THE WEEK’S BEST: The saint saved from the car park, bin crews checking your bags, and the Great Fair returns

The saint saved for the museum, bin crews checking your bags, the Great Fair's return, and the week's best reads you may have missed.

Kit Peters
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Swansea Bay News
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A Saturday round-up of the week’s most-read and best of Swansea Bay News, in case you missed them.

Close-up of the white St David's Shoppers Car Park lettering and bishop emblem on the red-brick multi-storey

SWANSEA: The car park is coming down, but the saint who welcomed you into town is saved for the museum

The week’s biggest story: what happens to a landmark thousands drove past every day.


Crowds walking between stalls and rides at the Neath Great Fair funfair on Milland Road, with hills behind

NEATH: The Great Fair is back on 9 September with a miniature funfair in the library as the new attraction

Everything you need before the fair returns to town on Wednesday.


Composite image showing pink recycling bags outside houses in Sandfields, Swansea, and a recycling worker giving pink bags to a student at his front door.

CLINK OR STINK: Swansea bin crews will be checking your black bags from this autumn

The recycling crackdown coming to your kerbside, and what crews will be looking for.


Artist's impression of three circular coloured glass sculptures on curved steel frames between trees on a grassy promenade, with wildflowers and Swansea Bay behind

SWANSEA: Work begins on the seafront Covid memorial, with an unveiling promised this month

The quiet start of a landmark years in the asking.


Photomontage showing large windowless data centre buildings and a multi-storey structure rising behind a hedgerow and rough grassland, with an electricity pylon between them

DATA CENTRES: A new industrial revolution is rising on south Wales’s old factory floors, and it arrives hungry and thirsty

The weekend read: what’s actually moving into the old industrial units.


Beth Morgan in a yellow RNLI lifeguard top holding binoculars and looking out over a busy beach

PORTHCAWL: Lifeguard, 21, helped design the RNLI’s new beach huts. Now she works out of one at Trecco Bay

The story readers shared all week.


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Kit Peters

Kit Peters is a journalist and the editor of Swansea Bay News, covering Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire since 2020.


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