Cllr Rob Stewart

Artist's impression of a brick-framed courtyard entrance with Frog Yard lettering, leading to café tables under a yellow canopy beneath an apartment block
Cllr Rob Stewart

PORTH COPR: 57 flats, cafés and a courtyard called Frog Yard proposed for old St David’s site

The next chapter for the old St David's site borrows a name from Swansea's past. You can see the first…

The old timber trestles of the Bascule Bridge standing in the River Tawe at Landore, with a crane barge and new timber fender rails alongside and riverside flats behind
Bascule Bridge

LANDORE: Divers are in the Tawe as the Bascule Bridge’s old supports come out

New fenders are going in to protect the bridge from boats, and there’s more to come around Christmas.

Close-up of Lyndon Faulkner, in a red scarf and dark quilted jacket, looking to his left at Cardiff Arms Park
Abi Tierney

WRU: New chair Lyndon Faulkner to review the cut that leaves the Ospreys or Scarlets facing the axe

He doesn’t officially start until next month, but he says he is no yes-man, and he hasn’t ruled out a…

Flames shooting up along the touchline under the floodlights as the Ospreys run out in front of a packed St Helen’s at night
Cardiff Rugby

ST HELEN’S: Council leader opens the rebuilt ground with the first whistle, then turns back to the WRU

Rob Stewart calls the Ospreys’ first night at their new home one of ‘huge pride’. He also has a message…

A crane lifting a curved steel section with a walkway and ladder onto a concrete pier at the Skyline base station site at Landore, with Kilvey Hill behind and a large yellow component on the ground
Cllr Rob Stewart

KILVEY HILL: First steel goes up on Swansea’s cable car base station at Landore

Skyline says the foundations are finished and the superstructure is rising, five months after construction began. The station will take…

Buses lined up at Swansea bus station with the former Debenhams building behind
Adventure Travel

FREE BUSES: Swansea’s buses are free on 19 days this Christmas, starting on parade weekend

Free travel starts in time for Santa and runs right through to New Year's Eve, but there is a cut-off…

Aerial view of Swansea Marina with boats, waterfront apartments, the National Waterfront Museum and the city stretching towards the hills.
Cllr Rob Stewart

GROWTH CASH: Got a £500k idea? Under two weeks to bid, and there’s a catch

The region’s councils want big ideas that can grow the economy. Every project has to be finished by December 2028.

Police officers, council officials and partners standing together in Dyfatty, Swansea, during the launch of a crime reduction project
antisocial behaviour

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
71/72 Kingsway

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…