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  • Triple awards honour for Joe

    CARDIFF City youngster Curtis Watkins, who has recently signed professional terms with the Bluebirds, was a welcome guest at the Barry Athletic Football Club U13s end-of-season presentation evening.Held at the Athletic sports ground, the event was well

  • Tabletop sale

    AGE Connect Cardiff and Vale are holding a tabletop sale at The Senior Health Shop, Holton Road, Barry on Saturday, July 26, from10am-noon. There will be a sale of new/nearly new clothes with many bargains and prices very reasonable, a cake stall and

  • Strawberry Tea to raise funds for Breast Cancer Care

    A STRAWBERRY Tea to raise funds for Breast Cancer Care will take place in a Vale store on Wednesday, July 30.The Place for Homes, a local furniture and flooring store, will host the event at the store in Llandow, Cowbridge.The firm has selected Breast

  • Champions beaten as 'Rom' remain on course for league title

    IN A game crucial to two teams vying for the Municipal League 1 title, Barry Romilly Bowling Club faced a major challenge against last year's league champions Gilfach Bargoed on Saturday.Renewed belief at Romilly meant the hosts were in a positive

  • Store to host strawberry tea party

    THE Place for Homes, your local furniture and flooring store, will host a strawberry tea party at the store in Llandow, Cowbridge on July 30, for Breast Cancer Care – the only UK-wide specialist support charity.The Place For Homes Ltd has selected

  • Former RAF pilot's debut novel on readers' radar

    A FORMER RAF pilot turned Barry Island-based author has seen sales of his debut novel soar past the 10,000 mark.Wings Over Summer, by Ron Powell, has experienced the sales in just one year since it was featured in the Barry & District News.Ron spent

  • New bus service for Island day trippers

    A BUS company has devised a plan to rival Dave’s Coaches with a Barry Island service enabling customers to enjoy the Gavin and Stacey resort.Cardiff Bus has launched its X99 service summer special which, Monday to Fridays, will allow passengers

  • Barry to get "tackling poverty" funding boost

    BARRY has been named as one of seven areas to benefit from a £7million "tackling poverty" fund.Minister for Housing and Regeneration, Carl Sargeant, recently announced that Barry would be receiving a £1million injection to help with

  • Row over Vale settlement

    A STATEMENT regarding the possibility of MP Alun Cairns and Vale council leader Neil Moore joining forces to seek a better settlement for the area has sparked a spat that may have put an end to that possibility before it even began.Conservative MP Mr

  • Discover more on the heritage coast this summer

    A RANGE of new experiences from foraging sessions to photography lessons will be available to visitors to the Glamorgan Heritage Coast this summer following the launch of six pilot activities created to increase the area’s appeal as a tourist destination

  • Exhibits bring war to life

    A LIFE sized voluntary aid detachment nurse is just one of the exhibits a Barry history group has unveiled to commemorate the Great War outbreak. The Glamorgan Wartime Heritage Centre, at Barry Island Railway, showed off its new exhibits to commemorate

  • Griffett swings the bat as Seconds enjoy spotlight

    WITH the Sully Centurions Cricket Club 1st XI fixture falling victim to the weather, the Seconds enjoyed their moment in the spotlight with a convincing 174-run win over local rivals Dinas Powys.While the undoubted star of the day was Jake Griffett with

  • PhillyBear’s playgroup beach trip

    SOME very excited children waited at Barry Dock train station on Monday, July 7, for the 9.15am train to Barry Island for the second trip to the beach for PhillyBear’s playgroup.Some of the children had been on a train trip with the playgroup before

  • Beavers seek support in annual triathlon

    LOCAL athletes are being urged to support the annual Barry Beavers Disabled Swimming Club fundraising triathlon.With the help of six other triathletes, a club trio - Chris, Cath and Rob - helped raise more than £2,000 last year which helped Barry

  • Provis' leading role in Athletic league success

    CAPTAIN for the day Steve Provis played a starring role with bat and ball as Barry Athletic Cricket Club 1st XI got back to winning ways against Welsh Asians.With Provis asking the visitors to bat, they were soon in trouble when Steve Jones removed Ahmed

  • Search to find Family Heroes in Wales

    THE search is on to find family heroes in Wales.We would like you to nominate your family hero. Do you know someone who has made a difference to the lives of children, young people or families? A family hero is inspirational, outstanding and someone who

  • Litter on the streets

    I THOUGHT readers might like to see the state of Gladstone Road following the refuse collectors departure. Surely a council cleaning van should follow the refuse collectors to avoid this happening? It's hardly rocket science. Litter of this magnitude

  • Barry beach huts debacle

    WHY is it that the Vale appears to be run by amateurs? The beach hut debacle is yet another example of council incompetence and waste perpetrated by those who have no regard for local tax payers money.Thinking back to when the Knap swimming pool was demolished

  • Hypocritical politicians

    SO David Cameron has done a reshuffle of his cabinet and has got rid of one lot of jokers only to be replaced by another lot of jokers.One name comes to mind Stephen Crabb the new Minister for Wales.This man in 2007 berated the position of Welsh Secretary

  • Dog in distress

    WHILST on a shopping trip with my daughter to Morrisons I noticed a small dog locked in a car with the windows shut.The temperature outside the car was very hot, so inside must have been unbearable and the dog was clearly distressed. I went back into

  • Doubts relief road will work

    BEING a regular visitor to Jenner Park School I have the utmost sympathy for the residents of Hannah Street and adjoining side streets with the chronic traffic problems.A relief road through the Council Depot site to cure the problems? I have grave doubts

  • Memories from past editions

    50 years agoExtracts from the Barry & District News of July 23, 1964:• A Barry man who in March climbed a 90-foot mast in a 50-mile an hour wind to rescue a fellow airman who had collapsed when about eight feet from the top, has been awarded

  • Barry man cleared of attempted murder

    A BARRY man has been cleared of attempted murder by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court.The jury concluded that Gary Pincott, 56, of Holton Road, had in fact been trying to protect Leanne Ware who was pulled out of the River Taff lifeless last February having

  • Celebrate nature and friendship at festival

    A FESTIVAL that continues to grow will spring up for a 5th year in a Barry park this Sunday, July 27. Art4U is set to hold their annual Friendship Tree Festival at Knap Lake and Gardens from 2pm to 8pm.Artists performing include Back to November, Hank

  • Bust some moves with ska band

    VALE-BASED seven piece ska/two tone cover band, Too Toned are tuning up to play a Cardiff gig next month.Fans are encouraged to join them at The Claude, Albany Road, Cardiff, on August 8.

  • Second victim of jailed church elder speaks out

    A SECOND victim of jailed Jehovah's Witness elder Mark Sewell has stepped forward to tell of her ordeal at the hands of the convicted rapist.Tina Guy, a former employee of Sewell, has told of her horror at recalling an incident where she was driven