GOWERTON: Lorry roof peeled open as notorious Trafle Mill bridge claims another victim

The Victoria Road railway bridge, named Network Rail's most struck in Wales, caught a flooring firm's lorry at midday on Friday, halting trains between Swansea and Carmarthen.

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PRODUCT RECALL: Asda and Morrisons pasta salads pulled over listeria fears

Three pasta products with use-by dates this weekend are being recalled from stores including Asda and Morrisons, with shoppers told not to eat them and to return them for a…

THE RAPTURE: How Port Talbot became ‘Porth Hen’, the seaside town at the heart of BBC One’s thriller

The psychological thriller starring Ruth Madeley, Iwan Rheon and Ruth Jones reaches its finale on Sunday night, with Margam's ruins, Aberavon Beach and Port Talbot town centre all over the…

SOLAR ECLIPSE: How to watch Wednesday’s 90% eclipse from Swansea Bay

Nine in ten parts of the sun will vanish behind the moon on Wednesday evening, the deepest eclipse seen from Wales since 1999. Here's when it happens, why Gower and…

MICHAEL SHEEN: Toxic waste investigation Buried finally gets its air date

The Port Talbot star's two-part series on the "forever chemicals" allegedly dumped near Welsh farms and homes airs on Monday 17 August, eight years after the whistleblower who inspired it…

BLACKPILL LIDO: Pool shut for third time this summer, now over water quality

The free seafront pool that took until mid-July to open at all has closed again in the middle of the school holidays, with the council saying water testing showed "the…

SWANSEA: ‘A memory I can keep when so many others were taken away’: the moment baby Olive first heard music

Kirsten's fifth pregnancy brought the loss of one twin at 18 weeks, a dash to Bristol at 24, and surgery on tiny Olive at two and a half weeks old.…

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PORTHCAWL: Son jailed for hiding mother’s body in freezer and claiming £78,000 of her benefits

Christopher Phillips kept Sylvia Phillips in a chest freezer at their home for almost three years after she died, telling her GP and then police she had moved to London.

RANEEM’S LAW: Domestic abuse specialist to sit inside Dyfed-Powys 999 control room from August

Dyfed-Powys Police is one of twelve forces in the second wave of the Home Office scheme named after Raneem Oudeh,…

PORT TALBOT: ‘Cowardly’ trio sentenced over violent robbery that left man in hospital

Two 19-year-olds have been locked up and a teenage boy given a referral order over a November attack in which…

CELTIC SEA: New Welsh Government approves its first offshore wind farm

Section 36 consent has been granted for Cierco Energy's Llŷr wind farm off the Pembrokeshire coast, a test and demonstration project the Welsh Government says will create around 2,000 jobs…

LLANDEILO: Five £3m business units open to tenants at Beechwood

The Welsh Government says the units answer a workspace shortage the community itself identified, with one of the larger ones…

LLANELLI: ‘No threat to Parc Howard’, insists deputy council leader

Cllr Hazel Evans has hit back at a Llanelli Labour councillor's petition on the 'unloved' condition of Parc Howard's grounds,…

EASYJET: What the £5.7bn US takeover means if you fly from Bristol

The airline with 20 aircraft based at Bristol Airport, the nearest easyJet base to south Wales, has agreed a takeover by US investment firm Apollo, with a pledge of no…

BETFRED: The dozen south west Wales betting shops waiting to learn their fate

The bookmaker is closing 132 shops with more than 600 jobs going, but hasn't said which, leaving branches from Morriston…

ARGOS SOLD: The eight south west Wales stores caught up in the £120m deal

Sainsbury's has agreed to sell Argos to a new company set up by three retail veterans, a decade after buying…

ALEX JONES: Ammanford star leads The One Show’s 20th birthday party

The Carmarthenshire presenter has fronted the BBC's teatime flagship for 16 of its 20 years, and will lead a week of anniversary specials ending with an extended show on Friday…

SWANSEA: The horror collection written after work, in bed, with a cup of tea

A. Sjoberg has published her debut collection in paperback, hardback, Kindle and audiobook inside four months, all of it around…

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…

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