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Nine bright blue indoor padel courts under a steel roof with the Jaxx sign on the far wall and players mid-game
Cllr Andrew Stevens

SWANSEA: How padel went from two courts to a national series in three years

Players from Open to Over 60 compete at Jaxx in Llansamlet this weekend as the UK Padel Masters Series opens.…

Gowerton School
Cllr Robert Smith

GOWERTON: Old grammar school building to come down in £47m school rebuild

The council's announcement talks of keeping historic elements where possible. The papers going to cabinet next week name the block…

Two men shaking hands outside the new Gorseinon banking hub, with the Banking Hub and Post Office sign above the shopfront and a Banking Hub flag beside the door
bank closure

GORSEINON: Banking hub opens on High Street as Lloyds pushes last bank’s closure back to 2 November

The temporary hub at 20 High Street opened on Thursday, a month later than first announced. Lloyds, due to shut…

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…

Heledd Fychan, in a black and white patterned dress, speaking at a lectern in the Senedd chamber with members seated behind her
Carmarthenshire Council

OSPREYS AND SCARLETS: Minister says she can’t save a region as Senedd fails to agree a single word on Welsh rugby’s future

Swansea's £5.1m for St Helen's, Carmarthenshire's £2.4m Scarlets loan and £13.5m of Welsh Government money were all put on the…

The bilingual Parc Singleton / Singleton Park sign with a City and County of Swansea crest and park map, with trees and lawns behind
Halloween

SINGLETON PARK: The £34 Halloween ‘scarefest’ Swansea Council says doesn’t exist

A website is selling tickets for a 13-day Halloween scare park in Singleton Park. The council says it is a…

Five people holding a large Swansea Bay Health Charity cheque for £500 in front of a dartboard at Pontarddulais Conservative Club
bowel cancer

PONTARDDULAIS: The £2 Sunday quiz that has put £16,250 into Swansea’s hospitals

When Eirwyn and Hilary Evans's team won the right to choose where the latest £500 went, they split it between…

South Wales Police custody photograph of Caeran Evans, 27, from Penlan, Swansea
Penlan

PENLAN: Man filmed taking drugs off sleeping woman’s body jailed for seven years for raping her

Caeran Evans, 27, admitted sexual assault but denied rape; a jury convicted him last month. Police say he was filmed…

Gethin Jones with his arm around Zac Thomas, who wears a red Wales top with ZAC on the chest, in Swansea city centre
Autism

SWANSEA: British judo champion Zac, 14, wanted to quit when his mum was diagnosed with cancer

He was the only Welsh child picked to go to Japan with the British judo squad, and he spends Christmas…

Alix Charles and James Smale-Davies standing in an empty brick-walled office unit at the J-Shed, with the dock visible through arched windows
AD Marketing

SA1: Marketing agency that started as a one-woman business moves into the J-Shed after Workplace of the Year win

AD Marketing signed for Unit 6 in the Grade II listed grain warehouse days after collecting its award at the…