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Custody photographs of Craig Godfrey, left, and Michaela Nicholls, right, side by side
South Wales Police

ST HELEN’S ROAD: Couple jailed after woman’s ex was stabbed in the neck in a 6am street fight

He thought he’d been punched. CCTV shows traffic trying to get round the fight.

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Kit Peters
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.

Aerial view of Carmarthen Leisure Centre in Johnstown with the grassed field beside its tennis courts, Llansteffan Road to the left and the River Towy to the right
Affordable Housing

CARMARTHEN: Neighbours line up against 38 council homes behind the leisure centre

The council is the one applying, and three of its own councillors say too few people on Llansteffan Road have…

A lorry with a red crane arm under the Trafle Mill railway bridge on Victoria Road, Gowerton, with traffic queuing in both directions
Collison

GOWERTON: Brand-new utilities lorry strikes Wales’ most-hit railway bridge

It’s the third strike at the bridge we’ve reported this year, and the lorry is brand new, on a plate…

Paul Potts in a bow tie beside a vintage microphone, inset over the Yr Aelwyd lettering on Port Talbot's rebuilt theatre
Britain's Got Talent

PORT TALBOT: Paul Potts comes home to open the rebuilt theatre, 20 years after Britain’s Got Talent

The tenor who won over the Britain’s Got Talent judges with Nessun Dorma will sing at Yr Aelwyd, the old…

Mark Francis in a white Ospreys shirt and Helen Francis in an Ospreys scarf laughing in stadium seats, each holding a glass of champagne
Euromillions

HELP FROM BEYOND: Swansea man asked his late dad for help. Days later, he won £1m

With Halloween a week away, Mark Francis says four words to his late father came days before his £1m EuroMillions…

Aerial view of St Helen's in Swansea with the new green artificial pitch and floodlight columns, construction work around it, and the beach and bay towards Mumbles behind
Dragons

ST HELEN’S: ‘This one truly is our own’: Ospreys ready to put a marker down in their first game at the rebuilt ground

Mark Jones and Sam Parry on what the players found at St Helen’s this week, the pitch they can’t fault,…

The red graffiti-covered shutter of Asia Vape on St Helen's Road, Swansea, with court closure notices taped to it under the shop's purple and pink sign
Cllr Andrew Williams

ST HELEN’S ROAD: Asia Vape shut for a second time in a year as three more Swansea vape shops are closed

Magistrates have closed Vape City and Asia Vape on St Helen’s Road and Vape Zone on Dilwyn Street, the council…

Aerial view of the rebuilt St Helen's ground with its green artificial pitch, white marquees at the Guildhall end, and Swansea Bay and the beach across Mumbles Road
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ST HELEN’S: Verdi’s owner takes over the food at the Ospreys’ new ground, and promises ‘Swansea’s biggest party space’

Ryan Hole’s Secret Hospitality Group, which runs The Secret across the road, ROK and The Lighthouse, will run hospitality and…

Two South Wales Police officers in helmets and hi-vis sit on yellow and black Sur-Ron electric motorbikes on a tarmac path, with a police drone on the ground in front of them
antisocial behaviour

SOUTH WALES POLICE: Officers get Sur-Rons of their own, the e-bikes they keep seizing in Swansea

The force says the lightweight electric motorbikes will get officers through traffic and down roads patrol cars can't reach. It…

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…