4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (606+ words) More than £3.3m is set to be spent on leisure centres across Neath Port Talbot, bringing new gyms, a Reformer Pilates studio and the county borough’s first padel courts. The money for Pontardawe’s replacement swimming pool, though, is still not there....

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (512+ words) Anyone flying tonight or tomorrow morning is being told to check with their airline before leaving home, after a technical failure at the UK’s air traffic control provider grounded departures across the country. Hundreds of flights were cancelled after NATS,…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (522+ words) Swansea has been named by the new Chancellor as one of the places proving Britain’s innovation formula works, alongside Oxford, Cambridge and a handful of other cities. John Healey, delivering his first major speech since becoming Chancellor in July, told…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (564+ words) Ryanair will thin its winter flights from Cardiff Airport to Dublin and Alicante, as the budget giant cuts around two million seats across Europe to reduce its exposure to sky-high fuel prices. The airline cut its passenger forecast for the…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (644+ words) The profits from the wind farms rising on Welsh hills could stay in Wales rather than flowing to outside investors, under plans for a national energy company owned by the people of Wales. The promise from ministers is cheaper, cleaner…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1013+ words) The last industrial revolution filled south Wales with works that employed thousands. The next one is arriving as vast sheds full of computers, and it wants the same ground. At Bridgend, the Ford plant that built engines until 2020 has consent…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (474+ words) A Porthcawl man who ran into the sea at night to escape arrest has been jailed for three years and eight months for sexual offences. Officers were called to Porthcawl seafront at around 9.45pm on 22 October last year, to a report…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (391+ words) A beauty salon run from a house in Three Crosses, open three days a week, has been named the best home salon in the UK. Lucy Hellyer Jones opened Lucy’s Beauty Studio on Cilonnen Road in 2016 after leaving the spa…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (954+ words) The fields on the western edge of Carmarthen, between the A40 at the Travellers Rest roundabout and the old St David’s Hospital, are getting 84 more houses. They go on a field beside the new link road the council built through that…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (698+ words) Anyone parking at Port Talbot Parkway this week will have seen it: a white steel frame, a red crane and a concrete lift shaft rising from the empty plot beside TWI’s black-and-orange technology centre at Harbourside. That is SWITCH, the…...