Articles...
Oct 11 2007
A 13-YEAR-OLD Neath boy is starting a two-year sentence after being found guilty of rape....
Oct 11 2007
A FLAGSHIP event in the Welsh tourism calendar has seen “Tourism Oscars” awarded to enterprises judged to be the best in Wales....
Oct 11 2007
PLANS to bring in free Christmas parking in Neath and Port Talbot will go before councillors next week....
Oct 11 2007
A NEATH hairdresser is getting in the fast lane at the Marie Curie Ladies Driving Challenge....
Oct 11 2007
A ROW over work to re-pave the square in the centre of Neath for the third time has re-ignited after several shoppers fell there....
Oct 11 2007
TONNA Male Voice Choir will be performing at Neath Cricket Club on Saturday, October 20, in a concert to raise funds for the Samaritans....
Oct 11 2007
TWO local male voice choirs will be working in harmony this month to raise funds for charity....
Oct 11 2007
THE SON of civil rights campaigner Paul Robeson has come to the borough to promote race equality....
Oct 11 2007
A CHESS club in Neath has been making all the right moves....
Oct 11 2007
STAFF at Neath and Port Talbot Council could be ditching their cars in favour of buses – as part of a new drive by the authority....
Oct 11 2007
THE parents of Jonathan Jones, who died earlier this year from a suspected epilepsy attack, have presented a cheque for £250 to the Neath Knights judo club....
Oct 11 2007
A NEATH man who butted a bus driver has received a suspended prison sentence and been ordered to compensate his victim....
Oct 11 2007
Scores of residents in Neath and Port Talbot have been left disappointed with second-hand cars....
Oct 11 2007
STUDENTS from a Neath school were taken prisoner, as part of an initiative to deter young people from crime....
Oct 11 2007
A WELSH photographer involved in a unique celebrity project revealed some secrets of his success to members of a busy Port Talbot group....
Oct 11 2007
THE Skewen community came together last week to celebrate the opening of a new convenience store in New Road....
Oct 11 2007
TRADING Standards officers in Neath Port Talbot seized more than £20,000 worth of counterfeit goods after a lunchtime look at an internet auction site tipped them off to a local rogue trader....
Oct 11 2007
BOOKWORMS in Neath and Port Talbot will have the chance to meet two authors as part of the first-ever Libraries Festival Wales....
Oct 11 2007
SOME of the most spectacular waterfalls in Neath Port Talbot are being highlighted in a glossy new brochure....
Oct 11 2007
The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) is today launching the UK’s largest ever consultation with deaf nine to 18-year-olds to find out what we can do to better support them and what new services they would like us to develop....
Oct 11 2007
ONE week into my project, and it is proving to be a life-changing experience....
Oct 11 2007
The recent thunderstorm brought unexpected visitors in the shape of a UFO. Mrs Betty Jones of Bryn Nedd, Cimla said she saw a craft hovering over a blacked-out Neath at 5.30am....
Oct 11 2007
A DULAIS Valley housewife is hoping to convert more people to the “buy local” cause, by living on nothing but locally-sourced food for 12 weeks....
Oct 11 2007
I WRITE in response to Mr Palmer’s letters in the Guardian September 27/October 4 which take issue with my letters on the subject of the Prenergy power station....
Oct 11 2007
CONGRATULATIONS to Sainsbury’s on their considerate stance in permitting their Muslim staff to refuse to handle or sell alcoholic beverages....
Oct 11 2007
FIGURES released last week by the National Association of Headteachers Cymru have shown that Labour-led Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council is one of only eight of the 22 local authorities in Wales to spend all of the money from the Assembly Government for education, on education....
Oct 11 2007
SMALL businesses in Neath are uniting in a battle against competition from big supermarket chains and are urging shoppers to get behind them....
Oct 11 2007
IN response to last week’s report (Guardian, October 4) about motorists driving the wrong way up the M4, I wholeheartedly agree that some drivers need to go back to their highway codes....
Oct 11 2007
BETHAN JENKINS, Assembly Member for South Wales West, has added her voice to the chorus of protest concerning the gas pressure reduction station in Cilfrew....
