Archive
-
Date
Five tries seal impressive win for Sports over old rivals
SULLY SPORTS 27 ST PETERS 14 SULLY Sports got their season back on track with a comprehensive victory over old rivals St Peters, running in five well-worked tries to two, and only in the goal kicking did they suffer. This was achieved even though they
-
Date
Local woman makes move for peace
AM Lorraine Barrett has thrown her support behind a United Nations Day of Peace initiative organised by a woman from Penarth to be held in Cardiff next week. The "Peace Now!" event, to be held at the Temple of Peace on Edward VII Avenue in Cathays at
-
Date
Life coach teaches career lessons on TV
A SULLY woman was invited onto the GMTV couch with Lorraine Kelly this week to tell the nation how she has turned people's lives around in her job as a life coach. Melanie Squire, 40, who works for Cardiff-based firm the Purple Hat, explained the methods
-
Date
Carlo kicks off birthday party
CARLO Rizzi will kick off the Welsh National Opera's 60th birthday celebrations on Saturday conducting his favourite opera - Verdi's Don Carlos. Carlo, who lives in Penarth, has just extended his tenure as Musical Director of the WNO until the end of
-
Date
What's on in and around Penarth
Thursday * Plassey Street Gospel Hall. Coffee morning 10.15am. * The Pilot, Penarth. Euchre Competition, 7pm. *St Andrews Major Primary School, Dinas Powys. Aerobics Class 6pm-7pm 3 sess. Tel Charlotte 07870630096. *Salvation Army, Plassey Street. Mums
-
Date
Something to shout about for Seasiders
THERE was a time (and not so long ago) when the Seasiders would have been seriously rattled by the visit of such a vocal and aggressive bunch as Penygraig, but not any more. Within minutes of the kick-off, a move, starting with a James Crothers counter
-
Date
Goalkeeper shuts out Dinas attack
DINAS POWYS 0 PORT TALBOT 2 THIS Welsh Cup first round match was always going to be a difficult game for Dinas, who faced Welsh Premier League side Port Talbot last Saturday. The home side battled well against a physically strong team and the goal-scoring
-
Date
Umpires make light work of Sully win bid
SULLY Centurions league season finished in the most bizarre fashion at Usk last Saturday, when after completing 97 overs in fading light, with only three overs remaining and the result not in doubt, the umpires decided to call the game off for bad light
-
Date
The dancer and the hero
ONE of the most celebrated Britons to have fought in the Second World War married a dancer from Penarth and spent the evening celebrating at a golf club in Penarth when news arrived that he was to be awarded the Victoria Cross. Wingcommander Guy Gibson
-
Date
Top journalist still enjoys a sporting life
ONE of Britain"s leading sports writers, who now lives in Penarth, is showing no signs of letting up after a glittering 40-year career on Fleet Street. Peter Corrigan, 70, chief sports columnist for the Independent and former sports editor of the Observer
-
Date
Hundreds to make cycle trip to Poland
The MARIE Curie Hospice in Penarth has announced its most ambitious fundraising event ever - The Great 500. 500 cyclists will make a spectacular entrance together into Polish capital Warsaw next September, from one of five routes that cycle across Poland
-
Date
Council to spend £1m on Dyffryn
THE VALE Council's Cabinet has agreed to spend around 1m on improvement works at Dyffryn House. A range of repair and refurbishment work had been identified for the Grade II listed house but delayed until the clarification of a number of legal issues.
