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Gower College Swansea

ST HELEN’S: Reopening slips three days as college games are moved out and Saturday’s crowd goes in one stand

Wednesday’s college and university matches and Friday’s Dewar Shield game have been moved to other grounds for “final operational sign-offs”.…

Michael Douglas, white-haired in a navy zip-neck jumper, leaning forward in an armchair in front of a cabinet of awards
Carys Zeta Douglas

MICHAEL DOUGLAS: ‘I won her back? It was a mutual’: Hollywood star on his 2013 split from Swansea’s Catherine Zeta-Jones

The 82-year-old, promoting his memoir One Helluva Ride, bristled when The Sunday Times asked how he won back his Swansea-born…

Gloria, a woman with white hair and glasses in a blue polo shirt and black cropped trousers, reaching to hit a yellow pickleball with a black and blue paddle, cut out against a coral background
Caredig

SKETTY: Gloria turns 90 this month, and she’ll still be playing pickleball on Thursday

Her trademark is a cheerful “oooops” when the ball goes astray. The man who runs the session says she makes…

A smiling woman in glasses with three children in a crowd at night, one girl pointing up at the sky
Bonfire Night

FIREWORKS: Swansea’s Bonfire Night display is leaving St Helen’s for Singleton Park

Lasers for the first time, a myths-and-magic theme, and tickets on sale now. What it costs, when the gates open…

Dozens of runners in green-and-white bobble hats and race numbers posing under an inflatable green START arch
Paul Popham Fund

SWANSEA: Wear Wally brings back its 10-mile race for the running club’s 10th birthday

Forget the red and white stripes. In Swansea, Wally wears green and white.

Recycling worker tipping a pink recycling bag into the back of a kerbside recycling truck in Swansea.
air pollution

SWANSEA: No UK city recycles more, new green league table shows

The city came sixth of 94 for green living, ahead of Cardiff and Bristol. Its air scored well too, a…

Two people walking along Cupid Way past the glazed shopfronts beneath the copper-coloured canopy of Copr Bay North car park on a sunny day
Copr Bay

COPR BAY: Shops, cafés and restaurants wanted for the units beneath Swansea’s newest car park

The council says it is in positive talks with a number of businesses, and local traders can find out more…

Aerial view of the red-brick Bay Campus buildings between the beach at Crymlyn Burrows and Fabian Way, with Kilvey Hill beyond
Amazon

FABIAN WAY: The £33m bridge Swansea designed ten years ago still has no money to build it

It would bring a new road into SA1, bypassing some of the busiest parts of Fabian Way. The council had…

The orange Mumbles RNLI all-weather lifeboat Roy Barker IV moored at Mumbles Pier on a sunny day, with the smaller orange inshore lifeboat alongside and crew members on deck, Swansea Bay visible in the background.
Cllr Chris Holley

MUMBLES: Councillor’s husband saved 92 lives on the lifeboat. She calls the abuse of RNLI crews ‘truly appalling’

Swansea councillors from all sides of the chamber lined up behind the lifeboat volunteers on Thursday night. One of them…

Aerial artist's impression of three blue padel courts and a landscaped car park on the former tennis courts beside the Oyster House, with Mumbles beach and the bay beyond
Cllr Andrew Stevens

MUMBLES: Businessman’s alternative padel plan would use £400,000 of his own money, so the council doesn’t have to

He wants a long lease on the old seafront tennis courts in return, and says he would run them either…