Swansea joins 11 other high streets across Great Britain and Northern Ireland vying for the title of UK champion. Last year Crickhowell snatched the title of the UK's best high street.

When gallery director Jonathan Powell first started working in Swansea's High Street in 2006 it was "a bit like Beirut", he said. A landscape of boarded-up shops and off-licences and "nothing else ...

Swansea high street has being turned into a 'ghetto', residents claim Credit: Nigel Iskander. 7. Locals say police have failed to clamp down on the resurgent red light district Credit: Nigel Iskander.

M usic from the likes of The Rolling Stones and Beatles has dated well from the 1960s but high-rise blocks of flats generally haven't - and Swansea's Croft Street is no different. But tenants will ...

T here was plenty of excitement and talk of a community cafe when Swansea Council started renovating a row of tired-looking shops at the top of High Street. People in the area and community groups ...

A Swansea Council spokesman said: "The High Street area of Swansea is going though great change with more than £100m of investment. "A £12m urban village of homes, shops and commercial property ...

When gallery director Jonathan Powell first started working in Swansea's High Street in 2006 it was "a bit like Beirut", he said. A landscape of boarded-up shops and off-licences and "nothing else ...

Swansea high street has being turned into a 'ghetto', residents claim Credit: Nigel Iskander. 7. Locals say police have failed to clamp down on the resurgent red light district Credit: Nigel Iskander.

Image caption, A mural by Welsh artist Charles Uzzell-Edwards, aka Pure Evil, on Swansea High Street's Volcano Theatre When gallery director Jonathan Powell first started working in Swansea's High ...