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PUB TAX: Four Swansea pubs cut prices for a day, as Gower’s MP pushes the VAT case in Westminster
The Potters Wheel, the Bank Statement, the Red Lion and the Mardy Inn take 7.5% off everything on Thursday. It…
LLANELLI: Aldi wants you to lobby for a new store, 16 months after it shut the one in town
The company is asking residents to write to Carmarthenshire Council backing its Sandy Road plan, publishing figures from its own…
ST HELEN’S ROAD: Two jailed over the £184,000 illegal tobacco trade run through a shop called Swansea Market
A first-floor flat on the street held more than 9,000 packets of cigarettes feeding the shop below, a Swansea Council…
LLANELLI: Petition launched to move or shut the site blamed for summer’s fly plague
Glanymor councillors Sean Rees and Louvain Roberts say enforcement alone is not enough, and want the future of the AMG…
SWANSEA: Masked e-bike riders face £75 on-the-spot fines under tough new street rules
Riders who endanger pedestrians, or hide their faces to dodge identification, would be fined under a new three-year Public Spaces…
NEATH: Woman faked four family deaths to claim £22,000 in travel insurance, arrested as she flew home
Sally Harris backed her claims with forged death certificates, City of London Police say. She was arrested at Heathrow in…
LLANELLI: Town’s Premier Inn goes up for sale with the Sandpiper as Whitbread seeks ‘whole site exit’
Whitbread has told Swansea Bay News it is marketing the hotel and the closed lakeside restaurant together as a going…
FLIGHT CHAOS: Hundreds of flights cancelled in air traffic failure, with Cardiff and Bristol affected
A fault in NATS's flight-processing system grounded departures across the UK this afternoon. The system is recovering, but airlines warn…
SCHOOL BUS SHAKE-UP: Catchment-only free transport signed off for 2027
Carmarthenshire's cabinet has approved the policy ending free transport to your nearest school where it isn't your catchment school, taking…
BREWERS FAYRE: Last orders after 45 years, with the Sandpiper’s doors already locked
All 89 remaining Brewers Fayres served their final meals on Monday night, ending a 45-year brand. In Llansamlet, Swansea Vale…
HOTEL HUNT: Premier Inn wants new hotels in Mumbles, Carmarthen and Milford Haven
The owner of Premier Inn has named Mumbles, Carmarthen and the Milford Haven and Pembroke area among the places it…