DESERT STORM BLOWS INTO CITY
The mystery of the red dust which has been appearing across South West Wales has been solved - and the answer lies a long way away.Residents from Swansea to Neath and Crynant in the Dulais Valley found their homes and cars covered in the grime.
Many pointed the finger at pollution, but according to weather experts the dusty downpour was rather more exotic in origin - sand from the Sahara Desert.
John Copner, from Ridgeway, Killay was one of those left to clean up the mess.
"There was orangey-brown stuff all over the place," he said. "Everything was plastered with it.