Ten tries, a lead that wouldn’t sit still, and Morgan Morris to settle it late. Mark Jones’ side are finally off the mark for the season.

The union has published the evidence behind its licence decisions. Swansea's council leader says it doesn't stand up, and the council's legal fight goes on.

Swansea's free Halloween party falls on Halloween itself this year, with a Mexican twist. Unlike the £34 "scarefest" that has now vanished from the internet, this one is real.

The store on Heol y Neuadd is open from 7am to 10pm every day and has a cash machine. The former Wales captain's own biltong is on its shelves.

The independent report behind Cardiff and the Dragons' licences is public at last, and the union has put a date on the decision the west has been waiting for.

Ring 101 and you should get through in under a minute, the force says. But inspectors found crimes being closed while there were still leads to follow.

A shoulder problem and a hamstring keep the pair out of Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off, and the Swans could start the day second if West Ham win tonight.

Nobody bid to run the village surgery. Now Hywel Dda wants to merge it with Meddygfa Minafon and keep Pontyates open as a branch, with patients asked for their views from 2 November.

Officers forced their way in and found white powder, scales and cash split between boxes and bags. The dealer wasn't there. The woman inside said she was only housesitting.

The woman who invented Ask for Angela and the mother who won Martyn's Law will be in Builth Wells on Monday, and the organisers want Swansea in the room.

Nigel Davies expects Wayne Pivac’s side to come out fast at Parc y Scarlets, and says his own team must stop giving the ball away straight off the set-piece.

Rhian Wilkinson's side play the first leg in Shkodër tonight, then bring the tie back to Llanelli, where they beat Montenegro 6-1 in March.

Poppies go on sale later this month, the Sunday parade has its route and times, and the council says it has taken over looking after community memorials from veterans.

He packed a kitchen knife before he left home, then spent the day looking for her. Detectives call what happened next a horrific act of violence.

Six children have already left Ysgol Meidrim. On Wednesday, councillors decide whether the school shuts for good, along with a second village school that has no pupils left at all.

Sean Bowen beat his brother James to National Hunt Jockey of the Year. His parents took the night’s top honour, and James and Mickey were recognised too.

Eight people answered the legal notice on the Ysgol Calon Lân land off Mynydd Garnllwyd Road, all objecting. The papers going to cabinet next Thursday say press on, and reveal a wildfire on the site in August.

Shut after inspectors found problems with the structure, the Grade II listed bridge is getting a new deck, new steel and new handrails. There is no cost or reopening date yet.

The 21-year-old wing has starred in the Scarlets’ opening games, and says his director of rugby’s praise is just what he needed as his confidence builds.

The Ospreys number eight loves the noise in Newport, and says back-row partner Liam Wright has been “world class” since arriving to fill the gap left by Jac Morgan.

Bradley Gibbings has four goals and two assists in a front three that has scored 16 of Pure’s 25. He says the confidence comes from his manager, and his manager reckons no club has loved him the way this one will.

The Swansea head coach won the August award and is nominated again after a September that took the Swans to the top of the table. The winner will be named on Friday.

Mark Jones made 12 changes for the defeat in Johannesburg and would do it again, but says the Ospreys still need to work out their best team, starting with the Dragons on Friday.

The insurer says everyone affected has been briefed and "location was not a consideration". What it will not give Swansea is a number.

Swansea Council adopted the powers in 2018 and its housing service never built them into day-to-day work. Cabinet is now asked to let trained officers issue legal notices and seek court closure orders, backing the police crackdown in Dyfatty.

Nigel Davies makes three changes to his starting XV as the Scarlets chase a first URC win of the season against Wayne Pivac’s Benetton at Parc y Scarlets.

Players from Open to Over 60 compete at Jaxx in Llansamlet this weekend as the UK Padel Masters Series opens. The city had two padel courts in 2023. Now there are plans for more from Parc Tawe to Mumbles and Neath.

The council's announcement talks of keeping historic elements where possible. The papers going to cabinet next week name the block that goes, say why it can't be saved, and give the dates the release left out.

The Wallaby wing starts on the right in Friday’s derby, with Sam Parry back at hooker and captain. Mark Jones expects a sell-out and a Dragons side with depth to burn.

The temporary hub at 20 High Street opened on Thursday, a month later than first announced. Lloyds, due to shut on Monday, is now staying until November, reportedly to give the permanent hub time to open. Here is the rota and what the counter can do.

Pure Swansea were three up against Caerphilly before the standards slipped. Jack Midwinter says they can’t afford that at Afan Lido, where he expects a battle.

'Literally poisoning us all': residents have been reporting the fires since spring last year and are now being urged to write to the chief executive. The council says it is stepping up action with police, fire and the environment regulator, and explains why nobody has yet been in court.

Swansea's £5.1m for St Helen's, Carmarthenshire's £2.4m Scarlets loan and £13.5m of Welsh Government money were all put on the record. Then a call to protect all four regions fell by one vote, and the Government's own softer wording fell on a tie.

Every forecourt has had to report its prices within half an hour since February. From today the numbers sit on the map pins in the app most drivers already have open.

A website is selling tickets for a 13-day Halloween scare park in Singleton Park. The council says it is a scam. Its photos match events in York and at Alton Towers, and it is not the first site of its kind councils have warned about this year.

The Wallaby wing missed the South Africa trip but is firmly in the frame for Rodney Parade. Mark Jones also explains why both co-captains sat out the Lions game, and why one of them was never injured.

Hywel Dda has published nothing since it shut wards on 27 September, and Claire Archibald says the Welsh Government cannot "leave this to the health board and hope it goes away".

When Eirwyn and Hilary Evans's team won the right to choose where the latest £500 went, they split it between the two Singleton wards that had just treated them both.

The singer Paul McCartney took to number one is being honoured at the Welsh Music Prize tonight, and her daughter will collect the award for her.

He was the only Welsh child picked to go to Japan with the British judo squad, and he spends Christmas morning serving dinner to people who are homeless.

The council has filed the demolition notice for 8 to 14 Vaughan Street. The papers reveal who else is living on the roof, how the listed bank next door will be protected, and what happens to the site if the market hall is never built.

Wednesday’s college and university matches and Friday’s Dewar Shield game have been moved to other grounds for “final operational sign-offs”. Swansea RFC v Ebbw Vale on Saturday is now the first game back, from the new JCP Solicitors Stand only.

A day after Powys health board opened its consultation, the Lib Dem MS told Rhun ap Iorwerth 9,700 people had signed against the plans and asked him to stop them. He said it was the board’s decision and he would say no more.

Six games in, the signing from Porto already looks like the moment Swansea stopped settling for mid-table. Norwich on Saturday starts the run that will show how far he can take them.

Andrew RT Davies says the regulator is “unfit for purpose” and should go the way Conservatives in England plan for their own environment agencies. A Senedd committee’s verdict last year was different: underfunded, and “stretched too thin”.

Overdue accounts turned out to be the tell. Local firms that had them were four times more likely to be gone, or going, within a year.

Kara Racuoco, 41, admitted two robberies and two shoplifting offences at Asda, Home Bargains and Tesco Extra after denying the robberies for months. Police call her a serial offender.

The 82-year-old, promoting his memoir One Helluva Ride, bristled when The Sunday Times asked how he won back his Swansea-born wife after their separation 13 years into the marriage. “We had our problems but I love her dearly.”

Her trademark is a cheerful “oooops” when the ball goes astray. The man who runs the session says she makes his case better than any advert could.

The former Wales striker, who began his career at his hometown club, says the defence is behind Swansea’s run to the top of the Championship, but warns it’s “a 5,000-metre race, not a sprint”.