South Wales Evening Post
WRU BOSS STEPS DOWN
MARIANNE Økland will take over from the departing Malcolm Wall as independent chair of Welsh rugby’s Professional Rugby Board (PRB) on an interim basis. Malcolm Wall’s three-year term at the helm, which was extended by one year at the request of PRB...
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Go-ahead for final part of 248-home scheme
THE final phase of a major housing development in Swansea has been given the go-ahead. The third phase of Hendrefoilan Park estate, Sketty, will consist of 92 two-, three- and four-bedroom homes, as well as a play area. The completed first phase was...
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MAN HELD AFTER FIREARM REPORT
A MAN has been arrested after police were called to reports of a man with a firearm on a residential street in Swansea. At around midday on Tuesday officers from South Wales Police were called to Kenilworth Place, West Cross, where they arrested a...
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SIX ON TRIAL OVER SUPPLY OF ‘BOGUS MEDICAL FORMS’
SIX people have gone on trial accused of being involved in a fraudulent business which submitted bogus medical forms for people seeking bus, taxi and lorry licences from the DVLA. It is alleged that the defendants and the firm they worked for –...
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ZIPLINE SCHEMESCHEMES FUNDING WARNING
OPPOSITION councillors in Swansea launched a barrage of criticism at the support being offered to the company building an adventure park in the city. Council leader Rob Stewart hit back, saying if they wanted to collapse the project and harm Swansea’s...
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RIVAL PLAN WOULD SEE WALES KEEP 4 REGIONS
A LEADING Welsh business figure has emerged as a figurehead to plot an alternative future for Welsh rugby that could see the number of regions remain that at four. The Welsh Rugby Union are currently facing an Extraordinary General Meeting that could...
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MAN STUCK IN DUBAI FEELING ‘TOTALLY ABANDONED’
A WELSHMAN has told how he feels “totally abandoned” after finding himself stranded in Dubai amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Ian Reynolds is now worried he will run out of his diabetes medication and not be able to afford many more...
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DRUG DEALER SKIPPED BAIL – TO GO ON A PILGRIMAGE
A CANNABIS dealer skipped bail to attend the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, a court has heard. Jakir Ali had come to the attention of police after officers discovered the fast food restaurant manager was in contact with a member of an organised...
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‘WELSH RUGBY IS IN A PERILOUS STATE’
SENEDD members have told Welsh Rugby Union chair Richard Collierkeywood he has “lost the argument” over controversial plans to cut Wales’ professional clubs to three, branding the failure to produce a viable alternative a “dereliction of...
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‘DEPLORABLE’ VIDEO SHOWS TEEN BEING PUNCHED & HUMILIATED
DISTRESSING videos showing a boy being bullied and punched in Swansea have circulated online. Police are investigating the Snapchat clips, showing two separate incidents – each show a boy being targeted by tracksuit-clad teenagers. In one incident a...
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NEW CHAIRMAN OF WRU ‘COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING’
OSPREYS head coach Mark Jones believes an extraordinary general meeting of the Welsh Rugby Union could pave the way for a change in leadership – and potentially a new plan for the professional game. The Central Glamorgan Rugby Union has formally...
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Firm being liquidated owing creditors millions
SWANSEA medtech firm Calon Cardio-technology is being liquidated, owing creditors - which include the Development Bank of Wales and Swansea Council more than £5m. Founders of the Swansea University spin-out company, which had developed an implantable...
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Y11’S DEAL ‘MAY NOT SPELL THE END FOR OSPREYS’
WELSH Rugby Union chair Richard Collier-keywood claims Y11’s deal to buy Cardiff doesn’t necessarily mean the Ospreys will be killed off and insists an EGM ploy to oust him would be a backwards step. Collier-keywood was up in front of the Senedd...
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MURDERED BY STEPDAD IN A FIT OF RAGE
A MAN has been jailed for at least 19 years after shaking his baby stepson to death in a fit of rage. Thomas Morgan, 29, murdered five-month-old Jensen-lee Dougal at the family home in Swansea when he became angry following an argument with his...
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FLAGSHIP STORE TO CLOSE IN BLOW TO CITY CENTRE
SWANSEA is set to lose one of its flagship shops after M&S confirmed it will shut down its city-centre store later this year. The store, located in Oxford Street, the heart of the city centre, has been one of the main draws for shoppers in Swansea for...
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MAN SET ROOM ON FIRE OVER ASYLUM CLAIM
AN ASYLUM seeker tried to burn down the house he was living in because he was annoyed that his application to stay in the UK had been rejected. Nurhak Sayak, 27, set his Swansea bedroom on fire despite not knowing if other people were in the house at...
