Cllr Rob Stewart

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…

Rhun ap Iorwerth speaking in the Senedd chamber, gesturing, with MSs seated behind him.
additional learning needs

ALN FUNDING: Plaid and Labour strike £60m deal to revive the budget that fell in July

Labour asked for £100m this year and walked away from £40m. The number the two sides have settled on sits…

A dressmaker working at a sewing machine in her studio with a camera on a tripod beside her
carbon reduction

SWANSEA: Thinking of starting a business? The council could cover your first £2,000 of costs in full

It’s one of four grants now open, worth up to £50,000 to firms already trading. Most cover half the cost,…

IWG's Mark Potton and council leader Rob Stewart in suits outside the glass and concrete 71/72 Kingsway office building, with the 71/72 sign on its roof
71/72 Kingsway

KINGSWAY: Office block on old Oceana nightclub site named best in the UK

The former nightclub site won the British Council for Offices' Best of the Best award in London on Tuesday, five…

Cllr Rob Stewart
Abi Tierney

WRU: Swansea council leader likens licence report to counting fans’ Ninja airfryers

The union has published the evidence behind its licence decisions. Swansea's council leader says it doesn't stand up, and the…

Rows of small wooden remembrance crosses, each with a poppy at its centre, planted in the grass of the Garden of Remembrance in Swansea
Armed Forces

SWANSEA: Every Remembrance date this year, from the poppy appeal launch to the Armistice Day silence

Poppies go on sale later this month, the Sunday parade has its route and times, and the council says it…

Admiral Group House, a four-storey glass office building on Langdon Road in SA1, Swansea
Adam Price MS

ADMIRAL: Some of the jobs being cut are set to move to India, but the insurer won’t say how many are Swansea’s

The insurer says everyone affected has been briefed and "location was not a consideration". What it will not give Swansea…

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 could get powers to shut ‘cuckooed’ homes and bar troublemakers

Swansea Council adopted the powers in 2018 and its housing service never built them into day-to-day work. Cabinet is now…

A smiling woman in glasses with three children in a crowd at night, one girl pointing up at the sky
Bonfire Night

FIREWORKS: Swansea’s Bonfire Night display is leaving St Helen’s for Singleton Park

Lasers for the first time, a myths-and-magic theme, and tickets on sale now. What it costs, when the gates open…