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Memories of the real Dad's Army
10:00am Thursday 2nd July 2009
PICTURED are members of the Home Guard, taken at the gunsight at Sully during the war in early 1944.
Defending biomass
9:40am Thursday 2nd July 2009
ON Thursday, June 19, the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s Planning Committee deferred a decision on Sunrise Renewables Ltd’s proposed biomass - wood fuelled - combined heat and power scheme for Barry Docks, in turn delaying investment of £20 million for Barry and the creation of 50 construction and 25 permanent jobs.
Lauren is doing well
9:30am Thursday 2nd July 2009
HERE is a photo of my daughter Lauren Furnish with Jane Hutt AM at the VQ Day on Wednesday, June 24 (celebrating vocational success).
Have your say »Looking back
9:20am Thursday 2nd July 2009
THIS week’s old photograph, taken in the garden of 38 Hywel Crescent about 1941, was submitted by reader Barry Cooksley. Pictured are Thelma Cleek, June Thomas, Gordon Cooksley, Marion Cooksley, Graham Boss, Eric Thomas, Norma Cleek, Shirley Thomas, Margaret Davies, Barry Cooksley and Peter Woodrow, who is carrying his gas mask over his shoulder.
Little bit of history lost
9:20am Thursday 2nd July 2009
AS I was driving home from the Barry Yacht Club last week, I had an interesting view of a low loader removing carriages from the old railway society in Plymouth Road.
Waterfront concerns
9:10am Thursday 2nd July 2009
THERE have been several letters of concern from Barry residents in our local newspapers referring to the recent ‘Waterfront Exhibition’.
Thefts from allotment
9:10am Thursday 2nd July 2009
I HAVE had an allotment for a couple of years and everything was fine until the recession kicked in.
I'm shocked
9:00am Thursday 2nd July 2009
I REFER to the letter published in the Barry & District News on Thursday, June 25, concerning the condition of Whitmore Bay and specifically the littering of the sand with glass.
Inaccuracies
9:00am Thursday 2nd July 2009
WHILST I welcome transparency and debate about MPs’ expenses, there were a number of inaccuracies in the article last week (June 25).
From Edmonton to Barry to...?
9:41am Thursday 25th June 2009
The London and South of England Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society has received notice, under the terms of its agreement with Barry Town Council, that the famous Regal Edmonton 4/16 Christie Theatre Organ has to be removed from the magnificent setting of Barry Memorial Hall.
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