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A group of Coed Brân service users and staff, including wheelchair users, beneath the Coed Brân sign at the Llansamlet centre
Cllr Hayley Gwilliam

LLANSAMLET: Riverside boardwalk and sensory garden open at Coed Brân day service

Service users helped build both, and cut the ribbon themselves at an open day showing off the transformed outdoor spaces…

Five people in hi-vis vests and hard hats stand outside a new red brick and dark-clad house at the Garden Village development
affordable homes

GARDEN VILLAGE: Council buys 141 homes at new estate, 70 for the housing waiting list

Swansea Council has bought the affordable homes at Persimmon's Garden Village development outright, the first time it has done so,…

A split-screen image showing WRU CEO Abi Tierney, a woman with blonde hair in a purple jacket, and Swansea Council Leader Rob Stewart, a man with short brown hair in a blue suit.
Abi Tierney

WRU: Council restarts legal fight after union ‘broke assurances’ over Ospreys

Swansea Council says it paused its High Court challenge in May only after the WRU promised no decisions had been…

Steel beams and timber joists span the interior of the roofless stone Laboratory Building, with scaffolding and blue sky above
Bascule Bridge

LANDORE: New floors go into the copperworks ruin that could become a 100-seat restaurant

The Laboratory Building is getting floors for the first time in decades. It is one of six schemes now under…

A boy sitting with a controller playing Minecraft on a large screen, with a laptop video call beside him
ALN

SWANSEA: The summer wellbeing sessions being run inside Minecraft

More than 30 children with additional learning needs are expected to take part, after Swansea Council put money behind a…

Cllr Rob Stewart and Lord Mayor Cllr Penny Matthews sitting at a table signing the Bonnie Tyler book of condolence inside Y Storfa library
Bonnie Tyler

BONNIE TYLER: Book of condolence opens in Swansea city centre on Monday

Swansea Council is opening a book of condolence for Bonnie Tyler at Y Storfa on Oxford Street from Monday, running…

The Fairwood Terrace street sign at its junction with Victoria Road, Gowerton, with a low stone railway bridge crossing the road ahead and traffic passing through — the site of a proposed traffic signal-controlled junction.
Burry Inlet

GOWERTON: Decision on 216 homes slips further away as Persimmon stays silent over crucial environmental study

The homes planned at Fairwood Terrace beside Gowerton station cannot be approved or rejected until Persimmon produces a major environmental…

Exterior of the abandoned former Manselton School in Swansea, a three-storey Victorian stone building with turrets, boarded ground-floor windows and weeds growing through the yard
B&R Urban Explorers UK

MANSELTON: Star of the Week stars still hang inside the Victorian school left empty for a decade

Urban explorers' photographs show classrooms left as they were when the last pupils moved out in 2015 inside the Grade…

Split image of Cllr Peter May in a hi-vis jacket and the Leaf Boat sculpture in the Castle Square pool
Castle Square

UPLANDS: Leaf boat move should have paid for Victoria Park toilets, says councillor

Cllr Peter May says he welcomes the Leaf Boat's new Cwmdonkin Park home, but argues the money he challenged at…

Torsten Bell MP - Member of Parliament for Swansea West and Pensions Minister.
Cardiff Rugby

WRU: Swansea MP likens union to ‘a crook returning to the scene of their crime’

Pensions minister Torsten Bell says the WRU is doubling down "on the failed old plan" months after backing down, as…