The day’s local news from Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire, all in one place. Every headline links to the full story.
Son jailed after keeping his mother’s body in a freezer for three years
Christopher Phillips told his mother’s GP, and then police, that she had moved to London. He had collected £78,190 of her pension and benefits by the time she was found at their Porthcawl home.
The beach barbecue danger that’s putting people in the burns unit
Two people put their disposable barbecues out, moved them aside, then stepped on the sand underneath. One couldn’t walk for a fortnight. The other needed months.
Swansea Council restarts its High Court fight with the WRU
The council says it paused the challenge in May only because the union promised no licence decisions had been made. Days before the pause expired, Cardiff and the Dragons were handed two of the three.
Parc Howard’s duck pond is dry and Graham the goose has gone
The bandstand is fenced off too. A Llanelli councillor is petitioning against further cuts to the park the town was given in 1912.
Council buys 141 homes at Garden Village, 70 for the waiting list
The other 71 go to first-time buyers below market price. It’s the first time Swansea Council has taken direct ownership of the affordable homes in a planning deal.
Floors go back into the copperworks ruin that could become a restaurant
The Laboratory Building is one of six projects now reshaping Landore and the Tawe, from a bridge coming home to a cable car on Kilvey Hill.
Faster phone signal at Swansea University and two city hospitals
New equipment is live at both campuses and at Morriston and Singleton. There’s a catch: it only helps if you’re on Vodafone or Three.
Half the expected NHS dental work being done in Wales since April
Charges went up on 1 April and check-ups moved further apart. Four months on, dentists say activity is running at around half the expected level.
The summer wellbeing sessions being run inside Minecraft
More than 30 children with additional learning needs are expected to take part in a Swansea Council pilot.
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