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Homes on the way
WORK has started on the controversial Cogan Hall Farm development which could eventually see 400 new homes. Developers David Woolston have started phase one, which includes construction of 140 houses. Work - funded by the developers - has already been
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Murch bounce back after bad start to week
THE WEEK started badly for the men bowlers of the Murch when all four rinks tasted defeat in the Munro Cup match on the lush green of the Penarth Rectory Road club. The 19 shot defeat could have been worse for after the first five ends the difference
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Win tickets for Honk!
PENARTH performers will bring one of the world's favourite fairy tales to life at St Fagans next month - and you can be there for free. The Penarth Times has teamed up with Everyman Theatre company to offer five family tickets to Honk - a musical based
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Paint the town all colours
LET'S brighten up Penarth this summer - by making this year's Penarth in Bloom competition the best ever. Last year's event was a huge success, with more entries than ever before. But this year's looks set to be even better, with the Vale Council teaming
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Bank thanks
ON behalf of Barclays Bank Customer Services I would like to thank all who donated towards our Erw'r Delyn Playground Fund on Saturday, June 15, in Penarth Town Centre. Through your generosity we raised £320 towards our target of £15,000. We are holding
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DVD Review
PICTURE THIS: You're a recovering alcoholic cop forced to dry out in a place that made Alcatraz look friendly. Shortly after checking into the centre, you have to give up your gun and your badge and submit yourself to humiliating group discussions. That
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Penarth Memories
25 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS from the Penarth Times of June 24 1977: The new president of the Inner Wheel Club of Penarth, Mrs Gwen Yates was installed by retiring president Mrs Joan Miller at the annual general meeting. Police were called in following the mysterious
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Shock win a scream
A FORMER St Cyres pupil is celebrating a shock win after producing a television documentary about the world famous painting 'The Scream'. Judith Winnan, 36, of Cardiff Bay-based Fulmar Television and Film, received a prestigious award from the Royal Television
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Cinema Review
The Musketeer (PG) THE THREE Musketeers, the swashbuckling classic novel by Alexandre Dumas published 158 years ago, has had hundreds of screen adaptations worldwide since the birth of the cinema. But the new version by director and cinematographer Peter
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Winning young poets
PUPILS at Murch Junior School have been successful in a Young Writers' Hidden Treasures competition. Twenty youngsters from the school were successful in the event which attracted more than 70,000 entries. Their poems will be published in a book called
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One way is best way!
Penarth's one-way Esplanade - with its continental-style 'cafe quarter' - looks as if it's here to stay. Vale councillors were meeting last night to discuss the year-long one-way traffic experiment at the seafront and decide whether it should be made
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What's On
Events in and around Penarth this week THURSDAY Trinity Church Rooms, Woodland Place, Penarth. The Penarth Society meets, 7.30pm. St Augustine's Hall, Penarth. 8th Penarth Brownies meet term-time, 6-7.30pm. Girls aged seven to nine welcome. Telephone
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Move over, Harry!
A TALENTED Penarth author is hoping to give Harry Potter creator J K Rowling a run for her money. Janet Marsh, 58, of Coleridge Avenue, is launching into the children's market with her first novel, Free Play. Mrs Marsh, who taught English at St Cyres
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All in a name
THE JEWS, once known as the Israelites, were driven out of Jerusalem by the Romans in AD70. They then spread around the world, hoping one day to return to Israel. Two thousand years later, after the Holocaust, some Jews did return and founded the state
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Kidnap terror
A PENARTH woman has told how she came close to becoming a kidnap victim in Georgia, in the way that Welsh businessman Peter Shaw has. Jacqueline James, 49, of Grove Terrace, worked as a regional disability officer for Oxfam, covering Georgia, Armenia
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Penarth overpowered
PENARTH 1st XI made the short trip to Llanrumney on Saturday to face their big city neighbours Cardiff. It was always going to be a difficult task but with a tiny boundary on one side of the pitch and with Glamorgan's Keith Newell having an excellent
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Local teams set for finals
PENARTH and Sully teams shone in the Coca Cola Champions finals at the Buttrills, Field, Barry, last Sunday. More than 430 players from schools, football clubs and various youth organisations took part in the ground-breaking football tournament aimed
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Former football star dies, at 58
A PENARTH footballer who found soccer fame in South Africa has died, aged 58. Father-of-two Dave Jeffrey went to South Africa in 1966 to play football, after spells with Cardiff City and Bristol Rovers. A talented half-back, his finest sporting achievement
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Using Sully
IN RESPONSE to Mr Robin Williams' letter published this week regarding Sully Hospital : The hospital is considered unfit for human habitation by a large number of experts capable of judging these matters (this is not a surveyor's task but EHOs have to
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Parking idea
THE PARKING problem is becoming more acute, and continues to grow weekly, question any trader in the town centre, about their customers frustrations. Future economic growth will be seriously impaired when visitors attracted by the barrage will be appalled
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CD Review
CREAM Beach 2002 is a must for all you clubbers longing for the warm sands and hot nights of Majorca, Ibiza or Ayia Napa. This double CD includes chart toppers such as Ian van Dahl with 'Reason' and Missy Elliott's '4 My People' but has a few on there
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PM in a spin
ACCORDING to the 2002 edition of Who's Who, which I consulted in Penarth library a day or two ago, the entry for Black Rod (an entry which can be found under 'W' for Wilcocks, not 'B' or 'R' by the way) shows one of his interests as tennis. Coincidentally
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'Name the culprits'
PENARTH'S fly-tipping problem could be crushed if new plans from the Vale of Glamorgan Council succeed. The authority is urging locals to identify businesses and individuals responsible for fly-tipping and illegal waste activities. The call follows a
