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Three horse race for Welsh Premier
WELSHPOOL 0, BARRY TOWN 4 BARRY dismissed the challenge of league newcomers Welshpool with three goals in the first half. Really it was no contest because Barry were in total control. Barry simply have to win every game if they are going to retain the
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Search for good Samaritan
A GRATEFUL Barry mum wants to trace the good Samaritan who rushed to help her son last week. Joanne Tipton is looking for the kind-hearted local who sprung into action when 10-year-old Adam was knocked off his bike on Sunday, March 16. Not only did a
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Coaching qualifications
BARRY Town Football Club players are reaping the rewards of their enthusiastic efforts to improving individual coaching qualifications. Fourteen first team players have been successful in the Football Association of Wales Trust Goalkeeper's Award course
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'Back to normal'
BARRY policeman Mark Hobrough has been cleared of a sex attack on a female colleague. Sergeant Mark Hobrough, the husband of Survivor winner Charlotte, was accused of indecent assault on an off-duty WPc by groping her in a nightclub. But a jury of seven
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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 March 26, 1953: D E Morris, Barry, a member of Cardiff University, took part in the Welsh Five-mile Junior Road Walk Championship, which started from the Temple Street, YMCA, Newport, on Saturday
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Call 'was accidental'
FORMER Sully woman Diana Ingram, the wife of the Army major accused of cheating his way to the jackpot on ITV's Who wants to Millionaire? has taken the stand. She has told Southwark Crown Court how watched in disbelief from the studio audience as her
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Road risk
LIVES OF man and beast are being put at risk unnecessarily by speeding. This is particularly true of inconsiderate and abusive drivers travelling along country lanes within the Penarth, Dinas Powys and Sully areas. A mechanical vehicle is an inanimate
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Not on foot
I'M always disgusted when I see the mess and dangers that fly tipping causes. But is it really any surprise it happens, when you are turned away from the local refuse amenity for not having a vehicle? Don't get me wrong I'm not condoning fly tipping,
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DVD review The Bourne Identity
THE BOURNE Identity, starring Matt Damon and Franka Potente, is based very loosely on the Robert Ludlum novel. Jason Bourne's (Damon) wounded body is dragged out of the Mediterranean Sea by fisherman. Riddled with bullets and with a weird capsule buried
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Save churches from collapse
TWO of Barry's oldest and most picturesque churches could soon fall apart unless vital cash is found to save them from crumbling to the ground. Merthyr Dyfan, at the Colcot and St Paul's at High Street, need £53,000 worth of urgent repair work to shore
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'Memo' no
MEMBERS of the Barry Branch of the Royal British Legion have been concerned for some time at the use of the nickname "The Memo" on signs and stationery advertising the Barry Memorial Hall. While we realise that many people use the nickname in conversation
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Jailed father's freedom hopes
A DINAS Powys man, jailed for 12 years for physical and sexual abuse on young boys, hopes to soon be freed. Derek Brushett, of Stacy Road, who has always maintained his innocence, is hopeful that the release of two prisoners convicted of similar charges
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France oui
SIR - BLAIR and his ministers are blaming France and the French President because they did not have it all their own way. In reality we should be saluting Mr Chirac and the French, for they had the foresight to see that the world would be an even more
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CD review Reason Melenie C
THIS IS Melanie C's second solo album, and she sounds better than ever. Following Northern Star, Reason is well put together, with excellent vocals, soothing harmonies and catchy lyrics. She has already released Here It Comes Again from the CD, which
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Airport win Junior Cup final
CARDIFF AIRPORT B 2, PENARTH SAINTS 1 FOLLOWING a hard earned 2-0 victory over Pro-Gas in the semi-final, Cardiff Airport met Penarth Saints in the final of the Barry Junior Cup at Jenner Park last Sunday. After a brisk start by both sides Page was sent
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Anniversary
VALE Police are celebrating the 4th anniversary of the Community and Race Relations Advisory Group. The aims of the group are to monitor quality of service to the visible minority ethnic communities and other minority and vulnerable groups of South Wales
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Cinema review Maid in Manhatton
DESPITE being a fans' favourite the world over, whether because of her films, music or backside, Jennifer Lopez is one of those actresses often bullied by the critics. Fair enough, Anaconda isn't exactly memorable for the right reasons, but she has proved
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Gran fears for Gulf soldier, 19
A BARRY Nan is deeply worried about her teenage grandson who has been sent to fight in the Gulf - just months after his mother died. Bonnie Bellamy of Coldbrook Road East is angry that 19-year-old Gareth Jones is on the frontline despite losing his mum
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Speeding
EIGHTEEN months ago I went to one of those so called council meetings, at the YMCA in Court Road Barry. There were four councillors on duty. I expressed my feelings on vehicles speeding up and down Holton Road Weston Hill. Thirty mph is a joke the average
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Give her a medal !
JUST a few weeks until the closing date and one of the town's biggest and brightest competitions is in full swing. Nominations for the Barry Citizen of the Year, which looks for unsung heroes, are flooding in. This week disabled pensioner Sylvia Roberts
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What's on in and around Barry from Thursday March 27 to Wednesday April 2
Thursday The Resource Centre, College Fields Close, Barry. Fashion Show and Sale by Connaught Blitz, 7.30pm, admission £1.50 includes refreshments. Tynewydd Inn, Barry. Chat and coffee group meet at 1.30pm-3.30pm. Telephone 01446 743375 for information
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Runway
AS a local councillor, I would like to draw the attention of residents of Rhoose to the fact the runway at Cardiff International Airport has been earmarked for essential maintenance work. Scheduled to take placed between 12.30am and 7am each night from
