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Stephen Kinnock bends to lay a poppy wreath beside other wreaths at the foot of a red Welsh dragon sculpture on grass at Port Talbot steelworks
Port Talbot Steelworks

PORT TALBOT: Kinnock lays wreath 25 years after steelworks blast killed three men

Two of the men who died were in their twenties. A dozen more workers were seriously hurt.

The orange and black dredging vessel Melwey on the water beside the stone and steel quay wall at Burry Port Harbour, with the estuary behind
Burry Port

BURRY PORT: Harbour gate due back in early December as dredger works 54 tides

A dredger lifted over the quay wall by crane is now working the Outer Harbour, and boat owners have been…

Montage of Stephen Kinnock's official portrait beside the Poundland store front under the Port Talbot Library sign in the Aberafan Shopping Centre
Poundland

PORT TALBOT: Stephen Kinnock asks Poundland’s owners why they turned down a rescue bid

Up to 12,000 jobs hang on what happens next, and the clock on the chain’s protection from its creditors is…

Side-by-side photos of Russell Brand on stage and Bridgend councillor Owain Clatworthy in a suit
Bridgend

BRIDGEND: Council leaders disown controversial Restore councillor who told Russell Brand to ‘stay strong’

He called the comedian’s rape conviction the result of a “witch hunt”.

Tonia Antoniazzi MP
Lisa Nandy

SOCIAL MEDIA BAN: Make the apps prove it works, Gower MP and 36 Labour colleagues tell the Government

Ticking a box to say you are 16 should not be enough, say the MPs, who have five demands for…

Flames and thick black smoke rising through the roof of Rheola House with a firefighter's water jet arcing across
Arson

RHEOLA HOUSE: Teenagers who filmed themselves torching John Nash manor locked up for three years

A camera found in their car showed what happened inside the Neath Valley mansion that afternoon, a court heard.

Two armed police officers in dark uniforms beside a dark SUV stopped on the verge of the A48 Clase Road in Morriston
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MORRISTON: Third man arrested over Clase Road firearms incident

Detectives now believe the people involved in Friday's incident near Asda are likely to know one another.

Two pupils in aprons weighing flour on kitchen scales at a table set up outside a red-brick school building
Tesco

NEATH: Shoppers’ Tesco tokens help Dwr y Felin pupils turn a school quad into an outdoor classroom

A token dropped in a box in store has helped three causes in Neath and Briton Ferry, including one teaching…

A man on the beach at night holds a firework that sprays sparks sideways from his hand, with a group of people standing beside him below the promenade railings
beach

SWANSEA BEACH: “Duck down” as rockets are fired by hand on the sand while Bonfire Night crowds watch

Days after 98 per cent of our readers voted to take fireworks out of the shops, footage from Swansea's beachfront…

Two men in suits at a clear lectern on stage, one speaking into the microphone, with the St David Awards logos on a screen behind
bowel cancer

ST DAVID AWARDS: Swansea bowel cancer test firm says its win “stands out”, with four weeks left to nominate

Three years after a Swansea company took home Wales’ national award, its boss says it changed how people saw it.…

Two armed police officers in dark uniforms beside a dark SUV stopped on the verge of the A48 Clase Road in Morriston
Cllr Rob Stewart

MORRISTON: Man and boy arrested after car damaged by suspected gunfire near Asda

Roads around the A48 Clase Road were shut for hours after police declared a critical incident. They've reopened, but officers…