Llanelli Star

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	Trinity Mirror
Editor	Jonathan Roberts
Founded	9/10/1909
Political alignment	None
Circulation	1,923 (as of 2023)[1]
Website	walesonline.co.uk/all-about/llanelli

The Llanelli Star is a Welsh regional newspaper covering the areas of Llanelli and Carmarthen in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is published on a weekly basis in a tabloid form. The newspaper is published by Trinity Mirror, the same company behind the South Wales Evening Post. In 2012, Local World acquired South West Wales Publications owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust.^[2] Geoffrey Lloyd was the editor from 1965 to his death in 1986.^[3]

In December 2017, it was announced that the Llanelli Star office in Cowell Street, Llanelli was to close down.^[4]

The Llanelli Star has a sister paper, the Carmarthen Journal. The Star was originally published on a Thursday, but both are now published on Wednesdays. The two papers have different formats and news content which varies by area.

The Llanelli Star covers the district of Llanelli and the Gwendraeth Valley where the Carmarthen Journal covers the town of Carmarthen and also the Gwendraeth Valley.

• There are three editions of the Llanelli Star, the main Llanelli edition, the Burry Port edition and the Gwendraeth Valley edition which was re-launched in late 2011.

• Town
• Gwendraeth
• Cardigan
• Llandeilo
• Lampeter
• Whitland

• "NNG - Newspaper - Llanelli Star". Northcliffe Media Limited. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2021. About the paper
• "Homepage". This Is South Wales .co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 December 1999. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
• "Homepage". Llanelli Star Online. Archived from the original on 21 April 2015.
• Official website - Media Wales Website of the Llanelli Star