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• Godd striker needed

  NEWTOWN 3, read more

• Toxic leak from plant

  A BARRY firm has been ordered to improve safeguards after a plume of toxic chemicals escaped from its plant. read more

• Plaid worry over breakfast scheme

  PLAID Cymru is warning of a potential shambles in Barry schools trying to bring in the free breakfast scheme from the Welsh Assembly Government. read more

• Dinas Powys Cricket Club awards

  DINAS Powys Cricket Club held its Annual Dinner and Awards Night at the Star Inn, Dinas Powys on Friday, October 17. read more

• Hospitals strained

  A REVIEW has been launched to solve major problems at Llandough Hospital in providing services to Vale women. read more

• What's on in and around Barry from Thursday November 20 to Wednesday November 26

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

  50 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of November 19, 1953: read more

• Biggles

  THROUGH your columns, I would like to make contact with any readers who are collectors of, or have unwanted books by Capt W E Johns, the creator of the characters Biggles, Worrals, Gimlet and Steeley, among others. read more

• Another world title for Dragons

  NINE members of the Barry Dragons Tae Kwon Do Club represented Wales at the WKA (World Kick Boxing and Karate Association) World Championships held in Killarney, in the Republic of Ireland. read more

• Pleasure

  IT IS nice to see that the Barry and District News is still around. I enjoyed reading it through the late 1940s and 1950s while living in Barry, and what a pleasure it is to be able to read it again via the internet and keep up with the news of my birth place. Thank you. read more

• Cinema review ' The Singing Detective'

  Hollywood picks up on what the BBC did very well in 1986 with its hit musical series about a bed-ridden fantasist. read more

• Fund replaced

  GENEROUS locals have replaced the £250 stolen from the Sarah Greening fund at a Barry pub - and then more than doubled it. read more

• Young hero

  RECENTLY I travelled to Hereford for Armistice Day, but before I did, I laid flowers and a poppy on the grave of a young soldier who lies in Barry cemetery. read more

• A poser

  SO CLLR Rob Curtis proposes that Penarth people should pay for the upkeep of the pier, so as to release cash for schools, etc. Then who does he propose will pay for the upkeep of the new Headland Link, the modernist pier structure linking to the Barrage that his council are so keen on? read more

• DVD review: 'The Recruit'

  THE DELECTABLE Colin Farrell takes the lead role in the mildly entertaining movie The Recruit. read more

• Homes dispute

  FEELINGS are still running high over the Vale council's controversial Homes4U scheme, despite three public meetings to try to allay people's fears. read more

• He stabbed me, kicked me, punched me. I was terrified - I thought he would kill me

  TODAY we reveal the shocking truth about domestic violence in Barry. read more

• Dinas progress in Welsh League Cup

  AFTER a good run in the league it was cup duty for Dinas Powys AFC at the Murch last Saturday. They entertained Porthcawl in the Welsh League Cup and kept up their good form with a convincing 5-1 victory. read more

• Be warned

  I was diagnosed with lung cancer just three months ago, in August 2003. It was a shock, and because there aren't many stories about lung cancer in the papers, I didn't know how common it was. I thought I was more likely to die of breast cancer, but I was wrong. read more

• Stripped of dignity!

  Two very brave Barry men are to bare all for Children In Need - by being stripped of all their body hair from the shoulders down! read more

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