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WRU CHIEFS TO FACE VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE
THE Welsh Rugby Union is to face a seismic extraordinary general meeting (EGM), with a vote of no confidence in chair Richard Collier-keywood set to be held. Yesterday, it was confirmed that the Central Glamorgan Rugby Union, which represents clubs in...
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EMPTY SEATS WARNING AS LONG AS AXE HANGS OVER OSPREYS
THE WRU has been told it runs the risk of having thousands of empty seats at every Welsh home game unless it rethinks its plans to axe a region. Swansea Council leader Rob Stewart says the fact more than 16,000 tickets were unsold for Wales’s game...
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POLICE TOLD OF ADVENTURE PARK THREATS
THE leader of Swansea Council said some people who oppose the new adventure park getting under way on Kilvey Hill “have overstepped the mark” in comments made on social media, and have been referred to police. Councillor Rob Stewart alleged comments...
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HIGH COURT MOVE IN RUGBY’S CIVIL WAR
SWANSEA Council has applied for a High Court injunction to halt the proposed deal between the Welsh Rugby Union and Y11 to buy Cardiff Rugby. The WRU have chosen Ospreys owners Y11 as their preferred bidder for Cardiff Rugby and have granted them a...
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APPEAL TO WATCHDOG IN BID TO SAVE OSPREYS
WELSH rugby chiefs are seeking shortterm fixes rather than long-term solutions – so says the man in charge of the last Welsh professional club to be axed. Lynn Howells was the director of rugby at Celtic Warriors when the decision was taken to...
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WORKERS SUE FAILED ENERGY FIRM AFTER ITS COLLAPSE
FORMER employees of a failed energy business have launched legal action after its collapse led to nearly 300 redundancies. Swansea-based Consumer Energy Solutions (CES) made massive profits before its controversial entry into administration. The...
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BUILDER’S FAKE GAS FITTER PUT FAMILY IN DANGER
A FAMILY from South Wales with a 10-month-old baby were living in a home described in court as “potentially lethal” after botched gas work. Cowboy builder Lee Slocombe brought in a fake gas engineer to carry out work at multiple properties across the...
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STEPDAD ACCUSED OF BABY MURDER ‘COMPLETELY PANICKED’
A MAN accused of murdering his partner’s five-month-old baby has told his trial he “completely panicked”. Jensen-lee Dougal suffered catastrophic brain injuries in an incident in the family home in the Swansea Valley in March 2024. The infant was...
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OPPOSITION TO OSPREYS MERGER SUGGESTION
OSPREYS supporters spoke of their frustration and anger at the potential demise of their club as a regional rugby team at a packed Brangwyn Hall in Swansea. Hundreds of people attended a public meeting on Wednesday night hosted by Swansea Council...
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‘NO FUTURE’ FOR THE OSPREYS
SWANSEA Council has commenced early stage legal action against the WRU and Y11 Sport and Media as it published bombshell minutes of a meeting where it was confirmed the Ospreys will cease to be a professional rugby region after next season. The...
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WEBB BLASTS RUGBY ‘SHAMBLES’
FORMER Wales and Ospreys scrum-half Rhys Webb has offered a blistering criticism of the long-term decisions that have moved his former club to the brink of extinction. The British and Irish Lions halfback has penned a lengthy post on Ruck, in which he...
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PLAYER ‘HAD BIGGEST IMPACT ON THOSE AROUND HIM’
WELSH football is in mourning following the tragic death of Afan Lido FC player Ioan Evans at the age of 25. The Port Talbot-based JD Cymru South club confirmed the heartbreaking news, saying they were “devastated” by his passing and struggling to...
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ACCIDENT LED TO BRAIN CANCER FIND
LAST summer, Lauren Macpherson and her partner went for a long weekend getaway to London. It was a time to celebrate after a busy year of exams and home renovations. But on their way home to Swansea a bizarre accident turned their lives upside down....
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Patients sleeping on chairs due to lack of beds at hospital
A MAJOR hospital is in a state of “crisis” with patients being forced to sleep for hours in chairs because wards are too full, a petition signed by more than 1,300 people has claimed. Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen is the biggest hospital managed by...
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With a line-up this good, it would be Madness to miss it
THE UK’S largest family festival, In It Together, has announced the daily line-up for its fifth anniversary celebrations at Margam Park this May. Headliners Madness, Aitch and Snow Patrol will be performing alongside more than 200 other artists...
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OSPREYS LEGENDS SPEAK OUT IN BATTLE FOR CLUB
GROUP OF FORMER PLAYERS OFFER TO MEET WITH WRU OFFICIALS AMID UNCERTAINTY OVER CLUB’S FUTURE
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FANS ‘WILL WALK AWAY FROM WELSH RUGBY’
OSPREYS fans staged a vocal protest as they made their feelings towards the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and a potential buy-out of Cardiff Rugby, which could spell disaster for their own region, well and truly known. During the United Rugby Championship...
