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Extracts from the Barry and District News from 50 and 25 years ago
50 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS from the Barry and District News of February 12, 1953: BARRY'S Coronation Year Mayor and Mayoress will be Ald. Tom Yeoman and Coun. Mrs Yeoman, both Labour members of the town council. This will be the first occasion on which the
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Reward for return of rare machine
A BARRY building developer is offering a reward for the return of a valuable piece of machinery stolen last month. Sometime between 4.30pm on Thursday, January 23 and 7.30am on Friday, January 24, the Westbury Show Homes building site at St David's Wharf
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Keep tidy
IN REPLY to the letter from Mr Douglas about "Sea Walk", perhaps he should get his facts right. For his information the demonstration was a great success with excellent media coverage and more than a thousand signatures, a petition which is still going
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Route will link town with island
BARRY is full steam ahead on a £500,000 re-development that will see a circular walking route linking the town with the island. The project is funded by the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) and the local yacht club, plus £168,000 from Sportlot, the Lottery
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Survivor quits the limelight
DINAS Powys 'Survivor' Charlotte Hobrough has dramatically revealed she is quitting the glittering world of fame for property development. The former policewoman, who was catapulted into the limelight when she won ITV's reality show, spoke to Now magazine
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Indoor turf
IT WAS reported last week that another £500,000 is going to be given to the Vale of Glamorgan Heritage Railway, bringing the total spent on it to nearly £5 million. Will more money be required to build a shunt line at the Hood Road station if the Health
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Jo's loyal support honoured at Brynhill
THE LADIES Captain Mrs Pam Melvin announced at Brynhill Golf Club Ladies Section AGM, that the club has decided to confer an honorary membership on Mrs Jo Whitehouse in recognition of her many years of loyal support to the club and ladies section. Jo
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Book makes history
A BARRY-born writer has penned a book that is creating waves in the world of state-of-the-art wireless technology. Dean Anthony Gratton, 34, grew up in Montgomery Road. He went to High Street Primary and Barry Boys before graduating from Cardiff University
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Mother relieved
A GRIEVING Barry mother has spoken out about the loss of her only son after the coroner released a death certificate stating he died of natural causes. Former Cardiff Road resident Val Cambridge moved to Scotland after the death of her son Andrew, 25.
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CD review One by One by Foo Fighters
EACH time Foo Fighters bring a song into the British charts, it lingers for a while and then seems to disappear. This is not fair. It's selling short some seriously good talent. And the newest album from this crazy band makes that obvious. If anyone has
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Expensive game for Vale children
BARRY childrens' love of the 'beautiful game' can cost them dear in the Vale of Glamorgan. A a survey commissioned by the GMB union shows the local authority as the most expensive place to hire a football pitch in Wales. A game of soccer on a Saturday
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Cinema review Catch me if you can
With barely a hiccup in his career, Spielberg has directed some great films and his latest hit Minority Report proves that he can still do his job . For Catch Me If You Can he has teamed up with Leonard DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. The film is inspired by
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Take pride
I WALK here, I walk there, Rubbish is piled everywhere. On the pavement, on the street, in the lane, it's quite a pain. The countryside is just as sad, it looks and smells very bad. Can people no longer take pride? The distance to the council dump is
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What's on on and around Barry from Thursday February 13 to Wednesday February 19
Thursday Tynewydd Inn, Barry. Chat and coffee group meet at 1.30pm-3.30pm. Telephone 01446 743375 for information. Barry Memorial Hall, Barry. Learn to Meditate, 7.30pm-9pm. Locations around Barry. Valeways Easy Walking Scheme - for programme details
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Uncaring
I LEFT for my walk around The Knap at 10am on Monday last week, expecting that after all the recent coverage in the press, it would be free of dog mess. Silly me! Both pavements on the right hand side of Romilly Park Road and along Lakeside on my return
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Job facts
Regarding Jobcentre Plus services in the Vale. I am writing to correct some inaccuracies in the report you have received from Cllr Chris Franks of Plaid Cymru. We are not removing any services from Barry or Penarth. On the contrary Jobcentre Plus will
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Neglected
AS BARRY has grown in population to almost 50,000 inhabitants, standards have deteriorated in tandem with the growth of the town. The town's streets are never swept, bus shelters are falling to pieces and I believe are storage centres for cigarette ends
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My son's no yobbo
A VALE mother has defended her son who returned to school this week after shooting a teacher with a plastic pellet. Curita Forrest says eleven-year-old Geraint Pilcher is not a nasty boy and that the whole incident has been blown out of proportion. The
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No licence
Readers of local and regional papers like yourselves may have expressed recent concerns about the impact of the government's Licensing Bill on the future of live performances in churches. I am pleased to be able to tell you and your readers that, having
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DVD review Men in black 2
THEY'RE BACK! Mr Jones and Mr Smith put on the last suit they'll ever wear and take on the worst scum of the universe. At the end of the first MIB, Agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) was neuralyzed and his past re-constructed. It's a close call whether MIB 2
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Success of Community Chest Scheme is marked
THE OUTSTANDING success of a scheme which has seen more than £150,000 pumped into sport in the Vale of Glamorgan over the last four years has been marked at a special reception. The event was hosted by Vale Council chairman Cllr Harold Rees, who referred
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Look ahead
THE VALE of Glamorgan Council has won a national award for its role in protecting and preserving the Dock Offices as part of the built environment. No such accolade has been granted in respect of the Town Hall, which, unlike the Dock Offices has remained
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Unsociable
HOW interesting to read of Steve Hunt's concern for local skateboarders in last week's issue. How humble that the skateboarders don't complain about the skate park for fear it will be removed. How strange that the majority of skateboarders at the Knap
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Cup progress
BARRY TOWN 4, PONTARDAWE 1 (WELSH CUP) "IT WAS a potential banana skin, but we came through", said Barry skipper Jamie Moralee. "It was their cup final and they made life difficult, but I'm pleased that we came out on top." Moralee and the players were
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Police stormed into our home
A BARRY pensioner who suffers with chronic asthma and lung disease says he was left angry and shaken after police 'stormed' into his home. On Monday February 3 at 10.30am, sixty-eight year old William Dee was alarmed to hear loud knocking at the front
