Llansamlet

Two armed police officers in dark uniforms beside a dark SUV stopped on the verge of the A48 Clase Road in Morriston
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MORRISTON: Third man arrested over Clase Road firearms incident

Detectives now believe the people involved in Friday's incident near Asda are likely to know one another.

A long plume of white smoke, lit orange at its base, stretching across the night sky above the lights of Llansamlet
air pollution

LLANSAMLET: Council vows to ‘leave no lawful avenue unexplored’ on the waste fires, eviction included

'Literally poisoning us all': residents have been reporting the fires since spring last year and are now being urged to…

A roadside digital sign on New Cut Road, Swansea, reading "poor air quality predicted in Hafod" beside a no-vehicles symbol, with houses and a passing car behind
air pollution

CLEAN AIR: Swansea’s official pollution zone set to be scrapped after 25 years

Homes along the main roads through Hafod, Sketty and Fforestfach have sat inside a legal "bad air" zone since 2001.…

Two men in hi-vis vests and hard hats kneeling on a factory roof covered in black solar panels, with trees and hills behind
Afon Engineering

LLANSAMLET: Steel firm puts 699 solar panels on its roof and says the bills will repay it in four years

Afon Engineering on Swansea Vale Business Park is spending £250,000 on a rooftop array it says will cut its power…

The Sandpiper Brewers Fayre at Sandy Water Park in Llanelli with its entrance doors closed and the menu display case beside them empty
Brewers Fayre

BREWERS FAYRE: Last orders after 45 years, with the Sandpiper’s doors already locked

All 89 remaining Brewers Fayres served their final meals on Monday night, ending a 45-year brand. In Llansamlet, Swansea Vale…

Composite image of Swansea Crown Court with an inset South Wales Police custody photograph of Terrence O'Connor
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SWANSEA: ‘Unforgivable’ fraudster stole £200,000 from his own family then fled to Turkey

Terrence O'Connor drained his widowed grandfather's life savings among more than £200,000 taken from his parents, brother and sister, then…

A group of Coed Brân service users and staff, including wheelchair users, beneath the Coed Brân sign at the Llansamlet centre
Cllr Hayley Gwilliam

LLANSAMLET: Riverside boardwalk and sensory garden open at Coed Brân day service

Service users helped build both, and cut the ribbon themselves at an open day showing off the transformed outdoor spaces…

A two-storey brick office building at Sandringham Park, Swansea Vale, with cars parked outside and a "3 Sandringham Park" sign on the front.
Asbri Planning

SWANSEA VALE: Former DVLA call centre could become NHS factory making cancer medicines for the region

NHS Wales wants to turn a vacant office at Sandringham Park — a former DVLA call centre — into a…

Police custody photographs of three men: Matthew Holloway, Ashley Harris and Joshua Sawyer.
Birchgrove

DVLA FRAUD: Swansea insider jailed after doctoring car records in £1.3m scam

Matthew Holloway used his job at the DVLA to falsify vehicle records for Swansea car dealers, in a scheme that…

David Lake (Image: South Wales Police)
Child abuse

SWANSEA: Llansamlet man jailed for 25 years after being found guilty of historic rape of two girls

David Lake, 57, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of the repeated…

A selfie of two young girls smiling at the camera — Lexi May Hopkin on the left with blonde hair and blue eyes, and a younger Tallulah Chalstrey on the right with longer brown hair.
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SWANSEA: ‘10km for every year we’ve been without her’ — Llansamlet woman to run 100km from London to Brighton in memory of eight-year-old friend Lexi

Tallulah Chalstrey was 14 when she lost her childhood friend Lexi May Hopkin to a brain tumour. This Saturday, she…