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STITCH-UP!
A WELSH MP claims the Welsh Rugby Union is trying to “stitch up” the Ospreys as he called for a change in leadership at the top of the governing body. Earlier this week, the WRU chose Ospreys’ owners Y11 as their preferred bidders to buy Cardiff. The...
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WRU TOLD TO ‘THINK AGAIN’ ON OSPREYS
SWANSEA Council has hit out at the Welsh Rugby Union’s plans to cull a professional team, saying bosses have indicated to them there is no viable future for the Ospreys. In an explosive statement released following a meeting between council leader Rob...
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‘PAY UP OR GO TO JAIL’ THREAT TO COVID LOAN FRAUDSTER
THE owner of mobile phone shops who fraudulently pocketed £150,000 in loans designed to help businesses hit by the Covid pandemic has been ordered to pay back his ill-gotten gains. Zahid Afzal initially made legitimate applications for “Bounce Bank”...
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MOTHER & SON IN STREET BRAWL
A MOTHER and son became involved in a heated and violent brawl in the street with neighbours, a court has heard. A judge described the disturbance involving Bethan and Adam Jones as “shameful” and said he felt sorry for the “decent people going about...
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MAN FLED COUNTRY AFTER ‘BLEACH ATTACK‘
THE boss of a Welsh wellness retreat has pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm after a guest’s face was burned by a corrosive substance. Police launched an international manhunt for Dean Mazye after he fled abroad following the incident at...
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HUNDREDS OF JOBS LOST AS FIRM CEASES TRADING
HUNDREDS of jobs have been lost at a major Welsh employer as it announced it has entered administration. Almost 300 staff at Consumer Energy Solutions, which has sites in Swansea and Rhondda Cynon Taf, have lost their jobs after City Energy Group,...
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OFF THE TRACKS, ON THE BUSES!
BUSES will replace trains for 11 days as refurbishment works are carried out at a viaduct near Swansea.com Stadium, it has been announced. Network Rail has apologised for any inconvenience the works will cause. It says the works, to assist with track...
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Weather warning for snow and rain
AN AMBER weather warning for snow – meaning ‘danger to life’ – has been issued across large parts of Wales from later today as Storm Goretti sweeps across the UK. The Met Office said rain associated with the storm will turn to snow this evening,...
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‘BRING YOUR LOVED ONES HOME FROM HOSPITAL’
SWANSEA Bay University Health Board has declared a Business Continuity Incident (BCI) - the highest level of operational escalation in NHS Wales - as services face exceptional pressure due to a critical shortage of available beds. A Business...
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PARTNER LEFT ON CRUTCHES BY ATTACKER
IT WAS once the largest and most popular theme park in Wales, but today its remains sit quietly in a rural part of West Wales with the hustle and bustle of generations of thrill-seeking visitors now a distant memory. Oakwood Theme Park announced in...
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MAN POURED PETROL OVER HOME AND TRIED TO IGNITE IT
A MAN poured petrol over the family home, garden and outdoor hot tub and tried to ignite it with a cigarette lighter, a court has heard. Lee Bromfield then headbutted his former partner after she went outside to try to calm him down, leaving her with...
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17-YEAR-OLD SERIOUSLY HURT IN CITY DISORDER
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy from Clase in Swansea was taken to hospital on New Year’s Eve with injuries described as “very serious”. South Wales Police has said the teenager’s family is being supported by specialist officers. Four other teenagers have been...
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COUNCIL WORKER JAILED AFTER RACIST TIRADE
A COUNCIL worker subjected people in a shop to a tirade of vile racist abuse and told them to “go home” and “get back on the boats”. Kurtis Ball continued to use offensive and racist language even after being arrested and then went on to threaten and...
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PAIR LEAVE MAN ON ROAD AFTER BRUTAL ATTACK
A COUPLE carried a brutal attack on a man in the street by repeatedly punching and kicking him to the head and stamping on his groin. Olivia Lewis and her then-partner Patrick Mcginn then simply walked away leaving their victim on the ground. The pair...
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ATM QUEUE LED POLICE TO DRUG DEALERS
A QUEUE of people using a cash machine led police to drug dealers, a court has heard. Eagle-eyed police officers recognised the people waiting to get money from the machine as known drug users, and following them led police to a car being used by...
