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TAKE BACK CONTROL: Swansea demands power to block new vape shops after Mansel Street raids
Councillors backed a call for England-style planning powers over vape shops as a cabinet member revealed six arrests in raids…
BURRY PORT: 57,000 cubic metres of sand gone as harbour diggers finish on Wednesday
Mechanical dredging ends on 9 September with a new deeper channel cut to the estuary, before a specialist vessel arrives…
CARMARTHENSHIRE: First hour free in every council car park, but the towns’ free parking days face the axe
Monday's cabinet report proposes a free first hour then a flat rate in all 67 council car parks, with cheaper…
SWANSEA: Gang who stole £328,000 of cars to order sentenced as some vehicles surface in Cyprus
Sean McCabe orchestrated thefts of high-value cars across Wales and England that were re-plated and resprayed before being sold on,…
SWANSEA: Councillors want the power to say no to more vape shops, barbers and nail bars
A barber, a vape shop or a nail bar can open on any Swansea street without asking, and the council…
SWANSEA BAY METRO: Every new station and tram line now has a price tag – but the funding still has to be found
Each piece of the Swansea Bay Metro now has a price tag for the first time: Cockett station, hourly trains…
SWANSEA: He painted Bonnie Tyler to hand it to her in person. Now it’s the centrepiece of his first exhibition
Ian Hendry, the Swansea pop artist known as PopDragonArt, was due to give Bonnie Tyler an original portrait shortly before…
THREE CROSSES: Back from maternity leave and open three days a week, Lucy’s home salon has just been named the best in the UK
Lucy Hellyer Jones runs Lucy's Beauty Studio from her house on Cilonnen Road on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. On 15…
SOUTH WEST WALES NETWORK: One umbrella brand for public transport from Pembrokeshire to Swansea
Councillors from the four counties are asked on Wednesday to adopt a single name for the region's buses, hire bikes,…
PORT TALBOT: The steel going up beside the station is a £28m carbon lab the council says will bring 95 jobs
Three years after it was announced and two after the furnaces went cold, the SWITCH research hub is finally rising…