South Wales Police are appealing for information after a fatal road traffic accident on Harbour Way in Port Talbot. The collision, between a Skoda Octavia and...
Losing her mum was devastating for Jessica Jones – but she drew comfort from knowing it helped save a child who had been given hours to...
A freeport bid consortium consisting of Associated British Ports, Neath Port Talbot Council, Pembrokeshire County Council and the Port of Milford Haven has been launched to...
The team at Swansea-based kidney charity Popham Kidney Support say they were delighted when members of the Ynys Freemason Lodge surprised them by delivering a cheque for £1,000...
The Wales and the Battle of Britain Touring Exhibition has been officially opened this week (Mon 5 September) by the Mayor of Neath Port Talbot, Councillor...
Visitors to Aberafan Shopping Centre will be greeted with a full-size replica of a Battle of Britain Mk I/II Supermarine Spitfire plane next week. The striking...
28 year-old Michael Pursey from Port Talbot is taking on the “Rock Bottom to Mountain top” challenge which will see him climb Pen y Fan three...
Action for Children’s Park House short breaks service in Port Talbot has celebrated with a party at its Sandfields home. Staff, children and their families gathered...
Parts of Port Talbot town centre were underwater today as torrential rain led to flash flooding as the heatwave came to a dramatic end. The images...
The search for a princess has come to an end, as MTAZ Productions announces a princess for the forthcoming Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime at Port...
An exhibition telling the story of Wales’s contribution in the largest air battle ever recorded is coming to Port Talbot this autumn. The Wales and the...
Tata Steel in Port Talbot has celebrated 40 years of operation of the plant’s Continuous Caster number 1, which has cast over 63 million tonnes of...
The Port Talbot depot of UK bakery group, Warburtons has donated 30,000 products to those in need in the local community over the past 9 months....
Ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Welsh Boxing has revealed it is aiming to improve on its medal tally from four years ago. And gunning...
Four young South Wales market traders are to showcase their skills in the final of a UK-wide competition. They were the highest placed competitors in the...
Port Talbot RNLI crew have been awarded 17 Platinum Jubilee medals and 9 long service awards to mark 479 volunteering years. The volunteer crew at Port...
Following refurbishment, visitors to Port Talbot will once again be able to visit the shop located at the lifeboat station at Aberavon seafront. The shop refit...
A dozen men were arrested following a series of pre-planned raids at addresses in Neath and Swansea on Wednesday (15 June) in a police operation aimed at...
A South Wales theatre production company is looking for a member of the public in Neath Port Talbot to join its professional pantomime cast this year...
Port Talbot’s Central Primary School is the latest in Wales to open its own ‘pay as you can’ shop aimed at helping not only pupils but...
A pair of nesting seagulls who held up the opening of the popular Aquasplash attraction on Aberavon Beach have abandoned the nest paving the way for...
Social housing provider Tai Tarian have announced that they will be permanently closing their offices on at Windsor Road Neath and Forge Road Port Talbot. The...
Regional bus operator First Cymru are launching their open top services once again this June. Two new open-top bus routes in Tenby and Aberavon are joining...
A new £10m Property Development Fund (PDF) aimed at boosting investment in the Port Talbot Waterfront area is now open with Neath Port Talbot Council seeking...
Aberavon Beach has been named as one of country’s best beaches by environmental charity Keep Wales Tidy which has awarded it the prestigious Seaside Award for...
A new COVID vaccination centre for Port Talbot is opening at Aberavon Shopping Centre. Situated next door to B&M, near the river bridge entrance, Swansea Bay...
South Wales Police have launched an appeal to find missing Waunarlwydd woman, Kelly Randall. 45 year-old Kelly was last seen in Port Talbot on Tuesday 3...
A Port Talbot scaffolder has been jailed for 12 years for heading up a drugs gang. Three men, who were part of the organised crime group...
The rider of a motorcycle who died in a road traffic collision close to Morriston Hospital in Cwmrhydyceirw has been named as Syed Asim Ali Shah,...
