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GOWERTON: Flood regulator says 216-home site ‘did not fully comply’ with flood guidance, then agrees flooding can be left out of the study

Natural Resources Wales has backed Persimmon on flooding, contamination and landscape, while joining the council in questioning the age of…

ST HELEN’S: Rugby is back at the old ground on 7 October, and Gower College get first go at the new pitch

Swansea RFC return in their 150th year at St Helen's, with college and university sides opening the ground first. The…

CARWAY: Council weighing village school’s long-term future as £1.8m classrooms stay on hold

Carway's children started a second school year being bussed to Pontyates this month, 13 months after their own school was…

ST HELEN’S: Terrace will have no roof when the Ospreys move in next month, and season members are being offered seats instead

The club says the covered terrace has been pushed into a later phase of the rebuild, with no date. In…

SINGLETON LIVE: Simply Red named first headliner for Singleton Park, and it’s their only Welsh show of 2027

Mick Hucknall's band play the park on Friday 20 August 2027, with Lisa Stansfield and M People's Heather Small on…

SWANSEA: St Helen’s Road student block to open as 72 homeless studios in the new year

Keys to the former Sun Alliance House, latterly Boutique Student Living, change hands next week, cabinet heard, with Codi fitting…

SWANSEA: Council leader warns of ‘Trump-style shutdown’ if Welsh Government can’t pass its budget

Cabinet adopted the finance chief's spending restrictions for the rest of the year on Wednesday, with reserves at £10m against…

RATES CUT: Verdi’s boss says only one of his five venues gets the 30% hospitality cut, and calls the £51,000 line “a cliff edge”

The Welsh Government announced on Tuesday that pubs, cafés, restaurants and gyms will get a permanent 30% business rates cut…

TRAM-TRAIN: The plan to run trams from the Neath valley into Swansea, and why councillors are being told to wait

A line from Swansea High Street through the docks and the Bay Campus to Neath and Aberdulais has been drawn,…

SWANSEA: Council orders ‘severe spending restrictions’ three months into the year, and one service is carrying almost all the damage

A freeze on vacancies and non-essential spending is already in force three months into the financial year, with adult care…