Sketty

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 roadside digital sign on New Cut Road, Swansea, reading "poor air quality predicted in Hafod" beside a no-vehicles symbol, with houses and a passing car behind
air pollution

CLEAN AIR: Swansea’s official pollution zone set to be scrapped after 25 years

Homes along the main roads through Hafod, Sketty and Fforestfach have sat inside a legal "bad air" zone since 2001.…

Composite image of Swansea Crown Court with an inset South Wales Police custody photograph of Christopher Barnett
robbery

SKETTY: Claw hammer robber told terrified Co-op worker he had ‘respect’ for shopworkers

Christopher Barnett threatened to smash the man's head in before taking £276 and bottles of gin from the Gower Road…

The vacant white two-storey building at 120 Gower Road in Sketty beside the red-brick Tawe Veterinary Group practice
Dentist

SKETTY: Empty office block to become dental practice as planners say yes

A vacant two-storey building next to the vets on Gower Road has permission to become a dental surgery, with the…

Three children playing with watering cans in a swimming pool
Swansea Council

SWANSEA: Kids can swim free at Wales National Pool almost every day this summer

Under-16s can swim free almost every day of the school holidays at Wales National Pool Swansea, with accompanying adults paying…

Liam Harmer, who sold the Big Issue in Sketty, Swansea, for more than 15 years
Big Issue

TOWNHILL: ‘One of the kindest’ — Big Issue seller Liam Harmer named as man who died in Elphin Gardens flat fire

The man who died in a flat fire in Townhill on Tuesday has been named as Liam Harmer, a Big…

Three Parkland Primary pupils holding a giant first prize cheque, flanked by host Sian Lloyd and DVLA Chief Executive Tim Moss
Blaenbaglan Primary School

CODE CHALLENGE: Swansea and Neath Port Talbot schools sweep top prizes at DVLA’s annual coding contest

Parkland Primary and Ysgol Gymraeg Ystalyfera Bro Dur were crowned winners at the Swansea awards ceremony — with Blaenbaglan Primary…

A composite of two photos showing a school nursery's outdoor area — a wooden Little Garden archway with planters, and a courtyard with a blue water table and tubs of colourful toys.
Curriculum for Wales

SWANSEA: Nursery children get new garden and water play area — as school beats thousands to national funding

Parkland Primary and Nursery School has transformed its nursery outdoor space into a garden and water play learning area —…

Adam Bannister and Chris Harris from Sketty restaurant Slice (Image: Slice)
food & drink

SKETTY: Michelin Guide restaurant Slice to close after 13 years as owners plan new concept

The tiny Eversley Road restaurant — whose chef Adam Bannister twice represented Wales on BBC's Great British Menu — will…

rape

SKETTY: Man jailed for 18 years after posing as Uber driver to rape woman in Swansea city centre

Abdul Shahid, 41, from Sketty, has been jailed for 18 years after posing as an Uber driver to rape a…

An elevated, wide-angle aerial shot of a large, modern housing estate with numerous red-brick and white-rendered houses, surrounded by lush green woodland under a clear sky.
Hendrefoilan Park

STUDENT VILLAGE TRANSFORMATION: Final phase of major Swansea housing project given the green light

The transformation of a site that once housed thousands of students into a modern family community is set to be…