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Head-and-shoulders photo of Clifford Foster, a grey-haired man in a white hooded top, against a cream wall
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BRIDGEND MURDER: Man charged with Eleanor Barnfield murder appears in court

He will appear at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday. The ambulance service has found no record of a 999 call…

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Kit Peters
A grey SUV against a wall on Coity Road, Bridgend, with police tape and cones across the road and an officer by the Ty Ogwr building
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BRIDGEND MURDER: Ambulance service says delayed-response rumours are ‘factually untrue’

A rapid response car reached Coity Road seven minutes after the 999 call on Monday, the Welsh Ambulance Service says,…

Eleanor Barnfield smiling in a navy puffer jacket and blue rucksack on a rocky path beside a waterfall
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BRIDGEND MURDER: Police name Coity Road victim as Eleanor Barnfield, 47, ‘our rock’ to her family

The Valleys to Coast worker died in hospital after her car hit a wall on Monday. A 61-year-old man remains…

A grey Hyundai SUV with its front against a damaged brick wall and railings on Coity Road, Bridgend
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BRIDGEND: Woman, 47, dies and man, 61, arrested on suspicion of murder after Coity Road crash

Police say the 47-year-old driver's injuries were not caused by the crash. A 61-year-old man is in custody after an…

Three shopfronts inside the Quadrant Shopping Centre — a TGJones store on the left, the Post Office and Swyddfa'r Post in the middle, and a Toys R Us store on the right, with two shoppers walking past on a polished tiled floor.
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SWANSEA: TGJones confirms closure date for the Quadrant’s old WHSmith

Swansea's former WHSmith in the Quadrant has been given a closing date. The Post Office inside it will shut days…

South Wales Police custody photograph of Michael Davies, a grey-haired man with a beard
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BRIDGEND MURDER: Husband who strangled Tracey Davies at their Cefn Cribwr home jailed for life

Michael Davies, 57, must serve at least 14 years. Tracey's family say no sentence will ever reflect the one they…

Three shop staff standing in front of the TGJones store in Bridgend's Rhiw Shopping Centre, with yellow 'store closing down, up to 30% off' posters filling the window behind them
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BRIDGEND: TGJones closing-down posters go up in the Rhiw, the second of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go

The shop that was WHSmith until last year has "store closing down, everything must go" posters in its windows at…

South Wales Police custody photograph of Daffydd Piper, a young man with short dark hair and light stubble
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BRIDGEND: Man, 21, jailed for raping woman who told him ‘we’re not having sex’

Daffydd Piper ignored the woman's repeated refusals, then told her by Snapchat "I'm sorry, I should have stopped" before claiming…

Computer-generated image of a white M&S Food store with a green entrance and cars in the car park in front
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BRIDGEND: First M&S in the county borough planned for Waterton Road

An M&S Food, a new Aldi and a Costa drive-through are lined up for the old car lot off the…

Joely McNamara smiling over her shoulder in a halter-neck dress on Main Street at a Florida theme park
Bridgend

BRIDGEND: Joely hid a lump on her back for years. In Florida this summer she wore the bikini

Mental health counsellor Joely McNamara was told her eight-centimetre lipoma was harmless and would not be removed on the NHS.…

Tracey Davies, 48, who was murdered at her home in Cefn Cribwr in April 2025.
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BRIDGEND MURDER: Family remember ‘extraordinary’ Tracey as husband found guilty of killing her

The family of Tracey Davies say they will “never come to terms” with losing a woman whose laughter could light…