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• Falcons' freefall

  THE RAF Falcons parachute display team who jumped at Sunday's Barry Festival of Transport included a former Judo instructor from Cadoxton. read more

• Strike may hit holidays

  BARRY holidaymakers may face a summer of misery following threatened strike action by ground-handling staff at Cardiff International Airport. read more

• Centurions triumph in front of cameras

  SULLY Centurions weekend was historic with the club reaching the sixth round of the Village Cup - the farthest they have ever been - by beating Hopkinstown by five wickets in front of the Sky Television cameras. read more

• CD review - Kelis: Tasty

  KELIS has such a huge variety of sounds that you would be quite forgiven for not releasing it's her on the radio. read more

• Man butchered swan

  A BARRY man accused of killing and butchering a swan has had charges against him dropped, but he admitted receiving a dead wild bird and being in possession of it. read more

• Moving on

  TO the people of Buttrills ward, Barry: The time has come for me to step down as your Labour councillor on Barry Town Council. I think a younger and healthier person than I should now take over. read more

• DVD review - Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

  THE THIRD and final part in The Lord of the Rings trilogy is reputed to be the most spectacular, but to be honest there is no way of putting a yardstick against any one of the movies. read more

• Memories: extracts from the Barry and District

  50 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of June 17, 1954: read more

• Good read

  I look forward to buying the Barry & District News on a Thursday and my sister does too. We enter a lot of the competitions and have won a few. read more

• Play area pleasure

  A NEGLECTED Barry play area has been given a massive £80,000 new lease of life. read more

• Motorbike tragedy

  A RHOOSE biker has been killed after colliding with a tree on a notorious stretch of road near Abergavenny. read more

• TA helped me rebuild my life

  A COWBRIDGE man who had an accident which left him with a broken back and his confidence shattered, says the Territorial Army helped him rebuild his life. read more

• What's going on in and around Barry

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• Grahame Jones is remembered

  TRIBUTES have been paid to a prominent member of the Rotary Club of Barry who recently died. read more

• Fruitful

  MAY I, through the pages of your newspaper, congratulate the Gibbonsdown Fruit Co-operative which this week celebrated its first year of operation. read more

• Cadoxton Cons mark a successful season

  CADOXTON Cons FC have been celebrating a successful 2003-04 season. read more

• Parish Road

  I write with reference to the recent article regarding the parish road in Cadoxton which runs from Church Road to Victoria Park. A few years ago I had reason to contact the planning department on a totally separate mater. During this meeting I happened to mention that it was odd the builder who had constructed Bastian Close had wasted money building a separate entrance road which ran parallel to parish road. read more

• Motorbike tragedy

  A RHOOSE biker has been killed after colliding with a tree on a notorious stretch of road near Abergavenny. read more

• Shock result on election night

  PLAID Cymru and three independent candidates gained seats at the expense of Labour and the Conservatives at the Vale of Glamorgan elections but the local authority still a remains a hung council. read more

• A first midweek win of the season

  ON WEDNESDAY, Barry Wanderers Cricket Club got their first win of the midweek campaign thanks to a superb performance against Blacksmith Arms. read more

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