A hearty ‘good luck’ to ForumWales moderator Arwen! Today she flies to Heathrow from California to then travel onwards to Wales. Arwen is making the move to study Welsh at Swansea.
FW wishes her the best of luck in her new Welsh adventure and hopes that she enjoys her course and her time in […]

Well why not. Not a topic anyone likes to talk about, dying, but let’s face it, we all do it.
As it happens, Oystermouth Cemetery has made the final list for the 2007 Cemetery of the Year award. So what makes this one so special?
Probably not the fact that hoards of people have […]

In view of all the negativity surrounding the Welsh squad of late it’s lovely to see something positive going down on the Welsh rugby front.
James Hook has been awarded the Rugby Writers Association Player of the Season award. An award well deserved by a sensational player.
Llongyfarchiadau i ti, James! […]

The folks on the beach at Aberavon probably don’t think so - at least they didn’t Friday afternoon.
With the only public toilet facility for miles closed by rescue operations all afternoon, it goes without saying the local pubs were doing a bang up business as desperate people found their way into town and the public […]

A harrowing rescue was pulled off by the coastguard off the cliffs above Rhossili this past week when Jess, one sheep and a taxi driver suddenly found themselves with a beautiful ocean view from their less-than-desirable vantage point halfway down the cliff face.
Sounds like a good sheep joke, doesn’t it?
Syd Anderson from Tycoch, the dog’s […]

A firm in Port Talbot has found a way to deal with the tons of used tyres that heretofore have found their way into gardens, empty lots and the bottom of gullies. The company uses liquid nitrogen to freeze the rubber and then, when brittle, smashes them into tiny bits for reuse. […]

Well, as hard of an act as Dave’s Sheep Poo Paper is to follow……..
The Swansea Council has had a coup of sorts by acquiring sufficient funding to build a new trail to link up the village with a circular “green walk”. The green walk is about six miles long, meandering through parks and […]

The beauty of a site like YouTube is that you can find some true gems (amongst all the rubbish). Take a look, for example, at the video below of the Mumbles Train compliled and posted by YouTube user wildben. Apparently, back in 1807, the first railroad car was pulled between Swansea and Mumbles.

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The Swansea Council has been presented with some fantastic numbers and a not-so-hard-to-make decision. Swansea projects 300 more places will be needed for pupils at Welsh Medium Primary School level in the next few years. Apparently more and more people are deciding to educate their children through the medium of Welsh and numbers […]

Funny, my automatic form filler filled in that title for me. Guess it’s not the first time I’ve had this dilemma!
Actually this time round, it’s more a case of having too much material rather than not enough. The Swansea Leader came out today and it full of interesting and exciting stuff. Well, […]

Well, we’re getting close to the end of the public comment period on the revitalization of Swansea Bay (comments due by the end of June). You might recall I mentioned this plan in a previous article.
Moving into the consultation process will give us some exhibitions - that should help everyone visualize what’s in the […]

Now this I think is just terrific! Arts in Action will be sponsoring an exhibition of art at Swansea’s Guildhall in June and July. The exhibition will include art from young pupils in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot as well as artists and designers in their final year of study at Swansea Institute […]