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• Inspectors praise 'very good school'

  A PENARTH primary school celebrating its 35th anniversary has been praised by inspectors for serving its pupils and their community with distinction. read more

• Opinions

  SIR - I am going to meet my MP, John Smith at the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Campaigns & Advocacy Network's annual lobby of Parliament, the "Westminster Fly-In" and I want to take other readers' opinions with me to the meeting. read more

• Link walkway under threat

  THE HEADLAND Link walkway, seen by many as vital to Penarth's future economy, is under threat. read more

• Number of drink drivers falling

  PENARTH police are hailing this year's crackdown on drink drivers as a massive success after recording the lowest number of offences throughout the whole of the South Wales area. read more

• Mal's Memories

  DO YOU remember getting into childhood scrapes? read more

• Fury as vandals steal memorial

  THE FAMILY of a Dinas Powys schoolgirl killed by a train last November have described vandals who stole a plaque attached to an Oak Tree to commemorate her life as 'evil'. read more

• Penarth gymnasts floor the opposition

  GYMNASTS from Penarth Gym Club had a successful day at the Welsh Challenge Cup Championships. read more

• Hitting right note

  A PENARTH man has been able to establish himself as a professional musician thanks to a government scheme. read more

• Disgrace

  SIR - I attended the Labour Party Conference on behalf of the Countryside Alliance. The event cost us several thousand pounds for the chance to engage in meaningful debate with delegates and MPs. While there delegates accused me of being a paedophile, a pervert, child molester and a racist. Our stand was vandalised, defaced and on the third night was completely wrecked, inside what was supposedly the most secure area in the UK. When we complained to conference organisers we were told that we probably wouldn't be welcome next year due to the large number of complaints received - democracy in action? read more

• Fresh inquiry into boys's death

  THE DEATH of a Vale boy which launched a massive review of school transport throughout the whole area is to be reinvestigated by police. read more

• Cheque presented to hospice

  A CHEQUE for £220 - raised through a special raffle at the annual Vale of Glamorgan sports personality awards evening held earlier this year - has been presented to the local Ty Hafan Children's Hospice. read more

• Listings

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• Be a firefighter

  PENARTH firefighters are backing a national recruitment campaign. They visited the town's Jobcentre Plus as part of a campaign to boost the number of women and ethnic minority groups joining the South Wales Fire and Rescue service as full time firefighters. read more

• DVD Review - Taking Lives

  THE PLOT behind Taking Lives should mean the film is a spine-chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller. But sadly, it falls a bit flat. read more

• Positive

  IN ANSWER to the negative letters that have been submitted in the last few weeks about The Children's Society, I feel I should state a more positive side. read more

• Tribute to 'one of life's nice guys'

  TRIBUTES have been paid to a Penarth man who will be remembered as "one of life's truly nice guys." read more

• CD Review - Tom Jones & Jules Holland

  WHEN you bring together two immensely talented individuals and tell them to make music, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a success. And Tom Jones' collaboration with Jools Holland is just the proof you need to give this theory credibility. read more

• Deluded

  I READ Thought for the week and found it extremely interesting. I think Timothy is very arrogant about humanity, which is "created" by sexual intercourse. There is no "high faluting" reason for its existence: we are no more important that a dog or cat or bird. Only our egoism tells us differently. read more

• Bitterness after post box is axed

  FURIOUS Penarth residents have slammed the Royal Mail, after their post box was removed without notification. read more

• Depleted Old Boys beaten

  ON A day when rugby football was forced to play second fiddle to its round ball rival, Old Penarthians found themselves unable to field more than one side when too many players succumbed to the temptation of television and opted to support Wales' abortive attempts rather than fulfil the fixture away to Caldicot Seconds that had been arranged by fixture secretary Peter Goodfellow. read more

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