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A grassy mound ringed by temporary metal fencing on bare, dug-over ground on Kilvey Hill, with conifers behind and solar panels and Swansea in the distance
archaeology

KILVEY HILL: Skyline fences off the ruins of a windmill first built in 1680

What's left of the old mill is now ringed by fencing as work on the gondola and luge attraction goes…

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…

Map of south-west Wales showing the Gwynt Glas wind farm area in the Celtic Sea and a red dashed scoping boundary running north-east to the Carmarthen Bay coast, from Tenby and Folly Farm to Burry Port and Llandyfaelog
Burry Port

CELTIC SEA: Giant floating wind farm will come ashore at Carmarthen Bay, with every cable underground

The floating wind farm's cables would end at a village already braced for contested pylon lines coming the other way.…

Three shopfronts inside the Quadrant Shopping Centre — a TGJones store on the left, the Post Office and Swyddfa'r Post in the middle, and a Toys R Us store on the right, with two shoppers walking past on a polished tiled floor.
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SWANSEA: TGJones confirms closure date for the Quadrant’s old WHSmith

Swansea's former WHSmith in the Quadrant has been given a closing date. The Post Office inside it will shut days…

Swansea Council's lead trading standards officer Rhys Harries with two South Wales Police officers in front of the closed shutters of Monsoon Vape in Morriston, with court closure notices displayed
Cllr Andrew Williams

MORRISTON: Two vape shops shut down after undercover officers bought illegal vapes and fake tobacco

Four people were arrested and a suspected delivery vehicle seized in the raids that followed, Swansea Council says.

Drone view of the Skyline gondola base station site at Landore, with a piling rig, blue site cabins and a scaffolded column of steel reinforcement on a concrete base, and the cleared gondola line running up Kilvey Hill behind
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LANDORE: The gondola terminal’s ‘bones’ are about to go up at the park and ride

Foundations for Skyline's base station are finished, and the steel frame is next, so the building's shape will soon be…

The front of Ysgol Bro Banw primary school in Ammanford, a red-brick building with a Croeso Welcome sign
Carmarthenshire Council

CARMARTHENSHIRE: Parents get one week to have their say on Welsh-medium switch at four primary schools

Two of the four schools are the ones lined up to take in children from village schools facing the axe.

Yellow store closing down posters in the windows of the TGJones shop at Parc Trostre retail park in Llanelli
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LLANELLI: Closing-down signs go up at TGJones in Trostre, the third of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go

Staff say the shop that was WHSmith until last year has weeks left. The chain has still not announced a…

Two workers in orange hi-vis and hard hats spraying a green seed mix from a hose onto a bare earth bank beside temporary fencing, with woodland behind
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KILVEY HILL: The Skyline site’s bare slopes are being sprayed green to grow a meadow

Crews are hosing a mix of seed, mulch and nutrients onto the ground stripped for the gondola and luge. It's…

Four Carmarthenshire village primary schools in a two-by-two grid, each labelled: Ysgol Carwe, Ysgol Pontiets with its 150th anniversary banner, Ysgol Bancffosfelen and Ysgol Blaenau
Bancffosfelen

SCHOOL CLOSURES: Four more Carmarthenshire village schools face the axe, three of them in the Gwendraeth Valley

Blaenau was saved five years ago. Carway's children haven't been inside their own school for more than a year. Now…