Llanelli MP Dame Nia Griffith has urged the Welsh Rugby Union to recognise the pivotal role of the Scarlets before they make any drastic changes.

Shane Williams and Tom Shanklin have both backed the Ospreys to be the highest finishing Welsh team in the United Rugby Championship this season, as Simon Thomas reports.

Joe Hawkins is back in Wales with the Scarlets and tells Simon Thomas he was right to leave for England . . . and right to return home.

Jake Ball has changed his diet, his body, and his mind about retirement. Now, the Scarlets folk hero wants to use the opening weeks of the season to win back his Wales place as he tells Graham Thomas.

The Scarlets have thrown off the gloves and are ready for a bare-knuckle fight with the WRU over how the game should operate in west Wales.

First, the Ospreys paraded Swansea Council, now the Scarlets have trumpeted new investors from the USA as the Welsh regions scrap it out to prove how undroppable they are.

The Scarlets may be threatened by structural upheaval in Welsh rugby, but that won’t stop them looking forward to a return to the European elite.

He was always a firm fan favourite as a player and an interviewer’s dream, but now Bradley Davies has taken the first step into coaching at the top level.

He was always a firm fan favourite as a player and an interviewer’s dream, but now Bradley Davies has taken the first step into coaching at the top level.

The Scarlets’ season is over, but they went further than any of the other Welsh regions and Dwayne Peel reckons the future is bright.

Not many teams beat Leinster in Dublin, but Josh Macleod insists the resurgent Scarlets are capable of doing so this weekend, as Graham Thomas reports.

It's the awards season in rugby as we near the end of the domestic campaign and in the United Rugby Championship that means three Scarlets players are in with a shout, as Simon Thomas reports.