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Five people in hi-vis vests and hard hats stand outside a new red brick and dark-clad house at the Garden Village development
affordable homes

GARDEN VILLAGE: Council buys 141 homes at new estate, 70 for the housing waiting list

Swansea Council has bought the affordable homes at Persimmon's Garden Village development outright, the first time it has done so,…

Steel beams and timber joists span the interior of the roofless stone Laboratory Building, with scaffolding and blue sky above
Bascule Bridge

LANDORE: New floors go into the copperworks ruin that could become a 100-seat restaurant

The Laboratory Building is getting floors for the first time in decades. It is one of six schemes now under…

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5G

SWANSEA: City’s university and hospitals get major mobile boost as part of £11bn upgrade scheme

New equipment has been switched on at Swansea University's two campuses and at Morriston and Singleton hospitals, promising faster internet…

A boy sitting with a controller playing Minecraft on a large screen, with a laptop video call beside him
ALN

SWANSEA: The summer wellbeing sessions being run inside Minecraft

More than 30 children with additional learning needs are expected to take part, after Swansea Council put money behind a…

Two children on scooters beside a sculpture mounted on a stone column at Swansea Marina
Dawson's

SWANSEA: The free marina trail that ends with a sweet, and a prize draw

Pick up a sheet at Morgans Hotel, walk the marina, hand it in at Dawsons next to the Tower. It…

A hand holding a copy of the psychological horror collection This Isn't Unusual by A. Sjoberg against dark undergrowth
A. Sjoberg

SWANSEA: The horror collection written after work, in bed, with a cup of tea

A. Sjoberg has published her debut collection in paperback, hardback, Kindle and audiobook inside four months, all of it around…

The blackened fire-damaged interior of Verdi's in Mumbles
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MUMBLES: “Verdi’s will be back” as owner says fire damage worse than first feared

Ryan Hole says the seafront café came off worse than the family had hoped, with a fuller assessment expected next…

Cllr Rob Stewart and Lord Mayor Cllr Penny Matthews sitting at a table signing the Bonnie Tyler book of condolence inside Y Storfa library
Bonnie Tyler

BONNIE TYLER: Book of condolence opens in Swansea city centre on Monday

Swansea Council is opening a book of condolence for Bonnie Tyler at Y Storfa on Oxford Street from Monday, running…

The Fairwood Terrace street sign at its junction with Victoria Road, Gowerton, with a low stone railway bridge crossing the road ahead and traffic passing through — the site of a proposed traffic signal-controlled junction.
Burry Inlet

GOWERTON: Decision on 216 homes slips further away as Persimmon stays silent over crucial environmental study

The homes planned at Fairwood Terrace beside Gowerton station cannot be approved or rejected until Persimmon produces a major environmental…

Exterior of the abandoned former Manselton School in Swansea, a three-storey Victorian stone building with turrets, boarded ground-floor windows and weeds growing through the yard
B&R Urban Explorers UK

MANSELTON: Star of the Week stars still hang inside the Victorian school left empty for a decade

Urban explorers' photographs show classrooms left as they were when the last pupils moved out in 2015 inside the Grade…

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