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manufacturing

SA1: Swansea firms will be able to try out robots before they buy, at a new university hub

Boston Dynamics and ABB are among the names backing it. The point isn’t to build robots, it’s to help businesses…

South Wales Police custody photos of Andrew Flipping, left, with a shaved head, beard and neck tattoos, and Paul Martin, right, with short greying hair
Ammanford

HAFOD: Two men jailed for more than 12 years between them after a heroin and crack deal in a parked car

He got out of the car with two ounces of heroin and two of crack cocaine. He didn’t get far.

A woman in a sequinned pink and lilac minidress and a man in a white 1970s suit, wig and false moustache dance side by side on a purple Strictly set
Gavin & Stacey

STRICTLY: Swansea’s Melanie Walters is out, a week later than she thought she would be

Three of the four judges saved Shaun Wright-Phillips in Sunday’s dance-off. Gwen signed off in Welsh, and Stacey had something…

Four people standing behind a large iced cake reading Cross Engineering, Celebrating 60 Years in Business, outside the firm’s entrance decorated with red, black and white balloons
3M

PENLLERGAER: Engineering firm that started in a Llanmorlais garage turns 60, with the third generation in charge

The family firm moved to Penllergaer in 1970 to be near its key customer at the time, 3M. The 3M…

South Wales Police custody photo of Matthew Bailey
Bonymaen

BONYMAEN: Man jailed for sexually abusing two girls who were under 10

One of them went to police around 20 years after the abuse began.

IWG's Mark Potton and council leader Rob Stewart in suits outside the glass and concrete 71/72 Kingsway office building, with the 71/72 sign on its roof
71/72 Kingsway

KINGSWAY: Office block on old Oceana nightclub site named best in the UK

The former nightclub site won the British Council for Offices' Best of the Best award in London on Tuesday, five…

South Wales Police custody photograph of Daniel Green, a man with a shaved head and a neck tattoo
domestic abuse

MORRISTON: Man jailed after locking his ex inside her own home and smashing her phone

He took her phone and her keys, and she was trapped inside for hours. She got out only because a…

Cllr Rob Stewart
Abi Tierney

WRU: Swansea council leader likens licence report to counting fans’ Ninja airfryers

The union has published the evidence behind its licence decisions. Swansea's council leader says it doesn't stand up, and the…

A child in a white skull mask and red jacket stands between two girls in hooded coats at a rainy Halloween event, with families behind
Cllr Andrew Williams

SWANSEA: Mariachi bands and fire performers as free Spooks in the City goes Day of the Dead

Swansea's free Halloween party falls on Halloween itself this year, with a Mexican twist. Unlike the £34 "scarefest" that has…

Two police officers in hi-vis jackets marked Heddlu Police walk down the middle of Wind Street in Swansea, towards The Perch and the street's bars and restaurants
Ask for Angela

SPIKING: Five years after the Wind Street needle reports, Swansea’s bar staff, doormen and taxi drivers are invited to Wales’ first night-time safety summit

The woman who invented Ask for Angela and the mother who won Martyn's Law will be in Builth Wells on…