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Celtic Freeport

PORT TALBOT: The grid firm that’s late plugging in the furnace says batteries could get the next factories connected sooner

National Grid, Net Zero Industry Wales and the Celtic Freeport will test whether batteries the network switches on and off…

South Wales Police custody photographs of Ben Garvey, Daniel Baker and Jake Blackburn side by side
cocaine

PORT TALBOT: Solicitor, 38, who defended a Sandfields cocaine boss jailed after police found he was buying from him

Ben Garvey was the criminal defence solicitor on Daniel Baker's case when Baker was arrested for running a cocaine operation…

Neath Symphony Orchestra rehearsing in a wood-panelled hall, with a timpanist in the foreground, string players at music stands and the conductor at the far end
Neath Arts Festival

NEATH: Symphony orchestra to play its first concert in 50 years, with Gladiator on the music stands

Neath Symphony Orchestra is back, and its first performance in half a century is at St David's Church on Friday…

The front of Ysgol Gymraeg Ystalyfera, a brick and dark-panelled school building behind black fencing, with the school's welcome sign in front and the valley hillside behind
Cllr Nia Jenkins

YSTALYFERA BRO DUR: 1,600-pupil Welsh-medium school to be split in two, with a head for each campus

Neath Port Talbot Council wants separate schools in Ystalyfera and Sandfields from September 2028. Pupils would stay where they are,…

Ospreys head coach Mark Jones
Mark Jones

OSPREYS: ‘We know we’re capable’: Jones on what the Ospreys must improve in South Africa

The head coach said basic errors gifted the Sharks their first-half scores, but took heart from a second-half fightback that…

Ospreys in action against the Sharks in Durban
Lalakai Foketi

OSPREYS: Bonus point the only consolation as Sharks overpower Ospreys in Durban

A 41-24 defeat in South Africa made it two opening-weekend losses in a row for the Ospreys, though four tries,…

back view of the students sitting inside the classroom
Fixed Penalty Notice

NEATH PORT TALBOT: Council fines 159 parents and takes 48 to court after kids skip school

The fines and prosecutions came in the 2025/26 school year, as attendance slipped and 638 pupils were excluded. One year…

Shafts of sunlight over the Afan Valley, with a winding road, a small village and wind turbines on the ridge
Afan Valley

AFAN VALLEY: A £20m question is heading for every doormat in the valley

Every household in the Upper Afan Valley is getting a Pride in Place survey on how up to £20m should…

Split image: Gemma Charnock smiling in a blue dress against a brick wall, and Port Talbot at dusk from the hillside with the steelworks lit along the coast
Cllr Cen Phillips

PORT TALBOT: Town of Culture bid gets a new chair, with £3m at stake and until 30 November to make the case

Gemma Charnock, a vice principal at NPTC Group of Colleges, will chair the partnership behind Port Talbot's UK Town of…

A smiling three-year-old boy with a feeding tube holds his hand up high, supported by a laughing physiotherapist behind him
Briton Ferry

NEATH: ‘Time really is against us’: Luca, three, and the £54,000 robotic walker his family are racing to buy

Luca Arnold has a gene change his parents were told makes him the only known case in Wales, and doctors…