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Rows of small wooden remembrance crosses, each with a poppy at its centre, planted in the grass of the Garden of Remembrance in Swansea
Armed Forces

SWANSEA: Every Remembrance date this year, from the poppy appeal launch to the Armistice Day silence

Poppies go on sale later this month, the Sunday parade has its route and times, and the council says it…

Architect's render of Ysgol Calon Lân seen from Mynydd Garnllwyd Road, a single-storey brick building with its name on the facade behind a fence, hedges and young trees
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MORRISTON: Cabinet to decide on land for Swansea’s new 350-place special school

Eight people answered the legal notice on the Ysgol Calon Lân land off Mynydd Garnllwyd Road, all objecting. The papers…

The red-painted wooden Japanese Bridge at Clyne Gardens with white finials on its posts, looking across the deck to stone steps and autumn trees
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CLYNE GARDENS: The red Japanese Bridge is coming back, with repairs starting within weeks

Shut after inspectors found problems with the structure, the Grade II listed bridge is getting a new deck, new steel…

Admiral Group House, a four-storey glass office building on Langdon Road in SA1, Swansea
Adam Price MS

ADMIRAL: Some of the jobs being cut are set to move to India, but the insurer won’t say how many are Swansea’s

The insurer says everyone affected has been briefed and "location was not a consideration". What it will not give Swansea…

Police officers, council officials and partners standing together in Dyfatty, Swansea, during the launch of a crime reduction project
antisocial behaviour

SWANSEA: Council housing officers could get powers to shut ‘cuckooed’ homes and bar troublemakers

Swansea Council adopted the powers in 2018 and its housing service never built them into day-to-day work. Cabinet is now…

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
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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…