Neath and Port Talbot County, Wales News

Ben Sweet works in the depths and darkness of the London Dungeon is "much better than working in the real world". While most of us are stuck behind desks in nine to five jobs at the office, Ben Sweet works in the depths and darkness of the London Dungeon.

Crag features The large quarry located above neath abbey. There is a large boulder field below quarry and has 4 3star boulders fr font 6a to 7c.

A CARMEL man received a 12-month conditional discharge and was ordered to pay A 85 costs after pleading guilty to cannabis possession when he appeared before Llanelli magistrates.

Talking place across two days at venues around the city centre it features the current cream of the Welsh music crop.

The UK has been holding out for a Eurovision hero for a long time and this year hopes rest on Wales' Bonnie Tyler with her song Believe in Me.

The Morriston Orpheus Choir will be performing at the attraction, with soprano Iona Jones, a graduate of London's Guildhall School of Music, who is also a founder member and current tutor of the National Youth Choir of Wales.

DSW executive director Jon Morgan said he welcomed the rise in figures, which had been a trend for the past 10 years.

A COUPLE who were assaulted in the street in a homophobic attack have spoken of the lasting effects of the attack.

MERGING with another authority could be the future for a Valleys education department which has "systemic weaknesses," a minister said.

She was presented with the Essential Skills for Life Award, part of the annual Inspire! Adult Learning Awards held to mark the start of Adult Learners' Week, which kicks off tomorrow.

Elise Evans from Glynneath, who had a taster of stardom on BBC's The Voice, has big plans to get her own music heard and hopes to become a professional songwriter.

The application - for a new outlet roughly the same size as the town's Tesco store - has been submitted by local c o n t r a c t o r s TRJ and is earmarked for their Foundry Road site.

Officially, they were men from Swansea and surrounding towns including Neath and Port Talbot who made up the 14th , The Welsh Regiment, part of the Welsh 38th Division during World War I. And the 1,200-strong "Swansea Pals" battalion found itself in one of the deadliest battles of the war, Mametz Wood, in which almost 100 of them were killed and ... (more)

Public Health Wales warn against complacency as figures in measles epidemic area and in Gwent, where there are increasing concerns about the disease, rise.

The multi-million pound boulevard scheme at the main eastern entrance to Swansea has provoked some expected gripes and groans over traffic queues while the work is done.

A 23-year-old woman made a second preliminary court appearance today charged with murdering a man who was stabbed in Swansea at the weekend.

Arriva Trains Wales has made changes to its timetable thanks to the re-doubling of the track between Swansea and Llanelli.

ASKING Scott Gibbs what it takes to stand tall in a Lions Test series is akin to quizzing Tiger Woods about the requirements for triumphing in a golf major, or inviting Roger Federer to hold court on how to win a tennis Grand Slam title.

Volunteer bat detectors are being called on to take to the streets and lanes across the city and surrounding area in search of information on how bat numbers are bearing up here.

AMMANFORD mayor-elect Irena Hopkins has urged her colleagues to fight to ensure the former Margaret Street courthouse does not suffer the same fate as the town's other iconic buildings.