DAILY BRIEFING: Argos sold, 216 Gowerton homes stuck, and inside the school left empty for a decade

ARGOS SOLD: The eight south west Wales stores caught up in the £120m deal

Sainsbury’s is selling the chain a decade after buying it for £1.4bn, with six standalone branches and two in-store counters across south west Wales part of the deal.

GOWERTON: Decision on 216 homes slips further away as Persimmon stays silent over crucial environmental study

The Fairwood Terrace homes cannot be approved or refused until Persimmon produces a major environmental study, and the housebuilder has gone five weeks without replying.

MANSELTON: Star of the Week stars still hang inside the Victorian school left empty for a decade

Urban explorers’ photographs show classrooms left as they were in 2015, as ward councillor Peter Black says complaints about intruders have been referred to police.

SWANS: Copper returns on new home kit, on sale Saturday

White with copper and black pinstripes, the 2026-27 shirt nods to the city’s industrial past and gets its first outing against CD Leganés this weekend.

SWANS: Cullen bids emotional farewell after 19 years as Leicester move confirmed

“Once a Jack, Always a Jack”: the Kilgetty-born forward leaves after more than 200 appearances, joining Russell Martin’s Leicester on a three-year deal.

SWANSEA: ‘Do people want to see me live?’ Queen’s Roger Taylor ahead of his arena show

The drummer closes his tour at Swansea Building Society Arena on 29 September, and talks kindness, a South African choir and why his son out-drums him.

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SWANSEA: The £100m plan to heat the city centre with warmth from the sewage works

A heat network from the Bay Campus into town could be fed by Dŵr Cymru’s wastewater works, though the council says a commercial operator would have to build it.

SWANSEA: Free buses return for the summer holidays, running until 11pm for the Airshow’s first night show

Buses across Swansea are free every weekend of the school summer holidays.

SWANSEA: Only 20 beaches in Wales fly the Blue Flag this summer, and three are on Gower

Langland, Caswell and Port Eynon are flying Blue Flags through the holidays, with Swansea Marina holding a fourth.

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