Five marching bands will join hundreds of from dance and drama groups to perform in the year’s Christmas parade on the evening of Sunday, November 17. Swansea Labour is delighted that The Welsh Wing Marching Band (Royal Air Force Air Cadets), the Loughor Town Band, the Bloco Vale Samba; the Swansea Silver Rhythmaires, and the […]
The Swansea Labour-controlled Council cabinet will be asked to award the contract for YGG Tan-y-lan at its meeting on Thursday, October 17. Work will be scheduled to start on the new build early in 2020 with the new school ready to open in autumn 2021. YGG Tan-y-lan is currently based at the former Graig Infant […]
A major Swansea city centre regeneration project moves forward next week when new road surfaces are to be laid. The important work, driven by the Swansea Labour-led City Council administration, is to start on October 14 and will take place at night-time as part of a £12m Kingsway scheme. Fresh Tarmac will be laid at […]
Swansea Labour are exceptionally proud that a comprehensive has become the first in the City & County to be officially recognised as a dementia-friendly school. Pupils at Pontarddulais Comprehensive and their teachers have been presented with the award by the Alzheimer’s Society. Awareness sessions and whole school assemblies have helped everyone at the school to […]
Swansea Labour has been at the forefront of a campaign to get more residents in the City and County recycling more. And now more household waste than ever is being recycled following the launch of an initiative at the start of 2019. The Labour-controlled Swansea Council introduced its ‘Keep it out’ campaign in February in […]
Swansea Vale Nature Reserve in the Labour-held Llansamlet ward has been awarded a Green Flag Award by Keep Wales Tidy. The award is the mark of a quality park or green space and SVNR is one of a record-breaking 127 community managed green spaces in Wales which have met the high standards needed to receive […]
The Labour-led Swansea Council is building even more environmentally friendly homes in the city after receiving a share of a £30 million Welsh Government grant. Twenty-six new homes are to be developed in the Clase community in the city following confirmation that the Council had secured more than £1.5 million from the WG Innovative […]
Owners of electric cars will be able to charge their vehicles in a number of council-owned car parks in Swansea from 2020. The Labour-led Swansea Council is looking to install the new electric charging infrastructure to support an increase in electric vehicles being used in the city. Car parks included in the new initiative include […]
The third Decky Memorial Touch Rugby tournament at Loughor RFC has raised £3,850.50 in the memory of former club player Richard Thomas who died in 2017 aged 29. The three tournaments and other events in Decky’s name have now raised a total of £17,772.06 (including gift aid) for cardiac patients at Morriston Hospital. Former soldier […]
An information board has been unveiled at Mayhill Washing Pond which was recently awarded a Green Flag by Keep Wales Tidy. The award is in recognition to the hard work done by volunteers – the Friends Group – in the ward to transform the historic Wishing Pond. And to mark its rich history the information […]