EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of May 2, 1963:

* Mrs H E Evans is the first member of the Brynhill Golf Club to be chosen to play for the Glamorgan County team, after reaching the semi-final of the Glamorgan championship.

* The Freedom from Hunger Campaign continues to make rapid progress and is now less than £70 short of the £1,000 mark.

* One of the big events for the ports on the Great Lakes of America is the annual race by foreign ships to get through the ice and land at one of the ports. This year the race to the port of Milwaukee in the State of Wisconsin, USA, was won by a Dutch ship, the captain of which is the husband of a Barry woman. He is Captain J C Ladde, who married Peggy Tyley, daughter of Mr B Tyley of Ruthin Terrace, Barry.

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of April 28, 1988:

* Barry Police have been blamed for causing some of the rowdiness and vandalism in the town by adopting what the Barry and Penarth Communist Party consider to be a ‘confrontationist’ policy.

* Five times Barry schoolteacher Duncan John was thwarted in his plans to run the London Marathon. But this year it was sixth time lucky for the 37-year-old Holton Road Junior School teacher who finished the famous race in a respectable four hours and 25 minutes.

* A blunt warning that Barry stood to lose job prospects and training places unless development space was found for small and medium-size industrial companies, has been given to Vale councillors.