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Side by side: Charlie, a brindle Staffordshire bull terrier type dog, emaciated with ribs showing at a vet's, and later healthy and smiling after his recovery
animal cruelty

LLANDYSUL: Lifetime animal ban after man’s dog starved to death, and another tore the letterbox off to reach food

Charlie survived weeks shut inside a house with no one caring for him. Twelve-year-old Suki did not, and their owner…

Black and white studio portrait of actress Rachel Roberts smiling, with swept-back fair hair, hoop earrings and a white collar over a dark cardigan
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RACHEL ROBERTS: Llanelli’s three-time BAFTA winner would be 100 next year, and the town is being asked how to remember her

She was born in a Baptist manse in Llanelli 99 years ago today, won British film's top acting prize twice…

Five people standing in front of an Urdd banner holding a large Persimmon cheque made out to Urdd Gobaith Cymru for £2,500
Cllr Emlyn Schiavone

URDD: Regional eisteddfods in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire get £2,500 boost

The money from housebuilder Persimmon will go towards next year's regional rounds of the Urdd Eisteddfod across west Wales. The…

Dyfed-Powys Police custody photograph of Cameron Davies, a man with short cropped hair, a moustache and a tattoo on his forehead
Cameron Davies

LLANGUNNOR: Stabbing threat report led police to £118,000 of drugs, a zombie knife and an axe

Cameron Davies, 23, has been jailed for two years and ten months. Police say they traced two vehicles to an…

Carway School
Carmarthenshire

CARWAY: Council weighing village school’s long-term future as £1.8m classrooms stay on hold

Carway's children started a second school year being bussed to Pontyates this month, 13 months after their own school was…

Councillor Edward Thomas in a hi-vis jacket holding a black recycling box filled with glass bottles and jars
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STICKER SHOCK: Wrong bag, wrong day, and the new Carmarthenshire bin rules that can end in court

Bin crews won't empty your own wheelie bin, holiday lets lose their collection even if they pay premium council tax,…

A single-storey red-brick hospice building with a tiled roof, with a large bronze sculpture on a circular brick plinth and a wooden bench in the garden in front
David Craddock

LLANELLI: Hospice trust wants 14 beds at Tŷ Bryngwyn. The health board says it can only safely run four

The town's hospice has been limited to four beds since a 2023 fire safety review, Hywel Dda has confirmed, days…

A smiling man with short grey hair in a pink short-sleeved shirt, seated at a table on a beach at dusk with fairy lights in the trees behind him
Amcanu

BURRY PORT: Tributes to Amcanu boss Owain Davies, 55, killed in Swiss Alps plane crash

The managing director of the Burry Port engineering firm was a passenger in a light aircraft that came down near…

Computer-generated image of a slim grey steel pole with a Y-shaped top carrying power lines across green farmland, with trees and hills behind
Adam Price MS

POLES APART: Towy Valley pylon firm swaps steel towers for 22-metre poles, just five metres shorter

Green GEN Cymru says a slimmer single-pole design could carry both its planned power lines to Llandyfaelog, with a prototype…

A gold BAFTA Cymru mask trophy on a black plinth against a dark stage with blue and orange lights out of focus behind it
BAFTA

HENDY: Sex Education casting director Lauren Evans to get BAFTA Cymru honour

Seven months after her no-speech BAFTA win went viral, the Hendy casting director behind I Swear, Sex Education and Lost…