A young Swansea songstress who has learned her trade in the pubs and clubs of South Wales has just recorded her first CD and it is already available on Amazon. Laura Jayne Davies, 21, has released Songbook, an album of covers of some of her favourite songs after taking a second place in a heat [...]

A piece of ancient glass over 3000 years old, on display in Swansea University’s Egypt Centre, has been identified as one of the missing pieces from a rare glass Egyptian vase which is currently in the Cairo Museum. The brightly coloured fragment, which is on loan from Swansea Museum, originally belonged to pharaoh Amenhotep II [...]

A Chinese delegation is to visit Swansea University’s College of Medicine this week to help mark the life of a Swansea man who founded one of the oldest hospitals in China. The visitors, from Hankou Union Hospital which is affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, are to visit Swansea to [...]

An old devil is helping a Swansea exile put her home city on the map across the Atlantic. Sonia Kho, who left her homeland for the wide open spaces of Canada 35 years ago, is to have a story published in the British Canadian newspaper about the ‘Swansea Devil’. The carved wooden figure keeps watch [...]

A Swansea University Creative Writing MA student has won a much prized place on the BBC Production Talent Pool training scheme. Kelsey Richards, from Maesteg, is one of only 13 successful candidates to be based in Cardiff. From 2,298 applications to the UK-wide scheme, only 123 were accepted. The scheme offers successful applicants training and [...]

Senior lecturer in Welsh at Academi Hywel Teifi, Swansea University, Dr Cynfael Lake has been ­­­­­awarded a prestigious British Academy Fellowship worth 89k to study the poems of Hywel Dafi. Hywel Dafi is the only major 15th century Welsh poet whose work remains to be edited, and Dr Cynfael Lake will be allowed to take [...]

The first students have signed up for a new, fast track course that will set them on the path to business greatness. The Entrepreneurship Academy Wales is the first of its kind in Wales and is being endorsed by local entrepreneur and ‘Secret Millionaire’ Kevin Green, with further sponsorship support from Euros Jones-Evans from Telesgop, [...]

Lovely Shelley Long has a smile to light up a room and she’s the winner of the Swansea’s Sunniest Smile competition run by the Quadrant Shopping Centre. Shelley, 24, from Gorseinon, brightens the day for customers at the Officers Club store in the Quadrant where she is assistant manager. The cheerful girl from Gorseinon received [...]

Swansea is part of a national trial to see if music lovers in the digital age still have a love affair with vinyl records. The music and video giant HMV has refitted its store in the City’s Quadrant shopping centre to accommodate vinyl 7ins and LP records – and retro-style record players – which are [...]

Green-fingered gardeners from a Swansea primary school have struck Olympic gold at the annual Swansea in Bloom awards. The youngsters from Cila Primary School, in Killay, came out on top in the Premier League of the schools competition, sponsored by the Quadrant Shopping Centre, which this year had an Olympics theme. It was an impressive [...]