Gardens on Tuesday afternoon. Police…