If you've been out for a stroll in the sunshine along Swansea Prom this week - or you've popped out for a spot of breakfast, lunch or a drink in one of the many, brilliant cafes and restaurants in Mumbles - you're sure to have noticed an unusual sight on the beach: construction workers in huge JCBs and diggers excavating the sands.
Fortunately, there's no cause for alarm and their work has been planned and approved for quite some time.
The excavation works taking place are part of a multi-million pound major project improving the sea defences in the area, which was approved a year ago. Over the next 18 months, different sections of the promenade will be closed to the public at different times as workers build more than a kilometre of new sea defences along the bay, which will ultimately help protect local residents, businesses and homes at risk of rising sea-levels and flooding.
