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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.
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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
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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
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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…

Five former Strictly Come Dancing professionals in black suits posing at a cocktail bar, one holding a martini glass
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SWANSEA: Five Strictly legends are bringing Las Vegas to the arena this Friday

Fans keep telling them they wish they were still on Strictly, James Jordan says. On Friday, Swansea gets all five…

Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in a scene from Love Actually
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SWANSEA: Love Actually is coming to the arena with a full live orchestra this Christmas

Swansea has the only Welsh date on the 14-stop UK tour. Miss it, and the nearest alternative is Bath.

Aerial view of the Swansea.com Stadium in Landore, Swansea, with its white steel roof frame, the pitch visible below, and the River Tawe and retail park beyond
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SWANSEA.COM STADIUM: Swans close in on owning their ground, and want the training ground too

The stadium deal is now with the lawyers. The club also wants to own its Fairwood training ground, but there's…

Maryann Enereba, in a white jacket, sings into a microphone while a line of delegates behind her hold hands raised in the air in a wood-panelled hall
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UPLANDS: Told at nine she couldn’t sing, Maryann wrote her own anthem and sang it at the Royal Welsh College

Maryann Enereba was sent out of a school music practice in Nigeria for not being able to sing. Now the…