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DRUG DEALERS IN BALACLAVAS THOUGHT THEY WERE ‘PROPER LITTLE GANGSTERS’
FOUR young men who thought they were “proper little gangsters” with balaclavas and a getaway car were arrested an hour after police started hunting for them, a court has heard. Harvey Young, Maddox Vaughan, Ryan Naaif and Harrison Davies were running...
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SWANS UNVEIL NEW US CELEBRITY INVESTOR
SWANSEA City have confirmed Martha Stewart is the latest celebrity to invest in the club. Stewart, an American TV host and cook book author, was in attendance for the club’s win over Wrexham on Friday night, and is a close personal friend of fellow...
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CRASH SPARKS HOUSE WORRIES
A CAR has smashed into a house on a quiet street in Swansea with such force that it’s led to worries over the structural integrity of the damaged property. Police are at the scene at Cwrt y Cadno in the Birchgrove area of the city on Tuesday afternoon...
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STRANGER REPEATEDLY STABBED TEENAGER
A MAN repeatedly plunged a kitchen knife into a stranger outside a social club in an attempt to kill him, a court has heard. Kane Evans stabbed his teenage victim a total of 10 times to the chest, abdomen and arm, with the wound to the stomach...
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19 YEARS IN PRISON FOR MURDER PLOT LOVERS
A NEW sinkhole has opened up on a busy Swansea road days after another one, which closed a nearby stretch of highway for weeks, was repaired. Swansea Council closed a section of Brynymor Road last month after a sinkhole appeared. Investigations and...
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£22M MORE FOR TATA WORKERS
THE UK Government has announced that businesses and workers affected by changes at Tata Steel in Port Talbot will be able to access an extra £22 million in support. The last blast furnace at the steelworks was shut down in September, 2024, as part of...
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ARREST OVER UNSOLVED KILLING OF COUPLE
AN 86-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murders of Harry and Megan Tooze more than 30 years ago. The couple were found dead with gunshot wounds at their Ty Ar y Waun farmhouse in Llanharry on July 26, 1993. South Wales Police...
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‘RUINED’
TORRENTIAL rain flooded multiple streets across Briton Ferry yesterday as much of South Wales was hit by heavy and persistent rainfall with an amber warning for rain in place. Cars were submerged, drains have been overflowing and people have been left...
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MORGAN’S BATTLE HELPED SAVE SISTER
THE family of a little Swansea boy who died just days before his fourth birthday said the tragedy ended up helping to save his sister’s life. Morgan Ridler, from Gorseinon, died after being diagnosed with a rare and complex form of cancer. Morgan’s...
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FIRM HAD £50M READY TO INVEST IN CITY AIRPORT
COUNCIL chiefs are granting a long-term lease to the operators of Swansea Airport despite a last-minute plea from a businessman to market the site to other bidders. Businessman Michael Henry said in a written question that his company had £50 million...
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BURGLAR ‘MADE HIMSELF AT HOME’
A BURGLAR broke into a man’s house in the dead of night and “made himself at home” in the property, a court has heard. Daniel Allen smashed his way into the victim’s house while the homeowner was away and trashed the place while drinking the cans and...
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NEW PLAN FOR CITY TRANSPORT HUB
A NEW transport hub on The Strand is being looked at as part of a wider plan to guide future development in Swansea from the waterfront up to the very top of High Street. Improvements to the High Street railway station plaza, Swansea Market and Lower...
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TEENAGER WAS PLIED WITH DRINK BY RAPIST
A MAN plied a teenage girl with alcohol before raping her in his flat after promising he would call her a taxi, a court has heard. A judge told the 48-year-old defendant that his victim had been at a stage in her life when she was “entering the adult...
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COMMUNITY INSPIRED BY OLIVIA’S BRAVE BATTLE
THREE years ago, a small community came together to help a little girl fight for her life. Now, that same community has rallied once again – not for one family alone, but for the charity that has carried them through the most devastating chapter of...
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KITCHEN KNIFE ATTACKER ‘SAT ON SOFA AND LAUGHED’
A MAN plunged a kitchen knife into the chest of an 81-year-old man in a seeming revenge attack after wrongly coming to believe his victim was dating his partner, a court has heard. Peter Rees had gone to live with his girlfriend and her pensioner...
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TWO KILLED IN HORROR CRASH ON A48
TWO people were killed as a result of a horror four-car pile-up after a 90-year-old driver took a wrong turn and drove more than 450m down a busy dual carriageway in the wrong direction. The fatal crash happened on the A48 in Carmarthenshire between...
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DAD RODE MOTORBIKE LIKE ‘CLOWN’
A DAD rode his motorbike like a “clown” around Swansea for an hour and a half, weaving through traffic, undertaking cars, doing U-turns in the road, mounting the pavement and going the wrong way around roundabouts, a court has heard. Ben Norman then...
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