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  • Hands off our fine trees

    BACK on November 3, 2005, the Barry & District News published a photograph along with my letter that commented on the state of the trees in Claude Road, after the council had pollarded them in 2001. The trees were cut back

  • Interesting Approach

    I HAVE read with interest the letters recently in the Barry and District News concerning Cemetery Approach. Was it not prudent that Cllr Keith Lewis brought to the public domain the issue of Cemetery Approach, with a letter correcting Councillor Claire

  • Thanks for your help

    ON Sunday, February 26, I was driving along Broad Street when I started feeling extremely unwell due to a medical condition I have. I pulled over by the Memorial Hall and out of nowhere appeared a very kind lady who saw I was in trouble and, God bless

  • Welcome initiative

    THE Vale of Glamorgan Council’s bid to create a recreational community amenity at Cemetery Approach is a very welcome initiative. It is line with the wishes of the vast majority of Barry people, because 11,300 of them signed a petition three years

  • Comedy writers

    WE ARE a comedy writers society based in Penarth. The society’s aim is to bring together like-minded people to discuss material, ideas and comedy concepts. We meet every month, with our next meeting at 8pm Sunday, March 4, at the Penarth Legion Club

  • Scottish team appearance for Barry RFC U16s star Tom Adams

    Barry RFC U16s and Youth player Tom Adams went on holiday to Scotland for a week recently – and was invited to play for Lenzie RFC, a team near Glasgow! He trained with their 2nds, and said: "Their training is totally different in style to

  • Let games go ahead

    PLEASE can someone inform the Vale of Glamorgan parks department that ‘soccer’ is a winter game. The least bit of rain and the parks department call off all the matches on pitches that have a little bit of surface water laying on them.

  • Scene was ruined

    TAKING my regular walk from Aberystwyth Crescent off Trinity Street to Coldbrook where my son, his girlfriend and my granddaughter live, I was delighting in the sunny weather, crossing the small stream/river along and up into Jenkin Street, emerging

  • Success for young Barry roller skaters

    TWO Barry youngsters from Cardiff Roller Collective's Artistic Skating Club achieved glory at the West Berkshire roller skating competition at Northcroft Leisure Centre in Newbury last weekend. Clubs attended from all over England, however Amber Ivins

  • Talk to residents

    I HAVE read with interest recent letters in your paper plus others concerning the future of Cemetery Approach. Being an allotment holder on the site just below the approach for about 25 years, I have witnessed the growth of the wooded area to one

  • Relief as Barry's Peacocks store is saved

    A BARRY clothes store threatened with closure in the economic downturn has officially been saved. Staff at Peacocks in Barry have all kept their jobs, after the fashion chain was bought out of administration by Edinburgh Woollen Mill. The Scottish company

  • Cycle path is used

    AFTER reading the letter ‘Cycle path not used’ (Barry & District News, February 23), I would like to put the letter-writer straight. The cycle path on Millennium Way is used all the time - cyclists on one-part and walkers on the other. A cycle path

  • Cinema is needed

    THE Save Our Cinema Association (SOCA) group were extremely disappointed after losing the fight for Barry’s last cinema the Theatre Royal. A new modern cinema is long overdue for our town and the current proposed Barry Island pleasure park development

  • Causing a big stink

    LAST Sunday (February 26) was the second Sunday running that the bin at Redbrink Crescent/Friars Road green has been overflowing with rubbish – and it’s not that busy on Barry Island yet. I wonder if it would it help if the bin had a bottom in it?

  • No say on decisions

    VALE of Glamorgan Council observers will have taken some time to view the ‘Final Proposals for the Revenue Budget 2012/2013’ report which went to Wednesday’s cabinet meeting. The 24 pages of text relating to the council’s financial position is a mixture

  • Cost to council

    IN reply to the letter from Gareth Jones (Barry & District News, February 23) accusing me of ignoring the views of local people regarding Cemetery Road, this is simply untrue. I considered very carefully those views, including the ones I received

  • Llandow Kart Club's 2012 race season under way

    LLANDOW Kart Club got its 2012 race season under way on a typically chilly weekend, but 68 hardy souls – plus the hardier officials needed to run the meeting – braved the conditions to kick off the year in style. The Bambino class got things

  • What's on in and around Barry...

    THURSDAY Barry Island Sport and Social Club. Dance Exercise class 7pm-8pm. Tel 07753413266. Barry YMCA. Zumba Class 7.15pm-8.15pm. Tel 07531814820. Barry Library. Cardiff & Vale Credit Union payment and information