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Two CES workers fitting solar panels on a rooftop before the company ceased trading.
Energy

SOLAR PANELS: Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire among Wales’s solar hotspots — but Swansea and Neath Port Talbot lag behind

New analysis of government data has revealed a striking divide in solar…

By
Kit Peters
5 Min Read
Two firefighters in yellow protective gear and breathing apparatus directing a hose into smouldering debris at the Port Talbot Dock Road fire site
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

PORT TALBOT: Fire enters controlled phase as road closures lifted and air quality monitoring deployed

The major fire at Water Street in Port Talbot is entering a…

By
Kit Peters
4 Min Read
Aerial view of a large wildfire burning across Fairwood Common on Gower, with a line of orange flames advancing across dry grassland and a thick plume of grey smoke rising into the sky, with a road and fields visible in the distance
Gower

GOWER: Fire crews tackle two wildfires in 24 hours -Fairwood Common and Cefn Bryn – as bank holiday fire risk soars

Fire crews have tackled two major wildfires on the Gower Peninsula within…

By
Kit Peters
5 Min Read
A woman sits on a large limestone rock on Cefn Bryn common on the Gower Peninsula, watching a golden sunset over the Bristol Channel, with rolling green grassland and scattered rocks stretching into the foreground
Environment and Farming

GOWER: The UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty turns 70 – here’s why it’s still one of Britain’s most special places

By
Kit Peters
7 Min Read
Map outlines Persimmon’s proposed 216‑home Fairwood Terrace development in Gowerton, now at appeal after council refusal over traffic concerns.
Gowerton

GOWERTON: Persimmon’s Fairwood Terrace plans dealt massive blow as Welsh Government orders full environmental assessment

Campaigners fighting Persimmon Homes' proposed 216-home development at Fairwood Terrace in Gowerton…

By
Kit Peters
9 Min Read
Five firefighters from Kidwelly Fire Station holding rescued lambs at night after culvert rescue.
Farming

KIDWELLY: Firefighters rescue three lambs trapped 20 metres underground in stone culvert

Crews from Kidwelly Fire Station rescued three lambs trapped 20 metres down…

By
Kit Peters
2 Min Read
Surface water flooding across the Killay Square junction, with cars driving slowly through deep pooled water.
Environment and Farming

FLOOD FIX: Funding confirmed to finally tackle Killay Square and Gower road misery after years of chaos

An £800,000 drainage scheme at Killay Square is set to go ahead…

By
Kit Peters
6 Min Read
Ben Williams in the laboratory at Swansea University's Medical School.
Environment and Farming

Worm researcher from Llanelli wins £110,000 scholarship to study how medicines pollute our rivers

Ben Williams thought he was just applying for a scholarship. He ended…

By
Kit Peters
5 Min Read
A long wall of orange flames burning across dry moorland vegetation at Cefn Bryn in Gower, with dark smoke rising into a cloudy sky.
Environment and Farming

GOWER: Seven fire crews tackle 120-hectare blaze on Cefn Bryn as windy conditions hamper efforts

Seven fire stations were called to a major grass fire on Cefn…

By
Kit Peters
6 Min Read
fox on farm
Ammanford

PONTARDDULAIS: Man handed suspended sentence in first conviction in Wales for illegal animal snares

A Pontarddulais man has become the first person convicted in Wales for…

By
Kit Peters
4 Min Read
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