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Cinema review Jackass: The movie
POSSIBLY the most controversial and extreme show is the latest to go from MTV to the silver screen. Jackass: The Movie has promised to give audiences something that they've never seen before, but whether or not they were successful isn't yet certain!
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Barry youngsters win final official game on high note
ON Sunday, March 9, Barry under nines played their last game on the official Cardiff and Vale Calendar and came away with a win against Glamorgan Wanderers. The remainder of the season will now be spent playing friendlies and catching up on postponed
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Littered !
TODAY having parked my car in the Wyndham Street car park in Barry, I am, again appalled at the amount of rubbish which is allowed to pile up along the fence overlooking Central Park. This is no reflection on the long suffering people who live there,
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Black day
WHAT will you British do now when what is happening is so obviously turning into a major crime and a humanitarian disaster? Put Tony Blair in prison? Britain is just as wrong invading Iraq as Germany was when it invaded Poland. Germany had no legal right
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Witchell win Dockers Cup
SEA VIEW 1, WITCHILL 2 BOTH SIDES made a good start in the Dockers Cup Final at Jenner Park, with a strong battle for dominance in midfield. The breakthrough came when a mistake by the Witchill defence led to an own goal that put Sea View in front. Man
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'Baby sis' is on front line
A BARRY woman finally heard from her 'baby' sister for the first time since the Iraq war began. Sheree James' younger sibling Bethany Andrews, a sergeant in the medical corps, has been stationed in the Gulf for eight weeks. But it was only yesterday,
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Searching
I REQUEST your help in tracing a very old friend of mine, his name is Anthony Royston Quinn. Tony and I worked together and were in a rock and roll group in 1958. The last time I saw him was in Barry town about 20 years ago. I have contacted his last
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Extracts from the Barry and District News from 50 and 25 years ago
50 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of April 2, 1953: On Monday, March 6, 500 Boy Scouts and Cubs from seven or eight troops in the Barry area will sally forth on their "bob-a-job" week for the fifth spring in succession. Miss Elain
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Law-breaking play hits home
BARRY children witnessed the stark realities of breaking the law in a new approach to tackling crime. An education project, using a theatre group performing a play called The Crime Of Your Life, aims to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour. On Friday
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Doggy do's and don'ts
THE VALE of Glamorgan Council is trying to collar youngsters as part of its bid to promote responsible dog ownership. As part of a partnership initiative between the Council's environmental health team and voluntary organisation 'Pets as Therapy,' talks
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Tribute
I AM writing this letter regarding the Requiem Mass held at St Mary's Church Holton Road, on March 24, of a dear lady Barbara Smith. I attended the service, but there was a large crowd and as the hall had been filled, almost a hundred people were obliged
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One proves enough
CAERSWS 0, BARRY TOWN 1 IN a game of two halves Barry enjoyed the lions share of the first half, playing fluent football which had Micky Evans men reeling. To be fair to Caersws they are a determined bunch and they had Barry under the cosh in the second
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Square will be fit for a King
THE VALE of Glamorgan Council have revealed in full their ambitious plans for Barry's derelict King Square site. Funded by the local authority to a cost of £7.5m over the next two years, the scheme will provide a new state-of-the-art central library for
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DVD review XXX with Vin Diesel
THE MOVIE-makers should definitely have come up with a better title for this flick, as 'XXX' doesn't even begin to do it justice. This film has a bit of a high-tech James Bond-type plot. The hero of the story is Vin Diesel, who plays the thrill-seeking
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CD review Come away with me by Norah Jones
THERE IS just a chance - a slim one - that you have not heard of Brit Award winner Norah Jones. It cannot be said that this woman has exploded onto the music scene, because her sound is too gentle for that. But she is destined to make a real mark on the
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Dump is discusting
A BARRY builder is disgusted at the service provided by the town's dumping site. Coldbrook Road resident Ceri Rowlands uses the civic amenity depot on Hayes Road regularly but says the regulations are ridiculous. The sixty-year old told the News: "The
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Don't fight
IMAGINE two people living in the Vale who organise an illegal dog fight to the death. Would we stand around cheering the dogs on because the fight has already started, would either dog thank us for our cheering loyalty? Or would we do what we could to
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What's on in and around Barry from Thursday April 3 to Wednesday April 9
Thursday Castle Hotel, Barry. Electric Open Mic Night £2.50. Tynewydd Inn, Barry. Chat and coffee group meet at 1.30pm-3.30pm. 01446 743375 for information. Barry Memorial Hall, Barry. Learn to Meditate, 7.30pm-9pm. Locations around Barry. Valeways Easy
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Nowhere lef to play
BARRY children are being deprived of safe places to play due to a vicious circle of vandalism. Labour councillor Rob Curtis has blasted youths who destroy the town's parks, forcing them to close - only to return when they are repaired to wreck them once
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New homes 'will destroy village'
CAMPAIGNING Rhoose residents have given the Vale of Glamorgan Council 2,000 objections to development plans in the village. Led by Paul Davenport of Fontygary, locals are fighting proposals to build an initial 200 houses at Rhoose Point, followed by 600
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Good news
GOOD news came in the Barry and District on March 20. I refer, of course, to the item on page seven, in which it was reported that Vale AM Jane Hutt and Environment Minister Sue Essex have, at long last, publicly recognised that dog fouling is a 'Messy
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Show support with a ribbon
A BARRY teacher is urging News readers to back our boys and girls in the Gulf. Romilly Road resident Angela Edwards is spear-heading a local campaign aimed at getting get the community behind British troops fighting in Iraq. She is hoping to persuade
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War lies
I AM amazed, after three days of showing a small number of Iraqi prisoners of War, men that had their hands clasped together with plastic ties, face down in the mud which is inhuman and degrading, that the coalition forces claimed that the Iraqi were
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Too old to play with old boys
A HEARTBROKEN Barry soccer player has been told that she is too old to play for her team - just because she is a girl. Eleven-year old Sophie Ingle is the best player in the Sea View Under-11s mixed-sex team. The Brook Street striker was voted Player
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Shoppers' dream or a nightmare?
A VALE man has launched a campaign against the long-standing traffic problems at Culverhouse Cross. Russell Godfrey, of Brooklands Terrace, is furious that yet another store is to be built at the site, worsening the gridlock. In protest at Burger King
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Against war
IT worries me that so many people seem to identify support for our troops with support for war. A little reflection will show that the two are definitely not the same thing. We can support the troops whilst opposing the war. Supporting the troops means
