Environment and Farming
SWANSEA: 560 missed bin collections a week, and the council says the rate is ‘very good’
Three in every thousand. That is the miss rate the council is quoting to councillors, and it adds up to…
PORT TALBOT: Grid firm opens £1.06m community fund and wants telling where to spend it
The company building the substations for the furnace is giving the town a community fund to go with them, with…
AFAN FOREST: NRW sets out ten years of felling and replanting for the valley’s forest and bike trails
Natural Resources Wales has published its draft plan for what gets felled, replanted and restored over the next decade. Comments…
KENFIG: Burst sewage main caused four of Welsh Water’s nine serious pollution incidents in its worst year on record
The Marlas main is now a £30m replacement job. NRW keeps the company on two stars for a fourth year,…
CASTLEMARTIN: Rare beetle that hitches rides on bees found breeding at its only Welsh home
Earlier searches found only dead adults. Then, on the project’s last survey, they spotted larvae.
PYLONS: Labour warns Plaid’s plan to bury power lines could push up bills
Reform and the Conservatives want new lines underground. Labour warns it could land on your bills, and ministers have yet…
TOWY VALLEY: Ministers want new power lines buried by default. So what happens to the 22-metre poles?
Buried by default, steel pylons scrapped: that is the Welsh Government’s plan for new power lines. Where does it leave…
PORT TALBOT: Waste man took £490 to clear a house, then 14 bags were dumped under the M4
Nathan Pearce drove the load to Briton Ferry recycling centre, spoke to staff and left, the council says. It turned…
STORM AUSTEN: ‘Take extra care on the Friday morning commute’ as the warning stretches to 5pm
Trees are in leaf and likely to come down across roads and railways, the Met Office says. Every council area…
STORM AUSTEN: Yellow warning for south Wales extended to 2pm on Friday as Met Office raises the risk, with Cornwall and Devon on amber
Gusts of 50 to 60mph are still forecast for Swansea Bay, with 70mph or more on exposed coasts, but forecasters…
COAL TIPS: Neath Port Talbot has 42 rated a potential danger, 60 years after Aberfan
Campaigners say homes near the riskiest tips pay 40% more to insure. Their own figures show the gap comes from…