Oct 11 2007
A TONMAWR man has spent months training for the Cardiff half marathon this Sunday (October 14)....
Oct 11 2007
MINDLESS vandalism has been the major factor leading to the closure of a popular attraction for disabled people....
Oct 11 2007
AFTER experiencing the pain of tinnitus for himself, Peter Hain has pledged to help suffers in Neath....
Oct 11 2007
THE Governor’s Association, set up in 1997 to support the work of school governors during a period of great change in education, is marking its 10th anniversary....
Oct 11 2007
THE bid to open up a new footpath/cycleway from Aberavon seafront to Afan Forest Park is well under way....
Oct 11 2007
RESIDENTS in Neath and Port talbot are getting better than average services from the local authority, according to a new report....
Oct 11 2007
POTENTIAL construction workers in Neath and Port Talbot are being encouraged to join the growing industry....
Oct 11 2007
A DEPRIVED Dulais Valley community council claims its community is missing out on thousands of pounds of funds in favour of Neath town centre....
Oct 11 2007
Wednesday, October 10: Reception for Sandfields Primary School on winning the Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative, Mayor's Parlour, Port Talbot; NPT Governors’ 10th Anniversary, The Orangery, Margam Park....
Oct 11 2007
THE assailant in a violent attack is still on the loose – a broken CCTV camera failed to capture the assault....
Oct 11 2007
AN apprentice from Glynneath has been inducted into the Welsh Livery Guild....
Oct 11 2007
TONNA residents now have the chance to have a bigger input into how their area is policed....
Oct 11 2007
AN inquest is to be held into the death of a Briton Ferry woman who underwent pioneering cancer treatment, when she may not have had the disease....
Oct 11 2007
AN accident on the Heads of the Valleys road near Resolven was caused by a driver who had been using cocaine, a court has heard....
Oct 11 2007
A NEATH man threatened his mother and her friend with a kitchen knife in a drunken argument, a court has heard....
Oct 11 2007
NEATH Athletic’s promising start to the season continued with a 6-0 Welsh Cup thrashing of Division Two side Llanwern, writes ANDREW PUGH....
Oct 11 2007
Thursday: Dry with sunny spells. 17c/63f in Seven Sisters. Light westerly....
Oct 11 2007
THE family of a former Guardian correspondent is taking part in a charity challenge in her memory this weekend....
Oct 11 2007
A BRITON Ferry man has been jailed for two years for serious offences involving heroin....
Oct 11 2007
NEATH MP Peter Hain believes the Prime Minister’s party conference speech has wide-ranging implications for his constituency....
Oct 11 2007
PEOPLE are being thanked for their huge response to a charity collection....
Oct 11 2007
A WOMAN accused of the manslaughter of a Neath teenager has been committed to Swansea Crown Court....
Oct 11 2007
THE family of a Tonna cancer patient, who is appealing to the Local Health Board for the right to have the life-prolonging wonder drug Sutent, claim a senior consultant has failed to provide vital information to prove his case....
Oct 11 2007
MORE people are completing Duke of Edinburgh awards in Neath Port Talbot than in any other Welsh authority....
Oct 11 2007
MOVIE star Michael Sheen may have landed his latest premiere role....
Oct 11 2007
TWO pupils from Neath and Port Talbot have scooped a top national award for writing about race issues....
Oct 11 2007
STUDENTS from Neath and Port Talbot who have set up their own business are being given the chance to clinch a new entrepreneur’s award of £20,000....
Oct 11 2007
A NEATH man who stole from a tools firm may have done so as a result of his drug and alcohol addiction, a court was told....
Oct 11 2007
THE mother of a Briton Ferry schoolgirl has called for more security checks in schools, after her daughter was threatened with a ball-bearing gun by a fellow pupil....
Oct 11 2007
A NEATH primary school has hit back at claims it pandered to political correctness by changing the name of its Halloween disco....
Oct 11 2007
NEATH MP Peter Hain has pledged to tackle the looming pensions crisis....
