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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 —…

PC Andrew Harper smiling in a black and white photograph
Dyfed Powys Police

DYFED-POWYS: Police federation branch stands with PC Andrew Harper’s family over killers’ early release

The branch has changed its social media profile picture to an image of the fallen officer for 72 hours —…

A Port Talbot Coastguard 4x4 search and rescue vehicle parked on the sand at dusk near the River Neath
Coastguard Rescue Officers

LLANELLI: Coastguard volunteers keep call-out pay as minister confirms U-turn to town’s MP

The Department for Transport has scrapped September's move to an "expenses-only" volunteer model — with the minister telling Dame Nia…

Flames and black smoke rising from a scaffolded section of Awel y Môr Primary School in Port Talbot
Awel Y Mor Primary School

PORT TALBOT: Children evacuated as fire breaks out at Awel y Môr Primary School

Staff at the Lots of Tots holiday playgroup were praised for their "calm and professional" evacuation of the children as…

Gwynoro Jones, former Labour MP for Carmarthen, speaking in a YouTube video
Carmarthen

SWANSEA CROWN COURT: Former Carmarthen MP, 83, cleared of groping woman on train

Gwynoro Jones, who represented Carmarthen for Labour in the 1970s, was found not guilty by a jury on Tuesday after…

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…

Crowds on the sand and in the sea at Aberavon Beach on a hot summer day, with an RNLI lifeguard truck parked near the shoreline
Aberavon

JELLYFISH: Why peeing on a sting won’t help — and what actually works, as beachgoer stung at Aberavon

It's the first thing everyone suggests, and it's wrong. A beachgoer was treated for a jellyfish sting at Aberavon this…

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…

Silhouettes of two people jumping from a rocky cliff into the sea, with others watching from the rocks (stock image — not the incident described in the article)
Langland Bay

MUMBLES: Lifeboat crew warn against tombstoning after teenagers cut off by tide between Limeslade and Langland

Two teenagers who had been jumping from the rocks near Ginny's Guy were rescued by Mumbles RNLI on Sunday evening…

Four RNLI lifeboat crew in yellow and red kit and helmets sitting on their lifeboat inside the Horton and Port Eynon station
Gower

GOWER: A first rescue with his father alongside — new lifeboat volunteer helps save two stranded at Oxwich Point

Jay Littlejohns answered his first shout for Horton and Port Eynon RNLI on Friday night — with his father Jeremy…