Barry Island Pleasure Park
The fairground on Barry Island is, apart from the glorious sandy beach, the biggest asset as a tourist attraction that Barry has.However, the fairground as we know it is under threat.Since being...
View ArticleBarry Town Action Plan Response
The consultation plan on the draft Barry Town Action Plan finished recently, and I was glad to once again be able offer feedback on ideas put forward by the Barry Town Survey Steering Group.The...
View ArticleVale Council finally end leisure centre sunbeds
I was glad to hear that the Vale Council has decided to end the use of sunbeds in the council’s leisure centres. They are the last council in South Wales to make that decision – not exactly a badge of...
View ArticleConferences and Something For The Weekend
September is conference season, so what with preparing, delivering and recovering from different conferences, that’s been my month so far!A fortnight ago we had the highly successful Plaid Cymru...
View ArticleGetting better?
Park Crescent, the row of around 30 shops between Romilly schools and All Saints Church in Barry's west end, is an area that was clearly suffering the effects of the recession when I was last there,...
View ArticleWorld War II Exhibition
I had the pleasure on Saturday of visiting Dr Jonathan Hicks’ Barry and World War II exhibition in the Arts Central space at the Town Hall.It was a detailed, poignant and, 60 years after the beginning...
View ArticleJoy of the J-Lo-Mos
A few months ago, Plaid Cymru argued with the Welsh media that the UK Government’s bail out plans were fashioned to support London and the south-east of England by helping the financial sector but...
View ArticleHarman International
I was disappointed to hear over the weekend of the proposed closure of the Harman International factory in Bridgend, who make and fit car audio systems.Due to various forms of inward investment, some...
View ArticleNo Local Voices on St Athan
I was disappointed at hearing the quality of debate in the Vale of Glamorgan’s Planning Committee recent approval of the plans for St Athan’s Defence Training College.Just two councillors spoke on the...
View ArticleBarry Waterfront Plans
The plans for Barry Waterfront were considered by Barry Town Council earlier this week - including plans for around 2,000 housing units.Recommendations passed by the Town Council included a return to...
View ArticleBringing Gareth Jones Home
Last week saw the launch of a new display at Cambridge's Wren Library of the diaries of Gareth Jones, a Barry-born journalist with an international reputation.He was the son of Major Edgar Jones, the...
View ArticleBryneithin Decision Today
While other events today such as the Queen’s Speech and the release of the All-Wales Convention Report on the need for a referendum might be the big issue of the day for many, my thoughts will be...
View ArticleTHIRD PARTY REPRESENTATION AT PLANNING
One of our ongoing campaigns in the Vale of Glamorgan is to ensure that local residents, or at least community councillors and representatives of groups, should be allowed to speak at Vale County...
View ArticleGavin and Stacey are back!
So, only a couple of hours to go before the new series of Gavin and Stacey begins!(If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's a quick round-up)I'm sure that anyone reading this will know that...
View ArticleHain and the Barnett Formula
Discussion of Peter Hain’s statement on the Barnett Formula on Thursday has generally been confused due to a distinct lack of clarity from Hain himself.It is clear that briefings given to both the...
View ArticleDinas Powys Autumn Fayre
Went to a well-attended Dinas Powys Autumn Fayre last night where various stalls wrapped their way around the Square.The Plaid stand, manned at various points by almost all of our 13 councillors in the...
View ArticleGareth Jones Film to be screened in Cardiff
I’ve previously written about Barry-born journalist Gareth Jones, whose diaries on the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, the Holodomor, were the first bylined articles to raise the story in the Western...
View ArticleTen years of Labour v Ten weeks of Plaid
This week saw Barry named the seventh Strategic Regeneration Area in Wales, with Plaid’s Jocelyn Davies AM, Deputy Minister for Housing and Regeneration coming to Barry on St David’s Day to do the...
View ArticleYsgol Gwynfor?
Last week I was proud to be one of the guests at the unveiling of a bust of Barry-boy Gwynfor Evans, the first ever Plaid Cymru MP, pacifist and language campaigner.The bust was the brainchild of Ysgol...
View ArticleKeeping Bryneithin Open
I was at Bryneithin Home’s Easter Party last night (with Derek playing harmonica as the entertainment). Although the home is not closing immediately, as initially expected, due to clauses in the...
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