29 h. 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

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56 h. 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

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1 week ago Reynolds: Port Talbot plant does not meet US rules to get steel tariff exemption

Negotiations are ongoing to secure the outstanding tariff agreements.

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2 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

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2 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.

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2 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

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2 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

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3 w. ago Thousands of jobs saved and British Steel plant future secured after £500m Network Rail deal

From a £500m rail deal set to rescue British Steel, to Aviva’s £3.7bn Direct Line takeover, surging fossil fuel finance, job cuts linked to NICs, Gareth Bale’s move into football ownership, and Mizkan’s Manchester expansion - here are today’s top UK business stories.

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3 w. ago Thousands of British Steel jobs secured thanks to £500m Network Rail deal

Two months after being saved by the government, British Steel's Scunthorpe plant is celebrating securing a five-year contract from Network Rail to supply 337,000 tonnes of long and short rail

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3 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...

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3 w. ago Bodybuilder teenager, 15, who jumped off pier in celebration of finishing exams may not have drowned if a lifeguard was present, coroner rules

David Ejimofor, 15, died after getting into trouble during a 'coming of age ceremony' in the water off Aberavon Beach, Port Talbot.

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3 w. ago Inside the new £400m UK train line that will never be used by normal passengers

The new £400million project, in the mountains of Neath Port Talbot, will have miles of railway tracks and station platforms - but it's not for everyday passengers

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4 w. ago Nigel Farage slapped down for 'selling fairy dust' to people of Wales

Reform leader Nigel Farage said he wants to reopen the Port Talbot steelworks in Wales, but is under pressure to say how he would achieve it after failing to give answers today

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4 w. ago Nigel Farage struggles to name an 'inspirational' Welsh person as he talks up Reform taking power in Cardiff

The party leader said that his party was the only real alternative to Labour in the Senedd as he spoke in Port Talbot ahead of elections next May.

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4 w. ago Two more Welsh politicians defect to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

The announcement was made as Nigel Farage delivered a keynote speech in Port Talbot

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4 w. ago Live updates as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage makes major speech in Port Talbot

Nigel Farage will lay out his party's plans ahead of the Senedd election in May 2026

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4 w. ago Reopen the pits! Revealed, Nigel Farage's big idea to help save the steel industry in Wales...dig for coal in nearby valleys

In a major speech, the Reform leader will put coal-mining at the centre of the party's plans for reopening the Port Talbot Steelworks if it wins Welsh elections next year.

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