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Met Office map showing the yellow wind warning area for Storm Austen covering south Wales, including Swansea, and southern England on Friday 23 October
heavy rain

STORM AUSTEN: 70mph gusts possible as the first named storm of the season hits south Wales on Friday

A yellow wind warning covers Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire from the early hours, and forecasters say it could…

Two Asian elephants, one dark and one pale, grazing side by side in a grassy field under a blue sky
Adam Price MS

LLANPUMSAINT: Elephant sanctuary that says it cut a £1,000-a-week power bill to almost nothing gets £251,545 for batteries

Skanda Vale’s wind turbine and solar panels save it more than £40,000 a year, the Welsh Government says. The new…

The Gothic stone building of Swansea Mosque and Islamic Community Centre with its tall pinnacled tower and a modern grey extension
Adam Price MS

SWANSEA MOSQUE: Energy savings to fund winter warm packs for food bank users

The centre on St Helen’s Road is getting battery storage and a new heating system. It also runs a baby…

Black and white dairy cows walking on green pasture with Welsh hills in the background. Image credit: FUW.
Dairy Farming

MILK PRICE: Farmers paid 16% less in a year, and half of Welsh milk leaves Wales

The price dairy farmers get for their milk has dropped by 16.3% in a year, and nearly half of all…

A Carmarthenshire Council recycling lorry with coloured compartments, parked behind blue, red and orange reusable sacks, a white battery sack and black food caddies
black bags

CARMARTHENSHIRE: Your black bag day could change next month, even if you keep blue bags

Collection rounds are being redrawn across the whole county from Monday 2 November, not just for homes switching to the…

Map of south-west Wales showing the Gwynt Glas wind farm area in the Celtic Sea and a red dashed scoping boundary running north-east to the Carmarthen Bay coast, from Tenby and Folly Farm to Burry Port and Llandyfaelog
Burry Port

CELTIC SEA: Giant floating wind farm will come ashore at Carmarthen Bay, with every cable underground

The floating wind farm's cables would end at a village already braced for contested pylon lines coming the other way.…

Wind turbines on the skyline above clear-felled forestry and young conifers on the South Wales Valleys uplands
Afan Valley

PEATLANDS: Almost £2m from the Lottery to bring the bogs back above the Afan and Neath valleys

The partnership that turned a drained plantation above Glyncorrwg back into bog is returning with a bigger plan for the…

Residents seated in rows in a high-ceilinged room listen to a speaker with a microphone beside a panel table, with a screen listing the evening's speakers
Gower Society

SWANSEA: Residents’ worries about the city’s rivers and beaches are heading to Welsh Water

Torsten Bell says what he heard at his Turning the Tides meeting will be put to the company. Here’s why…

An oil tank in a farmyard
Boiler Upgrade Scheme

HEATING OIL: Prices are back above the spring peak as winter starts, and suppliers are to be regulated for the first time

Around 100,000 Welsh homes off the gas grid buy their heating with fewer protections than anyone on a mains supply.…

A pile of fly-tipped plasterboard sheets, plastic sheeting, white uPVC trim and metal beading on a grass verge beside brambles
Cllr Scott Jones

CWMGWRACH: Rhondda man taken on to clear building waste dumped it on the road to Unity Mine

Shane Richards was taken on to get rid of plasterboard and plaster from an address in Treherbert. It turned up…