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Cost of living news for South West Wales: energy bills, fuel, food and rent, council tax, the help available and how rising prices are hitting households across the region. More Money news.
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…
PETROL PRICES: Google Maps now shows you the cheapest fuel near you
Every forecourt has had to report its prices within half an hour since February. From today the numbers sit on…
COST OF LIVING: People are turning down jobs because they can’t afford the fuel to get there, council’s own team tells inquiry
Swansea Council's employment mentors say clients have rejected job offers over the cost of getting to work, cannot afford the…
ENERGY BILLS: VAT scrapped from electricity – but you’ll still pay more
A typical home keeps around £45 a year it would otherwise have paid, a little more in south Wales. Whether…
ALCOHOL: Cheapest booze goes up 30% in Wales from today, and the deaths it was meant to stop are at a record
The minimum price of a unit rises from 50p to 65p from Thursday. Ministers say it will save hundreds of…
MARTIN LEWIS: ‘Genuine step forward’ as bailiffs forced to answer to a watchdog
The money expert says most people who get a bailiff at the door are vulnerable. After years of campaigning, the…
ROGUE TRADERS: Crackdown targets the gutter-clean con that fleeced valley pensioners
The scam the UK Government wants to kill off is one Swansea Bay courtrooms know well. New protections will hold…
SWANSEA: One of the UK’s cheapest cities for a Friday night curry, survey finds
New research puts the average chicken tikka masala in Swansea at £10.40, cheaper than Cardiff and nearly £5 less than…
ENERGY BILLS: Older people in Wales have ‘nothing left to cut back on’ as prices rise again, warns Age Cymru
Ofgem has confirmed a 4% rise in the price cap from 1 October, adding around £5 a month to a…
TOWNHILL: Breakfast, a mile-long walk and dodgeball, what £700,000 of summer funding looks like on the ground
The Phoenix Centre summer club is one of hundreds of projects sharing the council's holiday fund, which pays for food…
BABY FORMULA: Parents watering down feeds and going without heating as prices soar, Swansea study finds
Nearly half of the 281 struggling parents in the first UK study of its kind, led by Swansea University, had…