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  • Guilty businessman fined for tipping

    A BARRY businessman has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £4,600 after admitting offences relating to the tipping of waste. Stuart Robert Brock, trading as Ace Site Services of Atlantic Trading Estate, Barry, pleaded guilty to two offences

  • Bed crisis

    AS SOMEONE who has been campaigning for better mental health services for more than three years, I resent John Evans's remarks in last week's issue about the needs of service users. Hospital treatment is, and always has been, an essential part of treatment

  • School's positive ethos is praised

    A BARRY Welsh medium school has won a glowing report from inspeectors for the second time in six years. Ysgol Gynraedd Gymraeg Sant Curig was described by the team as having a 'warm, friendly and happy' atmosphere. The College Road school, which is celebrating

  • Events in and around Barry from June 20 to 26

    Thursday Barry Memorial Hall, Barry. Learn to Meditate, 7.30pm-9pm. Locations around Barry. Valeways Easy Walking Scheme - for programme details telephone 01446 749000. Old Paget Inn, Barry Island. Fun night until 2am, free entry before 11pm. YMCA, Barry

  • Crucial talks over the Knap

    ENTHUSIASTIC Barry campaigner Gerwyn Pugh is finally to see Vale MP John Smith for crucial talks over the ill-fated Knap Pool. In a meeting arranged exclusively by the Barry and District News, the dedicated teacher and the Westminster man will thrash

  • Wake up!

    IS IT just me, or does anyone else have the feeling that instead of working for the people of the Vale, the Vale of Glamorgan Council seem to think that they own the Vale? They were going to restore the old Butlins site to some sort of beauty for the

  • CD Review: Emotions

    'EMOTIONS', Heat magazine's CD of the month is a must for those quiet nights in with friends. It has a strange mix of artists, from Ronan Keating and Natalie Imbruglia to Squeeze, Billy Ocean and even David Cassidy. But nevertheless it manages to pull

  • Further rap for struck-off vet

    BARRY vet Maurice Kirk was rapped by the disciplinary committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons this week for his "attitude and conduct" in his recent hearings which eventually saw him struck off. The committee found "disgraceful conduct"

  • PC Game Review: Project IGI

    Project IGI: PC CD-ROM The game places you as David Llewelyn Jones, an ex SAS soldier. You are sent on a 'Black Ops' mission into post-Soviet Russia to recover a stolen US nuclear weapon and to prevent a reoccurrence of Chernobyl. Get carried away with

  • Cardiff and Vale Schools' Senior Combined Events Championships

    Simon Bull completed a remarkable record of six wins in seven years at the recent The Capitol Shopping Centre Cardiff & Vale Schools' combined events championships, held at Leckwith. The Barry Road resident first took part in these fixtures as a year

  • Thoughtful

    BEFORE condemning the use of Sully Hospital by asylum seekers it is worth considering why these people are so desperate to leave their homes and take the risks they do, not just with their own lives but also those of their families. Our politicians and

  • Cinema Review: 40 Day and 40 Nights

    AFTER Pearl Harbour and Black Hawk Down, Josh Hartnett has become a star overnight. Now he has taken on comedy, something that could add to his success or badly damage his growing credibility. After being dumped by his girlfriend, Matt (Hartnett) embarks

  • DVD Review: X-Files 'Nothing Important Happened Today'

    THE X-FILES Nothing Important Happened Today is the third DVD of the new series available to buy. Following the tense television drama series, the feature-length films are full of political intrigue. In Nothing Important Happened Today, there are less

  • Soccer course proves great success

    A FIVE WEEK Vale of Glamorgan schools' football programme has been voted a great success. Run by the Football Association of Wales and the Vale of Glamorgan Council, the programme provided youngsters and teachers with one-and-half hours of football a

  • Family distraught in headstone row

    TWO Barry sisters say they are being forced to leave their mother's grave unmarked. Elaine and Linda McNeil lost their mum just before Christmas. They have fought and lost a battle with Barry Town Council over their choice of headstone, and have been

  • Couple in a stew

    TWO Barry pensioners were left stunned and upset after thieves snatched their sausage supper. OAPS Minnie and Emil Ludvigsen of Borough Avenue had their sausage caserole stolen as they shopped in Holton Road. Minnie, 76, told: "On Friday June 1, we'd

  • New police plan to reduce crime

    BARRY police have taken another hard-hitting step in their constant fight against escalating crime. Detectives are compiling a identity parade database in a bid to stop criminals cheating the system. Sgt Nigel Streeter explained: "We have some problems

  • Why us?

    THE RUSH by local AMs and MPs to claim credit for the apparent extra funding for road repairs is understandable. However, what was not disclosed was the fact that this year the Vale of Glamorgan received the lowest allocation of money in the country.

  • Great day

    PARKLAND Walk residents would like to express their gratitude to organisers and staff for bring invited to an excellent day at the Salisbury Road, Residential Home Queen's Jubilee party. Mrs Jones Parkland Walk Barry

  • Rat Attack

    A BARRY community is in the grip of a major rat attack. Daniel Street residents say they are plagued with scores of the vicious, dirty rodents. Anne Usher of Daniel Street claims she has seen a huge number of rats darting about her road in the last month

  • Pool efforts

    I HAVE watched since I was a child how Barry is slowly disappearing and losing everything that has made this a wonderful place to live in. I was always fond of coming home when I was away. Now I have found that the place I once knew is no more, all because

  • Cup progress for Sully

    SULLY CENTURIONS had a frustrating time last Saturday when the heavens opened with victory in sight. It looked as if it would be a similar story on Sunday when the Sully side arrived at Penarth for what promised to be a mouth watering Welsh Cup tie, and

  • Extracts from the Barry and District News 50 and 25 years ago

    50 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS of the Barry & District News of June 19, 1952: Setting an example in sporting achievements which is going to be difficult to emulate is Clive Phillips of Romilly School, who on Wednesday won the 100 and 220 yards finals of the

  • Prejudiced

    IT was distressing to read about the prejudice and ignorance displayed about asylum seekers in the letters to the Barry and District News. These people have given up their homes and livelihoods to escape from conditions that we in the UK cannot even imagine

  • Audition and be seen on screen

    A BARRY man who gave up everything to make his dreams come true is on the way to stardom. Al Wilson left his safe job as a carpenter to try to make it in the world of film. And now it looks like he is definitely on the way up. Two years after launching