Port Talbot

PORT TALBOT: Woman who ignored fly-tipping investigators handed £1,637 bill

It was not the dumped rubbish that put Danielle Rigdon in court. It was the calls, letters, home visit and…

PORT TALBOT: Council clears up which bridge the Chancellor’s £11m is for, and says it’s a flood risk

It is the one under the canopy at the bottom of Station Road, and it has been standing since 1842.

NEATH PORT TALBOT: Three GP surgery websites could vanish “at any time” after the firm behind them collapsed

Patients at Mount Surgery, Castle Surgery and Victoria Gardens are being told how to order repeat prescriptions and sick notes…

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…

PORT TALBOT: Man who raped a teenager after handing out vodka jailed for eight years

Damien Samuel, 44, denied it and took it to trial. The judge called the two-year wait for the case to…

PORT TALBOT: Waste man took £490 to clear a house, then 14 bags were dumped under the M4

Nathan Pearce drove the load to Briton Ferry recycling centre, spoke to staff and left, the council says. It turned…

PORT TALBOT: Tata found guilty after two steelworkers breathed in gas at 18 times the safe limit

The pair stayed behind until every contractor was out, and now the steel giant faces a fine.

PORT TALBOT: Artist’s impressions show the 1903 Newbridge Road Bridge rebuilt for walkers and cyclists after ten years fenced off

Two of its three spans keep ironwork that is older than the bridge itself, the middle one goes, and the…

TRIATHLON: World silver in New Mexico for Port Talbot’s Iwan Froley, with only his dad there to see it

He spent the whole run expecting the Italian behind him to catch him. The cost of getting to America meant…

PORT TALBOT: Two of Vivian Park’s three gates to shut after 3pm as police target e-bike riders

From Monday, only one way into the park will be open each afternoon for three weeks, and it changes every…

PORT TALBOT: Government pays EY £1m to vet Tata’s plea for more furnace money

The furnace meant to bring steelmaking back to the works is running late, and Tata is reported to want hundreds…