EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of March 28, 1963:

* Though the plans submitted by Mr Billy Butlin, on which the Ministry of Housing and Local Government is holding an inquiry next Wednesday, show that the boundary of the proposed camp at Barry Island is to be at low level, there seems to be a change of heart by Mr Butlin . . . possibly in response to pleas from local anglers.

* Barry Town Council at its meeting on Monday reversed a decision carried at its last meeting in favour of fluoridation of its water supply.

* Heartening news this week so far as the future of Barry Docks is concerned. First there was the emphatic opinion of Sir Arthur Kirby, chairman of the British Transport Aboard, who inspected the docks on Friday, that there should be traffic enough as industry developed in South Wales to "keep a port like Barry open and prosperous."

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of March 24, 1988:

* Barry Police and local residents’ associations were today (Thursday) objecting to the renewal of 2am licenses for 11 night spots and licensed premises, including restaurants, at Barry Island and the Broad Street/High Street area of the town. The shock move was being made at a meeting of the Vale Council’s public entertainments licensing sub-committee and comes after a mounting barrage of complaints from Barry residents and traders about late night vandalism.

* A £200,000 facelift for Barry’s town shopping centre has been promised during the financial year starting on April 1 and it will cost Vale ratepayers only £50,000.

* Gladstone Road Primary School pupils Leighton Lewis and Fay Stanger presented a cheque for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to Campbell Morgans, honorary secretary of the Barry Dock Lifeboat Station.