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New rain gardens are being installed at Phillips Parade and Rodney Street in Swansea's Sandfields area — the latest phase of a scheme that has already transformed streets around St Helen's Primary School and is part of a wider Active Travel programme across the city.
Active Travel

SWANSEA: Rain gardens spreading through Sandfields streets as second phase of flood-busting scheme takes root

New rain gardens are being installed at Phillips Parade and Rodney Street in Swansea's Sandfields area — the latest phase…

Halifax Bank on Union Street in Swansea
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HALIFAX: After 173 years, one of Britain’s most famous bank names is being killed off — and its branches in Swansea and Neath are already on borrowed time

Lloyds Banking Group is set to axe the Halifax brand this summer, migrating millions of customers to Lloyds. It comes…

Kaz and Angharad from The Great Pottery Throw Down 2026 will officially open the Swansea Pottery Collective on Saturday 23 May, noon to 3pm.
Angharad

SWANSEA: TV pottery stars Kaz and Angharad to cut the ribbon at new volunteer-run studio opening this Saturday

Two contestants from this year's Great Pottery Throw Down will officially open Swansea's brand new community pottery studio this Saturday…

Swansea Crown Court
Courts and Tribunals Bill

SWANSEA: Protesters to gather outside Crown Court this morning in defence of the 800-year-old right to trial by jury

Swansea residents will join demonstrators outside crown courts across England and Wales today as part of a national day of…

A large group of competitors in wetsuits and race vests run across a wide sandy beach during the Gritty Rascals Swimrun Gower event, with trees and parked vehicles visible in the background.
Brandy Cove

GOWER: Only four locals took part last year — can Swansea’s own backyard event tempt more to take the plunge this June?

The Gritty Rascals Swimrun Gower returns on 20 June — a one-day challenge that takes athletes from Rhossili Bay all…

Comedian Ian Stone, a smiling man with short grey hair and dark-rimmed glasses, photographed against a blue background.
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SWANSEA: Spirit of the Fringe award winner Ian Stone comes to Swansea Grand Theatre this Thursday with his search for life’s missing wow

Ian Stone — Edinburgh Festival favourite, Arsenal obsessive and winner of the Spirit of the Fringe award — brings his…

A selfie of two young girls smiling at the camera — Lexi May Hopkin on the left with blonde hair and blue eyes, and a younger Tallulah Chalstrey on the right with longer brown hair.
brain tumour

SWANSEA: ‘10km for every year we’ve been without her’ — Llansamlet woman to run 100km from London to Brighton in memory of eight-year-old friend Lexi

Tallulah Chalstrey was 14 when she lost her childhood friend Lexi May Hopkin to a brain tumour. This Saturday, she…

Two performers on a stage — one in a full pink feathered showgirl costume with a tall headdress, the other in a blue sequinned jacket — holding hands with arms outstretched under colourful stage lighting.
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She ran away with the circus, swam with sharks and became the ‘Mother of Welsh Burlesque’ — and now her life story is coming to Swansea Grand Theatre

Stephanie Gawne has spent decades as a glamorous assistant, showgirl and burlesque pioneer. Now she’s putting it all on stage…

A wide shot of a public meeting in an ornate hall, with an expert panel of five people seated at a table on a raised stage under a large screen reading "Growing Up Safely in the Online World", with rows of audience members in red chairs facing them.
Online Safety Act

SWANSEA: ‘Technology has transformed childhood in ways we’re only beginning to understand’ — packed public meeting hears parents’ fears about social media and their kids

Parents, teachers and residents filled a Swansea meeting room this week to share their fears about social media and children…

Drag queen Chae with a C, wearing a black sequinned gown and elaborate feathered headdress, stands on the upper deck of the Swansea Pride open-top bus looking back over the parade, with hundreds of marchers carrying flags and banners visible in the street behind her.
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Brangwyn Hall

SWANSEA: Hundreds fill the streets as Pride 2026 parade returns to the city centre

The annual celebration drew crowds from across south-west Wales on Saturday, with a procession winding through the city centre to…