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The Gothic stone building of Swansea Mosque and Islamic Community Centre with its tall pinnacled tower and a modern grey extension
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SWANSEA MOSQUE: Energy savings to fund winter warm packs for food bank users

The centre on St Helen’s Road is getting battery storage and a new heating system. It also runs a baby…

Police officers, council officials and partners standing together in Dyfatty, Swansea, during the launch of a crime reduction project
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SWANSEA: Council housing officers given powers to shut ‘cuckooed’ homes

Cabinet has signed off powers the council adopted in 2018 but never built into its housing work. Its report said…

Guests cut a red ribbon to open Mowbray Yard in Swansea city centre
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SWANSEA: New city centre garden opens in memory of the council officer behind the arena

It links the Kingsway and Oxford Street, with trees, benches and a giant mural. His daughter says it’s somewhere for…

Council leader Rob Stewart and the Lord Mayor of Swansea in black and gold robes stand with veterans and guests in Swansea Market as a piper plays in the foreground.
Armed Forces

SWANSEA: Where to get your poppy, as the Royal British Legion appeal launches at Swansea Market

A garden of crosses has gone up among the market stalls. From there, it’s just over three weeks to Remembrance…

South Wales Police custody photograph of David Novac, a man with a shaved head and a dark beard
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SWANSEA: Man jailed for five months after filming sex act without woman’s consent

David Novac changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on 7 October, police say. He will be on the…

South Wales Police custody photograph of Abdullah Saed, a man with short dark curly hair and a beard
assault

DYFATTY: London dealer who bit a police officer by the Matthew Street flats jailed for 32 months

Abdullah Saed, 25, had come from Penge to the tower blocks on Matthew Street with a car holding cocaine, cannabis,…

A grassy mound ringed by temporary metal fencing on bare, dug-over ground on Kilvey Hill, with conifers behind and solar panels and Swansea in the distance
archaeology

KILVEY HILL: Skyline fences off the ruins of a windmill first built in 1680

What's left of the old mill is now ringed by fencing as work on the gondola and luge attraction goes…

Aerial view of thousands of runners gathered at a start arch beneath the golden Copr Bay bridge in Swansea city centre
Cancer Research Wales

SWANSEA: The Great Welsh Marathon is leaving Pembrey for a loop of the city in October 2027

Front Runner Events is moving the race from Pembrey Country Park after more than ten years and wants 7,500 runners…

Volunteers in Christmas jumpers serving roast potatoes, carrots, peas and sprouts from a servery at Together at Christmas in the Brangwyn Hall
Brangwyn Hall

SWANSEA: Free Christmas dinner for the city’s homeless and lonely returns to the Brangwyn Hall on 1 December

Ten years and around 5,000 meals on, the dinner for people who are homeless, alone or struggling returns with a…

Wayne Bowron, a man in glasses and a navy hoodie, smiling beside a German shepherd dog in front of Christmas decorations
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GLAIS: Family’s tribute to ‘heart of gold’ motorcyclist Wayne Bowron, 52, who died in A4067 crash

His family say he would do anything for anyone and loved the friends he made through motorcycling. Police want dashcam…