8 h. ago Port Talbot moves towards arc furnace future with groundbreaking ceremony

Ministers and Tata chiefs will mark the beginning of construction of the new electric arc furnace with a groundbreaking ceremony.

Events

10 h. ago New era begins at Port Talbot steelworks as work starts on electric arc furnace

Replacing the two traditional blast furnaces in Port Talbot meant around 2,800 jobs will eventually be lost

Politics

7 d. ago Man opens his front door to find two children whose dad was lying bleeding in the street

He came to the aid of a bleeding dad and used a new emergency medical kit which are publicly accessible in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot

Politics

8 d. ago Everyone was quiet and we knew from that moment nothing was going to be the same

Jason Bailey was there as Tata shut down its final blast furnace in Port Talbot and faced starting life again

Politics

1 week ago Debacle in the desert: Will the Athetics’ $1.75bn stadium on the Vegas Strip ever be built?

It’s been over two years since the A’s were awarded public funding for their new ballpark. But despite last month’s “groundbreaking”, its completion is anything but certainIt had just turned 8am on a crystal clear, late June Monday morning, but it was already 85F (29F). Despite the tolerable heat (for the desert), a giant air conditioned tent had been erected on the former site of the Tropicana, the famed hotel which was demolished in a controlled implosion last October. Athletics owner John Fisher, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and a gaggle of politicians had all gathered on the compact, nine-acre site for a ceremony over two years in the making: the groundbreaking for the new A’s stadium on the Strip, coming your way in 2028.On the surface, it was your run-of-the-mill pomp and circumstance: a series of uneven speeches mixed in with a few kids gushing over how much they can’t wait to have the former Oakland and current A’s in Las Vegas. But if you had been followin...

Politics

1 week ago Debacle in the desert: will the Athletics’ $1.75bn stadium on the Vegas Strip ever be built?

It’s been over two years since the A’s were awarded public funding for their new ballpark. But despite last month’s “groundbreaking”, its completion is anything but certainIt had just turned 8am on a crystal clear, late June Monday morning, but it was already 85F (29F). Despite the tolerable heat (for the desert), a giant air conditioned tent had been erected on the former site of the Tropicana, the famed hotel which was demolished in a controlled implosion last October. Athletics owner John Fisher, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and a gaggle of politicians had all gathered on the compact, nine-acre site for a ceremony over two years in the making: the groundbreaking for the new A’s stadium on the Strip, coming your way in 2028.On the surface, it was your run-of-the-mill pomp and circumstance: a series of uneven speeches mixed in with a few kids gushing over how much they can’t wait to have the former Oakland and current A’s in Las Vegas. But if you had been followin...

Politics

2 w. ago Reynolds: Port Talbot plant does not meet US rules to get steel tariff exemption

Negotiations are ongoing to secure the outstanding tariff agreements.

Economics

3 w. ago Energy costs to be cut for businesses in Wales in new industrial strategy

The electric arc steel furnace being built at Port Talbot steelworks is one of the businesses that will be benefit

Economics

3 w. ago Offshore floating wind farms to power millions of homes, minister says

Jo Stevens has said plans for floating offshore wind farms in Wales and the South West will create 5,300 jobs and power four million homes.

Politics

3 w. ago Huge Welsh floating windfarm with turbines as tall as London's The Shard takes massive step forward

The project is one of two in the Celtic Sea and is expected to create thousands of jobs in Port Talbot and Bristol where the giant turbines are hoped to be made

Events

3 w. ago Thousands of steel jobs secured with £500m Scunthorpe deal despite huge losses in Port Talbot

The UK Government said the announcement 'truly transforms the outlook' of steelmaking in the UK, but thousands of jobs have been lost in Port Talbot with the closure of its blast furnaces

Economics

4 w. ago British politics is in a loop and it's Farage's vision that's stuck on repeat | John Harris

Unlike Keir Starmer and his cabinet, Reform UK’s leader actually understands and exploits the rules of engagement in our digital ageAs so often happens, what Nigel Farage said on a recent visit to south Wales deserved endless pejoratives. It was ludicrous, condescending, half-baked, opportunistic and plain stupid. Even he didn’t seem to know exactly what he wanted. At a Reform UK press conference in Port Talbot, he seemed to make the case for reopening the town’s steel-making blast furnaces, before admitting that “it might be easier to build a new one”, though he also acknowledged that it would “cost in the low billions” to do so. But he had even more dizzying visions of reopened Welsh mines. “If you offer people well-paying jobs many will take them,” said Farage, “even though you have to accept that mining is dangerous.”The climate crisis, predictably enough, was not worth considering. He also did not offer any opinions about coal-related issues such as slag heaps, land slips, rive...

Politics