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• Old Pens enjoy tour game

  WITH just three league fixtures remaining before a disastrous season is finally put to bed, Old Penarthians took advantage of a free weekend to undertake a brief tour of the West Country, basing themselves at Newquay and undertaking just the one fixture at nearby Perranporth - rather than Polperro, as erroneously indicated by this correspondent in last week's report. read more

• Legal woes

  I READ the article 'Legal Challenge Fails' (Penarth Times, April 6) with a mixture of sadness and dismay. read more

• Nursery puts health on menu

  A PENARTH nursery says it is only too pleased to sign up to Jamie Oliver's healthy eating programme. read more

• Cemetery

  I WOULD like to raise the problem of Penarth cemetery again. read more

• Hard work earns prize for student

  A STUDENT from Penarth has won a prestigious Engineering Leadership Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering. read more

• Salsa night

  THANK you so much for choosing my entry to win tickets for Salsa Celtica at the Memorial Hall, Barry last Saturday. read more

• Facing Prison?

  A PENARTH jeweller is facing jail after being found guilty of fleecing customers, friends and family out of thousands of pounds - adding to his list of previous convictions for forgery and deception. read more

• What's on this week in and around Penarth

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• So much hangs on this last match...

  NO-ONE can deny it's been an interesting season again, but after 21 league fixtures and a couple of cup ties, incredibly everything hinges on the last match. read more

• Cycle bridge

  WHAT good news it was to hear our councillors give their full support to the construction of a pedestrian/cycle bridge over the River Ely at the local "State of the Area" meeting. read more

• 'Our design will be in keeping'

  THE DEVELOPER who has submitted plans to build 24 apartments on Plymouth Road has hit back at critics of his scheme. read more

• The Invisible dentist queue

  THE article about the ending of NHS dental facilities at a local dental practice (Queuing up to Register, Penarth Times, March) said nothing about the people who suddenly found themselves without dental treatment, yet who cannot afford to buy it privately. read more

• Dinas do the double over tough opponents

  DINAS POWYS 1 read more

• Hi-tech lifeboat sets sail

  TENBY'S new Tamar class RNLI lifeboat, the first in the UK to be allocated to a lifeboat station, sailed into Cardiff Bay on Thursday to the delight of onlookers. read more

• Winners prepare to be cchampions of the furture

  DANIEL Dyer and Ryan Thomson of Penarth ABC both reached the Welsh ABA Boxing finals on April 3, with both fighters putting on a great performance and winning a Welsh title each. read more

• Child molesting coach has sentence reduced

  A SWIMMING coach who molested a schoolgirl and gave her hush-money to buy her silence had his sentence slashed by Appeal Court judges. read more

• Change of fixture, same success rate.

  Wellington Colts 8 read more

• Trusts find for crew's tragic error

  TWO health trusts must pay more than £45,000 after a frail Penarth woman died in hospital weeks after an ambulance dropped her off at the wrong address. read more

• Rugby pitch blunder

  A PENARTH Rugby Club official is calling for better communication between the town's clubs and the council following what he calls the authority's "heavy-handed blundering" over the resurfacing of a pitch. read more

• Owner: Why did Mary head off alone?

  THE devastated owners of a donkey that was killed when it collided with a taxi suspect the animal may have been purposely led out of its field. read more

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