BARRY Town Football Club have proved they have got the bottle to win the title this season - now they want to get 'fizz-ical'. The League of Wales' Champions have just announced a new sponsorship deal with soft drink giants Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE)
HITS 52 is jam-packed with lots of recent hits and kicks off with pop idol Will Young and Evergreen. Irish boyband Westlife is up next with World of Our Own while Shakira's Suerte (Whenever, Wherever) is also featured. Mis-Teeq's groovy B With Me offers
BARRY children's gymnastics have been boosted by a series of grants to schools and clubs. Helping to build on the excellent work of local sports groups and organisations in providing gymnastic opportunities for young people in the Vale, the local Community
NEWTOWN 0, BARRY TOWN 1 WHEN KENNY Brown entered the arena late in the second half, he was given a hero's welcome by the Barry faithful. The fans sang and cheered and must have made the Barry Town manager a very proud man. Receiving the plaudits was just
A BARRY boy seriously injured in a car smash is appealing for witnesses to the horrific event. Through his solicitors, Christopher Price, 11, who suffered head injuries that left him in a wheelchair, is urging locals with information to come forward.
I AND my family used the Knap Lido for many years, and were bitterly disappointed when it closed its gates a few years back. My daughter is severely handicapped and it was an ideal day out for her and my family to enjoy together and also to meet up with
THE VALE of Glamorgan Karate Organisation, which has gone from strength to strength since it was founded only 18 months ago, now stands at the summit of Welsh Karate after dominating the official Welsh Karate Championships last weekend. The Welsh Karate
A CADOXTON father-of-two is fearing for his children's safety after several cars were burnt out near his home in a spate of worrying incidents. Andrew Ellis, 33, of Gilbert Street, says two cars have been left blazing in separate incidents over the past
Need For Speed 3: PC CD-ROM Well it s another instalment in the Need For Speed saga, so buckle up your seat belts, tune your car and start racing. The game offers a wide variety of high performance cars in which to race. You can select your car, tune
REGARDING your article (April 11) about the Knap Pool. Seapoint (35 flats) and Sealawns (15 flats) directly overlook the pool and the sea and have done so since the late sixties and early seventies respectively. We have been in correspondence with various
HE IS getting everywhere! His haircuts spark a media frenzy and his choice of clothes puts him on the front cover of nearly every magazine in Europe. Now, Mr David Beckham has had a film named after him, and with a title like Bend It Like Beckham, it
SEXY, sassy and sparkling, Kylie Minogue stepped out onto the Cardiff International Arena stage and purred: "Sut mae Cardiff?" As the crowd went wild, we knew we were in for a fantastic night on what was the launch of Kylie's £4 million UK Fever tour.
A BARRY school has been awarded a substantial grant from a national banking chain. St Richard Gwyn Roman Catholic High School has been given £5,000 by Barclays New Futures, a national award for citizenship projects. All winning projects are student-led
BARRY welcomed cricketing legend Ian 'Beefy' Botham into the town last weekend. The renowned charity fund-raiser strolled into the Vale of Glamorgan on Friday as part of his 326 mile walk in aid of the Noah's Ark Appeal - a campaign that hopes to fund
I AND many more people, not only locals, would not want the Cold Knap swimming pool to be filled in and built on. It would make a wonderful leisure centre, and if it could be covered, could be used all the year round. I am sure it would soon pay for itself
VALE PUPILS claimed two of the three top awards at the recent Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Schools presentation evening. The event, held at Cardiff's Whitchurch High School, proved to be a hectic one for a Cowbridge sixth former. Matthew Jones celebrated
PENARTH'S prospective Conservative candidate for next year's National Assembly elections is demanding that frontline politics change. Dianne Rees believes there should be more women at the top because they know what they are talking about when it comes
I AM concerned with the state of disrepair in the whole area of Cold Knap. The Lido and boating lake were once the pride of the town of Barry. During the 1950s in my teen years the whole area was a hugely popular place and during the summer months the
BARRY girls who went to the first ever classes at Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School got together last week. And after 22 years, they celebrated both their 40th birthdays and the reunion in style at the Mount Sorrel Hotel on Saturday night. The get-together
I BELIEVE, without doubt, that the Knap Lido should be restored to its former glory. Summers just haven't been the same since it closed. My whole family learnt to swim at the "baths" and we used to spend almost every summer day there, all day on weekends
IT SEEMS obvious to me that the council has no interest in refurbishing the Knap pool. A few months ago when plans were submitted for flats to be built on the site, it was stated that if it was sold to developers the money raised could pay for much needed
50 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of May 1, 1952: The Old Pioneers Hall, Beryl Road, was again crowded on Wednesday week, when the Colcot Children's Concert Party gave an excellent performance of "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
BARRY'S crumbling and decrepit schools need more than £20 million to stop them falling even further into disrepair. A survey has revealed that nearly all sites in the Vale require a massive cash injection to bring them back to a satisfactory state. Bryn
I AM writing in response to your article of April 11 concerning The Knap pool being left to rack and ruin. I feel that the lack of a decision being made as to the future use of this pool, or the surrounding land of the pool, has been left for far too
Thursday Barry Memorial Hall, Barry. Learn to Meditate, 7.30pm-9pm. Old Paget Inn, Barry Island. Fun night until 2am, free entry before 11pm. YMCA, Barry. Line dancing for intermediate dancers 7.30pm-9.30pm. Contact Ruth on 02920 707591/07967 804469.
A BARRY royalist has cast his mind back to 1953 to recall the pomp and ceremony of the Queen's Coronation. Fred Davies, of Chilcote Street, was only a young boy at the time, but there are parts of the day that stand out in his mind. He can even remember
