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SWANSEA: Rain gardens spreading through Sandfields streets as second phase of flood-busting scheme takes root
New rain gardens are being installed at Phillips Parade and Rodney Street in Swansea's Sandfields area — the latest phase of a scheme that has already transformed streets around St Helen's Prim...
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HALIFAX: After 173 years, one of Britain’s most famous bank names is being killed off — and its branches in Swansea and Neath are already on borrowed time
Lloyds Banking Group is set to axe the Halifax brand this summer, migrating millions of customers to Lloyds. It comes as the group has already shut branches across south-west Wales — and the closures are still coming. The post HALIFAX: After 173 years, one of Britain’s most famous bank names is ...
YSTALYFERA: Voice heard in 150 million homes worldwide — Swansea Valley actor wins Best Male Performance at major UK voice acting awards
Phil Rowe, from Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley, has won the Best Male Performance in Audio Drama award at this year's One Voice Awards — going one better than last year, when the same ceremony saw him pick up three nominations across three different categories. The post YSTALYFERA: Voice heard i...
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Man who kept ninja sword, air rifle and knuckle duster in ex-partner’s Abergwynfi home — and sparked Valentine’s Day major incident — jailed for five and a half years
Maximin Carter, 51, has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison after a weapons haul hidden in his ex-partner's home on Commercial Street triggered one of the most dramatic incidents the Afan Valley village has seen — with residents evacuated in the early hours and a bomb disposal robot ...
Drivers to get reprieve as Rachel Reeves set to scrap planned 5p fuel duty rise — as pump prices soar in wake of Iran war
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce this Thursday that she is scrapping plans to raise fuel duty by 5p a litre — news that will be welcomed across south-west Wales, where soaring petrol and energy costs have been hammering households since the outbreak of the Iran conflict in February...
SWANSEA: TV pottery stars Kaz and Angharad to cut the ribbon at new volunteer-run studio opening this Saturday
Two contestants from this year's Great Pottery Throw Down will officially open Swansea's brand new community pottery studio this Saturday - a not-for-profit space built by four friends who met at an adult learning class and couldn't find anywhere affordable to carry on. The post SWANSEA: TV pottery ...
SWANSEA: Protesters to gather outside Crown Court this morning in defence of the 800-year-old right to trial by jury
Swansea residents will join demonstrators outside crown courts across England and Wales today as part of a national day of action against government plans to remove the right to jury trial for thousands of criminal cases. The post SWANSEA: Protesters to gather outside Crown Court this morning in def...
Dad with 12-week-old baby avoids prison after his dark secret is discovered
Ben Thomas was caught after arousing the suspicion of undercover police patrolling in an unmarked car
Final days of murderer whose life descended into hurling urine at jail staff
Prison hooch, addiction and dirty protests defined the sordid end to Emmett Morrison's life
GOWER: Only four locals took part last year — can Swansea’s own backyard event tempt more to take the plunge this June?
The Gritty Rascals Swimrun Gower returns on 20 June — a one-day challenge that takes athletes from Rhossili Bay all the way along the Gower coastline to Mumbles, running cliff tops and swimming bays. Last year, just four people from the local area entered. The post GOWER: Only four locals took par...
SWANSEA: Spirit of the Fringe award winner Ian Stone comes to Swansea Grand Theatre this Thursday with his search for life’s missing wow
Ian Stone — Edinburgh Festival favourite, Arsenal obsessive and winner of the Spirit of the Fringe award — brings his show Looking for the Wow to Swansea Grand Theatre on 22 May. The post SWANSEA: Spirit of the Fringe award winner Ian Stone comes to Swansea Grand Theatre this Thursday with his s...
SWANSEA: ‘10km for every year we’ve been without her’ — Llansamlet woman to run 100km from London to Brighton in memory of eight-year-old friend Lexi
Tallulah Chalstrey was 14 when she lost her childhood friend Lexi May Hopkin to a brain tumour. This Saturday, she sets off on her toughest challenge yet — 100km from London to Brighton — to mark ten years since Lexi died. The post SWANSEA: ‘10km for every year we’ve been without her’ — ...
Man offered a motorbike and £50 a day to commit vile crime
A judge told the defendants that each had played their part in supplying drugs to people in the community, either motivated by greed or by a desire to fund their own habit
She ran away with the circus, swam with sharks and became the ‘Mother of Welsh Burlesque’ — and now her life story is coming to Swansea Grand Theatre
Stephanie Gawne has spent decades as a glamorous assistant, showgirl and burlesque pioneer. Now she’s putting it all on stage in a frank, funny and feathered autobiographical musical that hits Swansea this June. The post She ran away with the circus, swam with sharks a...
Missing girl, 13, last seen near Swansea swimming pool
Police have released a description of Ffion in the hopes of locating her
Man took jobs overseas just to get away from his neighbour
The victim said his 70-year-old neighbour Michael Matthews had caused him "nothing but problems"
An advert at a Swansea City game saved my life
The stories of men diagnosed with prostate cancer have been shared as calls have been made for men to be routinely tested
Latest death notices across Wales as families remember loved ones
Our thoughts are with those who have lost a loved one
Son threatened to put gun in dad's mouth and torture him
Jamie Lewis has previously been jailed for threatening to burn his dad's house down and decapitate his dog
PEMBROKESHIRE: Wales vs Westminster showdown looms over Trump’s ‘space wars’ radar — as anti-DARC campaign asks new Plaid government to block it
The Senedd election has handed anti-DARC campaigners what they’ve been waiting for — a Welsh Government with a party policy of opposing the US military’s plan to build 27 radar dishes near Britain’s only coastal national park. Now they’re demanding it act. And fast. The post PE...