A junior rugby club in Port Talbot has secured a grant to purchase a high-tech camera to film training sessions and matches. Taibach RFC U15s has...
The election for the Port Talbot electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot Council on Thursday 5 May, 2022 will be rearranged following the sad death of...
A Neath man received custodial sentences totalling 24 months at Swansea Crown Court on Monday 28th March 2022, in connection with a fraudulent attempt to claim...
Rowan Lovering and Rowan Thomas have a lot in common. Apart from their shared name, they both went to the same school, come from villages just...
Event management company Front Runner Events have announced that they will take-over the organisation of the Port Talbot Half Marathon The event, set in the idyllic...
A 70 year-old man from Taibach has died following reports of an assault at a property on Dan-y-Bryn Road in Port Talbot. South Wales Police were...
The first ever Physical Disability Rugby League (PDRL) trials in Wales took place last Saturday in Port Talbot as Wales prepare for this autumn’s Physical Disability...
Neath Port Talbot Council are looking for prospective operators to tender for a lease to operate and maintain a café, informal visitor information centre and campsite...
Work to build almost 140 houses on Aberavon seafront is set to start shortly. Persimmon say they are breathing fresh life into the former Afan Lido...
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) charity shop in Port Talbot is selling a selection of preloved items from none other than Hollywood favourite, Michael Sheen. With...
Rachel Ann Thomas, an RNLI volunteer at Port Talbot for 21 years has been promoted to Deputy Launch Authority. This new role means she will be...
Defence engineering specialists MMEngineering are enjoying record growth as they prepare to relocate to their second home on the Port Talbot Waterfront Enterprise Zone. Established in...
A new mural has been unveiled at the recently re-opened Sandfields Library, with the aim of welcoming the local community back to the building following the...
The new homes will be insulated using wood, wool, and mushrooms Two Neath-based construction companies – J.G. Hale Construction, and timber frame construction specialist, SO Modular – are collaborating on a state-of-the-art project to build 55 new homes, and refurbish 72 existing flats, in...
Barclays has confirmed the permanent closure of its Gorseinon and Port Talbot bank branches as part of its swath of almost 50 branch closures across the...
Street artist Banksy’s mural ‘Season’s Greetings’ that appeared on a garage in Port Talbot in 2018 is to leave the town for an exhibition in Peterborough...
More than 87,000 additional homes and businesses across south Wales are a step closer to a major broadband boost thanks to a £30million investment by Openreach. People living and...
Neath Port Talbot Council engineers are currently carrying out additional inspections of Port Talbot’s 118-year-old Newbridge Road Bridge which was closed to vehicles in 1972 and...
Five people have been charged with drugs offences as part of an operation by the South Wales Police’s Force Intelligence and Organised Crime Unit. Throughout this...
Free Christmas parking has been approved for Neath, Port Talbot and Pontardawe town centres from Saturday, December 11th 2021 to Saturday, January 1st, 2022. Members of...
Swansea Bay health board have announced two new free bus routes to help people get to the mass vaccination centre at the Bay Field Hospital from...
Rhino Doors, the UK’s leading manufacturer of high-performance engineered doors, has seen significant growth in 2021, amid the continued expansion of its services to clients across transport, defence and critical national...
South Wales Police are standing down an investigation into an alleged assault of a 13 year-old boy after finding that the “incident was not as reported...
South Wales Police are appealing for information after a 13 year-old boy was assaulted on Gwendoline Street in Aberavon at around 8.40am this morning (Friday 1...
Enforcement on 50mph stretches of some of Wales’ busiest and most polluted motorways and trunk roads – including the M4 around Port Talbot, will kick in...
Bus company First Cymru has announced some major changes to their network, reducing the frequency of services and outsourcing some routes to other operators due to...
Toilet facilities on Aberavon Seafront were put out of action by vandal attack on Friday. Doors and partitions were severely damaged in the attack on the...
