ON behalf of NHS UK Transplant, I"d like to say a huge thank you to all your readers who have pledged to help others to live after their death. Six months ago, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the NHS Organ Donor Register, we launched a nationwide
I WAS fascinated by Ian Bebb"s report in last week"s Penarth Times, "Home Opposition", giving details of Cllr Ernest"s objections to the granting of Change of Use planning consent to that of a new nursing home facility proposed for Wentworth in Bradford
WITH regard to the "public scandal" accusation from Vale Councillor Tony Williams (Penarth Times, March 31). What"s so scandalous about the Vale Council"s Unitary Develop-ment Plan? Certainly not, as Cllr Tony Williams makes out, the Welsh minister"s
Old Penarthians 0 - South Wales Police 55 THE sun shone brightly at Cwrt y Vil last Saturday - but it was a dark day for hosts Old Penarthians who suffered their worst defeat of the season. Opponents South Wales Police ran in eight tries without reply
Dinas Powys FC U14s 6 - St Athan 1 THE mystery continues as to how the boys can produce such huge variations in performance within the same game, let alone from one game to the next. Yet that was the story again as Dinas produced one of their worst 35
DO you remember the old paddle steamers which were part of P&A Campbell's famous White Funnel Fleet? When I was a boy my parents bought season tickets every year and we sailed to ports of call all round the Bristol Channel. I particularly remember
AN animated film part-written by a Penarth musician has smashed box office records in Germany and knocked a Hollywood blockbuster off the top in the process. Danny Chang, of Nutopia Chang in Briarbank Studios, wrote all of the music for the film The Adventures
A PROCESS which could see Penarth Pier pavilion transformed into a cinema, restaurant, state-of-the-art leisure facility or festival complex is now under way. The Vale of Glamorgan Council has invited private-sector companies and groups to outline projects
ANTE-NATAL classes have been stopped at Llandough Hospital due to a shortage of midwives. The classes, attended by the majority of expectant mums - and many dads - explain the birth process and the early days after birth. The lessons, which have also
I AM writing concerning the global week of action that is planned for April 10 to 16, as part of the Make Poverty History campaign. More than ten million people from thousands of organisations are taking part and everyone can be involved. I was shocked
I HAVE just come back from a most enjoyable evening, spent watching Stanwell School"s production of Jesus Christ Superstar. What a triumph! The children, both on stage and in the orchestra pit, were a credit to the teaching staff at the school. However
THURSDAY - Trinity Community Centre, Woodland Place, Penarth. Penarth & District Stroke Support Group meet 5.30pm. St Cyres, Dinas Powis. Tai Chi Chuan, 6.30pm-8pm. Plassey Street Gospel Hall, Penarth. Coffee morning 10.15am. Salvation Army, Plassey
ELEVEN-year old Ben Harding is through to the Welsh Amateur Boxing finals after a brilliant performance in the semis, stopping N Williams of Splott ABC in the second round. This is Ben's first Welsh championship and he was suffering with nerves, thinking
Hitchin 7 - Penarth 13 PENARTH travelled the four hours to Hertfordshire to play Division One's form team and came away with a memorable victory. The win - against all the odds - secured Penarth second place in Division Two and ensured the season ended
LLANTWIT MAJOR 16 - PENARTH 15 THE Boverton Road ground in Llantwit didn't look much like a banana skin last Saturday, still less a graveyard of promotion ambitions. However, at the end of 80 minutes it bore all the hallmarks of both, as Penarth looked
LOCAL community and voluntary organisations have received cash in the latest round of grants from the Vale of Glamorgan Council. Council leader Cllr Jeffrey James was joined by Deputy Leader Cllr Tony Williams and Cabinet colleagues John Thomas (Housing
ACCORDING to Oxfam, some two million children have been killed in wars in the last ten years. On Maundy Thursday, the Penarth Christian Network of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade arranged a service of prayer outside the BAE Systems weapons factory
A PENARTH park which has its own'tireless' Friends organisation has won national recognition for its outstanding quality. Belle Vue Park has been awarded a coveted Green Flag Award under a scheme managed by the Civic Trust and supported by the Countryside
A CHARITY football match will be played in memory of a 16-year-old St Cyres pupil who died in a car crash. Kyle John Smith, from Wenvoe, was a popular teenager and the tributes poured in after his death in February. He died after the car he was travelling
PENARTH residents have the chance to air their views on life in the Vale of Glamorgan at the first of this year's State of the Area Debates. The council is holding the unique events for the third year running this month, in three Vale locations, starting
TWO Penarth men who travelled to Thailand in search of a relative lost in the tsunami have handed over money raised by Penarthians to Thai victims. The money was given to locals from the resort town of Khao Lak, who suffered horrendous injury or personal
A WELL-KNOWN Penarth family cooked for the Pope at Cardiff Castle when he visited the capital in 1982. Simeon and Andrew Rabaiotti and their father Eddie served lunch for Pope John Paul II on June 2, 1982. Eddie Rabaiotti, a staunch Catholic and owner
