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Aerial view of the part-demolished former Godre'rgraig Primary School, with an excavator working on cleared ground and rubble beside the remaining arched stone wall along Graig Road.
coal tip

GODRE’RGRAIG: Council responds as campaigners question how tip above demolished school was recorded

Neath Port Talbot Council has answered a campaign group's questions about how the tip above the former Godre'rgraig school was…

Aerial view of the Port Talbot steelworks, with a large water reservoir in the foreground, blast furnaces and chimneys beyond, and Swansea Bay in the distance.
Afan Ogwr Rhondda

GREEN STEEL DELAY: Cross-party calls for answers over Port Talbot furnace setback as politicians press Tata and National Grid

A cross-party call for clarity is mounting at the Senedd over the delay to Port Talbot's new electric arc furnace,…

David Rees in a grey suit standing in front of the Port Talbot steelworks, with blast furnaces and a steam plume behind him.
David Rees MS

GREEN STEEL DELAY: Former Aberavon MS says National Grid should face penalties over delayed electric furnace connection

David Rees, the former Aberavon MS who chaired the Senedd's cross-party group on steel, says the new electric arc furnace…

Dentist wearing gloves and mask looking into a patient’s open mouth with dental tools during examination.
British Dental Association Cymru

NHS DENTIST: New practice to open in Neath as contract reforms reshape access across Swansea Bay

A new NHS dental practice is set to open in Neath town centre early next year, as a health board…

An aerial CGI visualisation of Tata Steel's Port Talbot plant, showing the planned new Electric Arc Furnace facility integrated with the existing steelworks, with the site's industrial buildings, cooling towers and surrounding hills of the Afan Valley in the background
electric arc furnace

GREEN STEEL: Port Talbot’s £1.25bn furnace could be delayed by up to eight months over power hold-up

Tata Steel has warned that its switch to greener electric steelmaking at Port Talbot may be held up, after the…

Nicholas Fearn sitting in a leopard-print robe and slippers in a room decorated with leopard-print furnishings.
Autism

NEATH: The TikTok ‘Diva Supreme’ nearing 150,000 followers — and using his fame to change minds about autism

A year after starting his account, Neath journalist Nicholas Fearn is on the brink of 150,000 TikTok followers — and…

Neath Port Talbot Council Chief Executive, Karen Jones
Afan Valley

PRIDE IN PLACE: Former council chief to lead Afan Valley’s £20m regeneration drive

Karen Jones, who retired as Neath Port Talbot Council's chief executive in late 2024, has been named independent chair of…

NatWest Bank in Llanelli
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NATWEST: Llanelli and Port Talbot branches to close in September

Two of the bank's three remaining branches in the Swansea Bay area will shut within a day of each other…

A firefighter directs a jet of water high into the steel roof structure of the Tata steelworks mill, with sunlight streaming through gaps in the damaged roof above stacked steel rolls.
Craig Flannery

STEELWORKS FIRE: Tata aims to restart Hot Strip Mill mid-next week as fire crews finally leave Port Talbot after two days

The last fire crews left the Tata steelworks on Friday morning, more than two days after the blaze broke out…

Nerys Lloyd and Haverfordwest Weir
Dyfed Powys Police

Paddleboard firm owner who caused four deaths on River Cleddau loses appeal bid to cut sentence

Former police officer Nerys Lloyd, who admitted the gross negligence manslaughter of four paddleboarders in "extremely hazardous" flood conditions on…