They built Swansea to dazzle investors, not dig deeper mines—and it shows. From dust chambers to deserted storefronts, we uncover a town built on bold promises and left behind by the 1940s.

Across a road, a man from Tenerife, who wished only to be known as Miko, 47, was busy building a home for himself, hammering nails into panels of wood. He told the Express that he and others were ...

Jane Cull, an English teacher in a language school who has lived on the island for several years, has been staying with a ...