Extracts from the Penarth Times25 and 10 years ago (From Penarth Times)

Extracts from the Penarth Times25 and 10 years ago

25 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Penarth Times of December 23, 1977:

The Penarth branch of Plaid Cymru called for an immediate investigation into the road safety conditions at Redlands Road, Penarth.

The full Vale Council on Monday referred back to the Planning Committee's decision granting permission for a three-storey extension to a doctor's surgery in Penarth.

Mr David Benger BA, who had been headmaster of Headlands School, Penarth, since 1965, was retiring on December 31.

Nine-year-old Ross Flanigan, of Shakespeare Avenue, Penarth, received Penarth's Sea Angling Oxford Challenge Trophy for the season's heaviest catch by a junior, from angling columnist Roddy Line. Ross landed a 1lb six-and-three-quarter Oz codling.

Stanwell School pupil Paul Loveless had a fine win in the semi-finals of the National Boys Clubs Boxing Championships at Nottingham last Saturday.

10 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Penarth Times of December 23, 1992:

A beacon will be lit on Penarth Cliff Top at midnight on New Year's Eve, as part of a chain of fires to mark a historic moment in European history.

A town councillor had called on the Vale Council to look again at the need to provide recycling facilities in Penarth.

BBC Wales celebrity Roy Noble visited Evenlode Primary School, Penarth, recently to collect a cheque for £220 from the pupils for the 'Children in Need' appeal.

A Christmas poem by Mrs Doreen Petherick Cox, of Laburnam Way, Penarth, is to be broadcast on Touch AM, at 7pm on Christmas Eve.

Penarth Salvation Army Corps have distributed nearly 500 presents via the Social Services to children in the surrounding area in time for Christmas.

Christmas came early for children in Llandough Hospital, when staff from Dow Corning, Barry, made a visit and brought along Father Christmas. Accompanied by two clowns, Father Christmas had a present for all the children and afterwards a party was held on each of the wards where Santa tasted his favourite snack, mince pies.