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Hosgood double keeps Dinas high-flyers clear at the top
DINAS Powys started last Saturday"s Welsh League Division 1 game without injured centre half Kurt Bettles, against Afan Lido who were relegated from the Welsh Premier League last season - but kept most of their Premier League players. The visitors began
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Coachs comments best not printed in a family paper!
IT MAY well have been just a friendly fixture but, for Old Penar-thians coach Tony Vagges, the performance of his first team away to Bryn-cethin last Saturday was totally unacceptable. The promise of the early games was dissipated in the space of an appalling
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Great start for the Bears
PENARTH V WALCOUNTIAN BLUES IN their first game of the season, at Old Walcountians Sports Club, London on October 1, under the new-look South of England Premiership, Penarth Bears Lacrosse pulled off a narrow victory against the Walcountian Blues of London
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A Welsh landmark
PENARTH Assembly Member Lorraine Barrett gave the Penarth Times a guided tour of the new National Assembly for Wales building this week - to provide a "sneak preview" look at the interior of the spectacular Richard Rogers design. The 41 million landmark
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Embark upon summit adventure for charity
MARIE Curie Hospice, Penarth, has just announced that their third Snowdon Mountain Challenge takes place on Sunday, June 25, 2006. And the challenge offers those taking part an opportunity to experience a real adventure while raising vital funds for a
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Jackie's life hits the high notes!
A 62-year-old electric guitar-playing housewife from Penarth is off on a "musical spending spree" after scooping £100,000 on a National Lottery scratchcard. But Jackie Rudd"s win at the post office on Windsor Road nearly didn"t happen - because of the
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Youngsters party to raise funds for Trust
TEENAGERS from Penarth and Dinas Powys clubbed together to help raise money for a pioneering teenage cancer unit in Cardiff. Members of the Catholic Youth Forum of St Mary's Church, Dinas Powys, and St Joseph's, Penarth, decided they wanted to do something
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Jem set for Welsh stage
PENARTH chart-topper Jem, who has been nominated for a prestigious Q Award, will play her first gig in her native South Wales next month. The former Evenlode Primary pupil and Stanwell sixth-former will perform at Cardiff University on November 29 as
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Tower plans are blasted by Plaid CymruHead
PLAID Cymru has slammed plans to increase residential development at the Cardiff Bay Sports Village, a move they claim will bring misery to commuters from Penarth, Dinas Powys and the Vale. Plaid Cymru Penarth press officer Alwyn Evans has blasted a Cardiff
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Cruel attack
PENARTH police are appealing for witnesses after a wheelchair-bound man who suffers from cerebral palsy was attacked by young thugs on his way home from church. Des James, aged 57, was returning from a service at All Saints in Victoria Square, Penarth
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Young Dragons Ninian Park date
SULLY Dragons U11s and friends from other Sully U11 teams took part in an hour-long training session with ex-Cardiff City and Wales star Scott Young, prior to Cardiff City's game with Leicester City at Ninian Park. They then provided the half-time entertainment
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Seasiders win again, but tougher times may be ahead
THE SEASIDERS completed their latest win over Dowlais and extended their winning run at the start of this season to five games. But the storm clouds are gathering as the other contenders begin to flex their muscles. Taff's Well, in particular, are getting
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Rangers no match for Cogan, who are boosted by returning players
COGAN faced a stern challenge against Macron Welsh League Youth Division outfit Ely Rangers, in the Football Association of Wales Youth Cup 1st Round. With Cogan winning their opening five games of the current season, they were quietly confident of creating
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Facing the future
PENARTH-BASED charity Faceup is close to securing a new care centre in Cardiff. The charity is finalising an agreement on a new premises in Llanishen which it hopes will open next January. Faceup - the oral and facial cancer foundation Cymru - will use
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Welsh-language nursery opens
A 5,000 National Lottery grant has helped a Penarth group to set up a new Welsh-speaking nursery in the town. The Cylch Meithrin Bethel nursery, situated in the newly rebuilt Bethel Chapel in Plassey Street, was officially opened last week by the Town
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Fraudster who pocketed benefits gets two months
A BENEFIT fraudster from Penarth is starting a two-month jail sentence this week after pocketing more than 850 of public money. Alison Dondera, aged 45, of Labernum Way, was found guilty of four counts of defrauding the system from May 2003 to December