Neath Port Talbot Council’s Planning Committee has granted Persimmon Homes West Wales conditional planning permission to build 137 homes on the site of the former Afan...
Can your dog take Dorothy down the Yellow Brick Road? If your waggy-tailed pooch has the looks, style and personality of a star performer then this...
Two men have been charged with drugs offences after a number of intelligence-led warrants were executed in the Port Talbot area. Officers from South Wales Police’s...
Work on regenerating the Harbourside Strategic Employment Site in Port Talbot’s former docklands continues to progress, with senior members of Neath Port Talbot Council joining others...
In total, eight community projects across South Wales have been awarded a share of over £800k in funding by the Welsh Government. The Community Facilities Programme...
Parking in town centres in Neath Port Talbot will be free for the month of August 2021 to give support to town centre based businesses whose...
Port Talbot’s Princess Royal Theatre will be one of the first theatres in Wales to re-open in 2021 with a live event later this month when...
Port Talbot’s busiest retail centre now has a six-strong team of Community First Responders providing all-day assistance for shoppers who have a medical emergency. The Aberafan...
The popular Aqua Splash attraction for children and families will re-open at Aberavon Beach on Monday (5 July) with a range of more than 30 exciting...
The transformation of Port Talbot’s former Plaza Cinema – which inspired the town’s famous trio of Sir Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton and Michael Sheen – is...
Multi-million pound plans for a new Piazza in Neath Town Centre, a major upgrading of Port Talbot’s Civic Square with improvements to the town’s Riverside area...
Supermarket workers who came to the aid of a customer in cardiac arrest have been praised for their quick-thinking actions. Staff at Tesco in Port Talbot...
A month on from Neath Port Talbot Council’s plea for facebook photographers and Instagrammers to stay away from picturesque Brombil Reservoir due to parking chaos and...
It’s big, it’s bold, it’s becoming a familiar sight in Swansea Bay and now the Immbulance, the vaccination clinic on wheels, has made the Port Talbot...
A Port Talbot mum whose child imagined the Covid virus was “like a giant, scary T-Rex” has written a picture book designed to help youngsters overcome...
A violent offender believed to have been setting up a new drugs line into south west Wales was disrupted by police as he travelled through Carmarthenshire....
Port Talbot-based Deer Technology has secured equity investment totalling £1.32 million and announced a £2.5 million contract win with Wave, a leading retailer in the non-household...
Three people are currently in police custody following a disturbance in Neath which left eight people – including three officers – injured. Police were called to...
Work on regenerating the Harbourside Strategic Employment Site in Port Talbot’s former docks area is to begin on 22 March. Improvement work at the site will...
Richard John Evans, of Brook Street, Port Talbot, a director of Crystal Style Home Improvements Ltd, was sentenced to 34 months in prison at Swansea Crown...
Three people from Neath Port Talbot, including a 12-year-old boy recovering from cancer who saved a man from drowning, have been shortlisted for the Welsh Government’s...
A total of 138 fixed penalty notices were issued by South Wales Police at the weekend, as a minority continued to breach Welsh Government coronavirus restrictions....
Ministry of Furniture, the company which emerged from Remploy Furniture, has returned to its roots, in part, by making a significant investment in skills and technology...
A collaboration between researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute at Swansea University and cement producer Hanson UK has seen the installation of a new green...
A mobile hairdresser from Port Talbot has been served with a fixed penalty notice for allegedly flouting Coronavirus regulations by carrying on her business at a...
Following a series of false rumours about the reasons for the temporary closure of a shop on Margam Road, Port Talbot, earlier this month, Neath Port...
Police in Port Talbot have issued four Section 59 warnings to off road bikers involved in anti-social behaviour in the Afan Forestry over the weekend. The...
British Transport Police investigating a sexual assault on-board a train travelling between Port Talbot and Swansea are appealing for witnesses. The incident took place at around...
Work starts next week on a new outdoor gym facility at Port Talbot’s Aberavon Seafront. The project will include a range of fitness equipment designed to...