14 h. ago Geraint Thomas signs off stellar career with emotional home town reunion

Welshman ends 19-season racing career in CardiffRomain Grégoire secures Tour of Britain victoryUnder sombre skies, Geraint Thomas raced into Cardiff to a hometown hero’s welcome after a 19-season racing career came to an end at the final stage of the 2025 Tour of Britain.A groundbreaking career founded in south Wales ended in south Wales, with the 39-year-old Olympic gold medallist and Tour de France winner buoyed by a sea of emotion from fans, well-wishers and old friends. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Minns’s $140m great koala national park will ‘obliterate’ regional towns, Coalition claims

Labor’s koala strategy doesn’t go far enough, Coalition says, but environmentalists hail park a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ decisionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe long-awaited great koala national park in the north of New South Wales, celebrated by wildlife groups, has drawn a mixed reaction from the state’s Coalition.The opposition leader, Mark Speakman has hedged his party’s support, saying while he “supports the ambition of protecting koalas”, he was concerned about job losses and the cost of the park. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago These are some of south Wales' best burgers you need to eat right now

These offerings push the boundaries of what you thought was possible between a basic bun and a beef patty

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26 h. ago Wild running gives me freedom, but I’m always looking over my shoulder

In this abridged extract from award-winning poet and writer Natalie Holborow’s new book ‘Wild Running’, she follows a trail around the Brecon Beacons in South Wales while reflecting on women’s safety

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26 h. ago 'A great white shark swallowed me – I was stuck down the back of its throat'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Eric Nerhus, from Eden, Australia, was swallowed whole and head-first by a 10-ft-long great white shark while diving for molluscs off the coast of New South Wales

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36 h. ago Where you can watch your favourite films under the stars this autumn

Are you ready for spooky season? Well, drive-in cinemas will soon be popping up across South Wales to get you in the autumnal spirit.

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50 h. ago ‘A great tragedy’: man dies in shark attack near Dee Why on Sydney’s northern beaches

Beaches from Manly to Narrabeen closed after death of 57-year-old who leaves behind wife and childGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA man has died near Dee Why on Sydney’s northern beaches after being bitten by what is believed to be a large shark, in what police have called “a great tragedy”.Shortly after 10am on Saturday, New South Wales emergency services were called to Long Reef beach following reports a man had suffered critical injuries. Continue reading...

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52 h. ago He made £106,000 from crime. The amount he'll pay back is pitiful by comparison

The organised crime gang of which Gareth Hall, 26, was a member sent out hundreds of text messages advertising the sale of cocaine in south Wales

Economics

53 h. ago Man dies in shark attack near Dee Why on Sydney’s northern beaches

Man was brought to shore but died at the scene at Long Reef beach, NSW police sayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA man has died near Dee Why, on Sydney’s northern beaches on Saturday after being bitten by what is believed to be a large shark.Shortly after 10am, New South Wales emergency services were called to Long Reef Beach following reports a man had suffered critical injuries. Continue reading...

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64 h. ago ‘Massive, cosmic, untethered’: Lisa Reihana’s hypnotic world shimmers in major survey

The Māori multimedia artist has helped shape contemporary New Zealand art, and with her exhibition in regional NSW she wants to ‘entice and mesmerise’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt’s a clear early spring afternoon and Ngununggula gallery, five minutes from Bowral in the southern highlands of New South Wales, shimmers as if dressed in sequins for Mardi Gras.This is Belong, a work by the multimedia Aotearoa New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana, designed to draw the audience into Voyager: her gallery-spanning survey of evocative, immersive work, which opened on Saturday. Continue reading...

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64 h. ago All Blacks v South Africa start time, TV channel and live stream details

New Zealand host the Springboks on Saturday morning in what promises to be an incredible rugby match

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3 d. ago Storm warning after wettest week in England for seven months

Three regions of the country saw more than 35mm of rain between August 27 and September 2.

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4 d. ago Met Office warns Brits in 64 places to expect three devastating impacts of storm

The Met Office has a yellow weather warning in place for thunderstorms for large swathes of the country, including the Midlands and south Wales, and flooding is possible

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4 d. ago Met Office says people in 31 areas should think about putting together 'emergency kit' right now

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain covering 31 areas in the South West and parts of Wales, with the alert running from midnight until 2pm on Wednesday

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4 d. ago A boy contemplates life from a caravan window: Nik Roche’s best photograph

‘This kid went into the caravan and looked out at me. Does he look reflective? Sad? I think he is staring out of the window and seeing the world at his feet’Having designed and built gardens all my life, I bought my first camera when I was 47. Photography gave me an opportunity to have conversations about myself through questioning others. I don’t just take some snaps and then go, I fully immerse myself in the lives of the friends I make. Who am I to speak on anybody’s behalf if I haven’t experienced what they have, myself?I photograph where I live, in south Wales, because I know it better than anywhere else, but in this case I wanted to document a community I lived near but wasn’t part of. The body of work this picture is part of came about as a result of working with people who have been in and out of prison and become trapped in a cycle of incarceration, freedom then back to incarceration. I was wondering what draws them back to the place where they committed all their crimes. Co...

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4 d. ago Battle to stop new takeaway in Britain's fattest town where 80 per cent of locals are overweight and some eat fast food three times a day

Eighty per cent of the residents of Ebbw Vale in South Wales are classed as obese from living on high calorie takeaways, a report earlier this year found.

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5 d. ago Met Office issue yellow weather warning as months worth of rain set to batter UK today

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain across the Southwest of England and south Wales, with some places set to see 60mm of rain fall in just a few hours

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5 d. ago Yellow warning for rain in force as heavy rain and strong winds forecast

A yellow weather warning for rain is in place from midnight until 2pm on Wednesday for south-west England and much of South Wales.

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5 d. ago Drug dealer, 25, who was caught with £8,000 of cocaine and ecstasy has been spared prison

Glamorous drug dealer Grace Mort, 25, from Barry, South Wales, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine and ecstasy tablets with a street value of £8,000.

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5 d. ago Met Office issues 'emergency kit' warning for 31 UK areas with 14 hours of rain expected

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain covering 31 areas in the South West and parts of Wales, with the alert in place from midnight until 2pm on Wednesday

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