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

  50 YEARS AGO read more

• Residents fight to save homes

  CONCERN has been voiced by Penarth residents living within the range of a new mobile telephone mast. read more

• What's on in and around Barry from Thursday February 27 to Wednesday March 5

  Thursday read more

• A disgrace

  I REFER to the letter you published last week from Dr Kim Howells, the Minister responsible for the Licensing Bill that is currently before the House of Lords. read more

• Sold

  BARRY'S infamous 'House of Horror' has been sold to a young local family. read more

• Relocation

  Relocation read more

• Bangor blow

  BANGOR 1, BARRY TOWN 1 read more

• Too taxing

  IT IS ABSOLUTELY disgusting to waste all that money on the chairman of the council's new office. read more

• Wildcats show their teeth at Dunvant

  PICTURED right, Barry Rugby Club's Chairman, Mike Grigg (on the left), receives a trophy from Mr Malcolm Thomas OBE, President of the Welsh Society of Rugby Union Referees, for being "the best club in the WRU's District B". read more

• Cadet Matthew is remembered

  A BARRY teenager who died just weeks after realising his dream of joining the RAF was remembered last week. read more

• DVD review Murder by Numbers

  MANY people have come to know Sandra Bullock as a fabulous looker, but with roles that always seem to poke fun at her. read more

• Too taxing

  I RECALL when the Scottish and Welsh regional assemblies were set up, the Welsh members complained that, unlike the Scottish version, they were unable to raise taxes. read more

• Pub bill

  I REFER to the letter you published last week from Dr Kim Howells, the Minister responsible for the Licensing Bill that is currently before the House of Lords. read more

• Vale Karate take lion's share at Maesteg Open

  THE VALE karate squad arrived in force at their first local tournament of 2003 when they attended the Maesteg Open on February 2. read more

• CD review Biography

  'BIOGRAPHY' is Lisa Stansfield's newest release, and it is just what it says on the cover. read more

• Snubbed

  WILL you please allow a little space in our Barry & District News to record my strongest objection to the under handed "Dumming Down" of the name of our Memorial Hall in Barry? read more

• No Shaw thing for TV wnners

  BARRY singing sensation Jamie Shaw is facing an uncertain future after a disastrous week. read more

• Field abuse

  I FEEL I must write after reading Councillor Clease's comment about the Buttrills Field. read more

• Woman starved snake to death

  A VALE of Glamorgan 'animal lover' who starved her pet python to death was banned from keeping reptiles for ten years. read more

• Lovely win

  WE WISH to record our grateful thanks to the Barry and District News for organising the "Valentine Competition" - special thanks to the person who drew the winning envelope - Fred's! - and to the participating companies: Safeways, Cwm Ciddy Restaurant and Associated Taxis. read more

On this day: Barry Archive