Port Talbot

Six men stand on Aberavon Beach holding a large blue and yellow 2026 Seaside Award flag, with the beach promenade, Beach Rescue station and blue sky visible behind them.

Keep Wales Tidy

PORT TALBOT: Council celebrates as Aberavon Beach Seaside Award confirmed — with a message to visitors to enjoy it responsibly

Neath Port Talbot Council has formally celebrated Aberavon Beach’s retention of its…

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Kit Peters

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Aberavon Beach

Keep Wales Tidy

PORT TALBOT: Aberavon beach wins prestigious Seaside Award — and it’s the only beach in Neath Port Talbot to make the cut

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Kit Peters

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Cymmer Bridge, a stone arch bridge with concrete balustrade railings and ivy growing on the central pier, spanning a wooded valley with the village of Cymmer behind it, including the fire station with its red doors visible alongside parked ambulances.

PORT TALBOT: A historic bridge closed, a failing bridge demolished and a health centre potentially bulldozed — the radical plan to reshape Cymmer

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Kit Peters

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Shoe Zone store on Stepney Street in Llanelli (Image: Shoe Zone)

RETAIL: Shoe Zone is closing stores across the UK — here’s what it means for shops in Llanelli, Neath, Swansea, Carmarthen and Port Talbot

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Kit Peters

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Plans have been submitted to convert the empty former Barclays Bank on Port Talbot's Station Road into 13 affordable homes. (Image: Google Maps)

PORT TALBOT: The Victorian bank that’s stood empty since Barclays left — now someone wants to turn it into 13 homes

One of the most striking buildings on Port Talbot's high street has…

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Kit Peters

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Margam Road between Groswen Park and the junction with Rhanallt Street in Port Talbot (Image: Google Maps)

PORT TALBOT: Driver critically injured after four-vehicle collision on Margam Road

A driver has been left in a critical but stable condition in…

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Kit Peters

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Ryan Tucker (Image: South Wales Police)

PORT TALBOT: Cocaine dealer joins brother in prison after Boxing Day crash left him ‘covered in cocaine’ at the wheel of his car

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Kit Peters

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An aerial CGI visualisation of Tata Steel's Port Talbot plant, showing the planned new Electric Arc Furnace facility integrated with the existing steelworks, with the site's industrial buildings, cooling towers and surrounding hills of the Afan Valley in the background

PORT TALBOT: Tata Steel sets out demands for next Welsh Government — as thousands of steelworkers live with the consequences of its £1.25bn transformation

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Kit Peters

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Night shot, two firefighters with hose. Caption: Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service crews work through the night at the Water Street industrial fire in Port Talbot. Image: MWWFRS

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Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

PORT TALBOT: In pictures — the aftermath of the Water Street fire as crews continue to damp down

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service has released new images…

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Kit Peters

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Two firefighters in yellow protective gear and breathing apparatus directing a hose into smouldering debris at the Port Talbot Dock Road fire site

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

PORT TALBOT: Fire enters controlled phase as road closures lifted and air quality monitoring deployed

The major fire at Water Street in Port Talbot is entering a…

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Kit Peters

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