Neath Port Talbot

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Halifax Bank on Union Street in Swansea
Business

HALIFAX: After 173 years, one of Britain’s most famous bank names is being killed off — and its branches in Swansea and Neath are already on borrowed time

By
Kit Peters
7 Min Read
Phil Rowe, from Ystalyfera, wins Best Male Performance in Audio Drama at the One Voice Awards — going one better than last year's triple nomination.
Arts and Entertainment

YSTALYFERA: Voice heard in 150 million homes worldwide — Swansea Valley actor wins Best Male Performance at major UK voice acting awards

Phil Rowe, from Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley, has won the Best…

By
Kit Peters
4 Min Read
Maximin Carter (Image: South Wales Police)
Abergwynfi

Man who kept ninja sword, air rifle and knuckle duster in ex-partner’s Abergwynfi home — and sparked Valentine’s Day major incident — jailed for five and a half years

By
Kit Peters
6 Min Read
Police custody photograph of Chad White, a white man in his thirties with short dark hair and a beard, wearing a dark green top, against a grey background with a South Wales Police watermark.
Neath

NEATH: Drug dealer jailed for three years after cocaine, cash and weighing scales found at his home

A 34-year-old Neath man has been sentenced to three years in prison…

By
Kit Peters
2 Min Read
Six men stand on Aberavon Beach holding a large blue and yellow 2026 Seaside Award flag, with the beach promenade, Beach Rescue station and blue sky visible behind them.
Keep Wales Tidy

PORT TALBOT: Council celebrates as Aberavon Beach Seaside Award confirmed — with a message to visitors to enjoy it responsibly

Neath Port Talbot Council has formally celebrated Aberavon Beach’s retention of its…

By
Kit Peters
6 Min Read
Aberavon Beach
Keep Wales Tidy

PORT TALBOT: Aberavon beach wins prestigious Seaside Award — and it’s the only beach in Neath Port Talbot to make the cut

By
Kit Peters
5 Min Read
Eleven members of the Western Steel women's cricket team posing for a group photograph on a cricket ground, wearing their new red, black and gold Maiden kit with a hillside and trees visible in the background. Seven players stand in the back row and four kneel in the front row.
Briton Ferry

WOMEN’S CRICKET: ‘The younger girls would race to get the smallest shirt’ — how south Wales women finally got a kit that fits

By
Kit Peters
6 Min Read
Wales & West Utilities is shortly starting work to upgrade gas pipes
Motoring and Transport

NEATH: Three months of roadworks to hit Aberdulais from Sunday as gas company digs up village street

Residents and drivers in Aberdulais face nearly three months of disruption from…

By
Kit Peters
3 Min Read
Cymmer Bridge, a stone arch bridge with concrete balustrade railings and ivy growing on the central pier, spanning a wooded valley with the village of Cymmer behind it, including the fire station with its red doors visible alongside parked ambulances.
Cymmer

PORT TALBOT: A historic bridge closed, a failing bridge demolished and a health centre potentially bulldozed — the radical plan to reshape Cymmer

By
Kit Peters
6 Min Read
The Post Office in Neath within the TGJones store - shown with previous WHSmith branding
Neath

TGJONES: New Deputy First Minister raises alarm over Neath Post Office threat as she writes to chain over closure risk

Sioned Williams MS, who this week became Wales's Deputy First Minister, has…

By
Kit Peters
6 Min Read