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Coychurch Crematorium's low stone and concrete buildings reflected in a pond fringed with reeds, surrounded by trees under a blue sky
Awen Cultural Trust

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…

The translucent polycarbonate facade of Y Storfa in Swansea city centre, with glazed ground floor, living green walls and shoppers passing
City Deal

RICS AWARDS: Y Storfa named Wales’ Project of the Year — as Llanelli’s Pentre Awel and Porthcawl’s Sker House complete a near clean sweep

The former BHS reborn as Swansea's civic hub took the top prize at the Wales property awards — with three…

Split image showing Maria Bailey holding a pink holdall bag in her living room, and a clear water bottle with time markings lying on a grey blanket
cervical cancer

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…

Kylie Minogue laughing with Quentin Tarantino at a table during filming in Porthcawl
Chris Elmore MP

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…

The clock tower of Swansea's Guildhall rising above trees, with cars parked in front of the building
Bridgend Council

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…

The deputy mayor holding scissors to a light blue ribbon outside the new Bridgend Post Office, with the postmaster and council leader either side under the red bilingual Post Office sign
Bridgend

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…

selective focus photography of a butterfly perching on human finger
Gnoll Country Park

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…

Close-up of a large blue TGJones shop fascia above a glass shopfront, photographed from below at an angle.
administration

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…

Aneurin Barnard
Aneurin Barnard

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 and Steve Speirs smiling outside a village shop, Jones holding a clapperboard reading "Better Later", on the comedy's first day of filming.
BBC

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…

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