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SWANSEA ON SCREEN: The Civic Centre is a London police HQ, the Guildhall is a bank and No Sign Bar is a London pub in this year’s TV dramas
Ten productions have filmed in the city in the past year, a council report shows, from Netflix and Amazon to…
SWANSEA: Residents tell council the city’s culture is under-funded and too hung up on Dylan Thomas
Residents told the council the city's culture is short of investment, and some said it leans too heavily on Dylan…
CASTLE SQUARE: Swansea is looking for someone to run the cafés in its new gardens
The council has started looking for café and restaurant operators for the two pavilions going up in Castle Square Gardens,…
SWANSEA: The seafront Covid memorial is finished, and it’s a place for anyone to sit and remember
Sculpted steel, three circles of coloured glass inspired by the peacock butterfly, and seats facing the bay. The memorial near…
SWANSEA: The family firm behind the city’s free Christmas dinner at the Brangwyn Hall says it has given £250,000 to good causes
JR Group, which runs Together at Christmas with Swansea Council, says the total covers fundraising, sponsorship, donations and in-kind support.…
SWANSEA FERRY: “Not a council proposal”, leader says, as councillors ask what checks were made on the £25,000 report behind it
Opposition councillors want to know what checks were made before £24,999.95 of public money paid for Ocean Prime's ferry report,…
SWANSEA: Council plans to drain £22m from savings pots meant for crematorium repairs and school IT to cover staff equal pay claims
The money was put aside for things like crematorium repairs, the bus station and school IT. Councillors are being asked…
SWANSEA: Francesca O’Brien takes the council’s £13.7m overspend to the Senedd and asks for the ALN cash to go straight to councils
The Gŵyr Abertawe MS put the spending freeze and the reserves to the education minister on Wednesday. Anna Brychan said…
SCHOOL SWIMMING: Every Year 4 and 5 pupil in Swansea and Carmarthenshire gets 20 hours of lessons from this term
Nofio Ysgol starts this month in nine council areas, with the rest of Wales to follow by 2028. The First…
NATURE RESERVES: The 14 Swansea green spaces about to get protected status, from Port Eynon to Pontarddulais
Clyne Valley, the Mumbles cliffs, Loughor foreshore and the Lower Swansea Valley are among 14 council-owned sites the council says…