Bridgend County
BRIDGEND COUNTY: A crematorium’s 17-year streak leads seven Green Flag wins — as Bryngarw joins an exclusive heritage club
Coychurch Crematorium has held its Green Flag for 17 consecutive years, and Bryngarw Country Park is now one of just…
BRIDGEND: ‘You are not alone’ — the woman making ‘Bailey’s Bags’ of chemo essentials, handed over the day treatment is confirmed
Maria Bailey packed her own bag of essentials before her first chemotherapy session at Singleton — now she wants every…
PORTHCAWL: Quentin Tarantino becomes Vice President of town’s male voice choir
The Hollywood director worked with Porthcawl Male Voice Choir members while filming in the town last month — now he's…
COUNCIL DEBT: Swansea owes £629m — second highest in Wales — but council brands record borrowing figures ‘misleading’
New figures show councils across the UK owe a record £154.6 billion — and Swansea carries more debt than any…
BRIDGEND: Town’s Post Office moves into the Rhiw — where to find it, when it’s open and what’s happened to Dunraven Place
The Dunraven Place branch has closed as demolition work begins around Wyndham Street — with a renamed Bridgend Post Office…
WALES NATURE WEEK: Bug hunts, dune safaris and a green gathering — nine days of nature on your doorstep from tomorrow
Wales Nature Week returns from 4–12 July with a packed programme across Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire — kicking…
TGJONES: Rescue plan approved — seven south-west Wales stores now wait on landlord rent deals as up to 150 closures loom
The High Court has approved the restructuring that puts up to 150 TGJones stores at risk — and the fate…
BRIDGEND: Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard tackles handbag thief in France before film festival panel
The Rogue Trooper star chased down and rugby-tackled a thief who had snatched an elderly woman's handbag in France —…
RUTH JONES: Cameras roll on new BBC comedy ‘Better Later’ — 35 years after star first met her co-writer
Filming has begun on a warm new BBC comedy co-written by and starring Porthcawl-raised Ruth Jones and her long-time friend…
TGJONES: Landlords revolt and bailiffs reclaim a Midlands store — as seven south-west Wales branches still hang in the balance
The crisis at TGJones has deepened, with bailiffs reclaiming a store, major landlords branding the rescue plan “unacceptable” and a…
PORTHCAWL: BEM for the RNLI volunteer behind 34 years on the lifeboats — and the town’s Christmas swim
Ian Stroud, who has given more than three decades to Porthcawl's lifeboat station, has been recognised in the King's Birthday…