BARRY BRIEFING: Tuesday, March 3rd 2020

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TODAY'S BARRY SUNRISE:

06:51

TODAY'S BARRY SUNSET:

17:58

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TODAY'S BARRY WEATHER FROM THE MET OFFICE:

After early rain clears, it should be a largely dry day with bright or sunny spells, though there is the risk of a few showers. Breezy, especially over the hills and around the coasts, making it feel a little chilly. Maximum temperature 8 °C. Aside from a few showers, it will be largely dry overnight with lengthy clear spells, allowing for widespread frost to form. Towards dawn, showery rain will creep into western parts. Minimum temperature -2 °C.

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TODAY'S TIDE TIMES AND HEIGHT

Low Tide - 05:14 - 3.40m

High Tide - 12:04 - 8.78m

Low Tide - 17:53 - 3.67m

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TODAY'S BARRY AREA EVENTS:

Joan Thorne – Light, Layers, Insight at Barry Art Museum:

The Barry Art Museum is presenting its first temporary exhibition, featuring the complex chromatic work of American abstract painter Joan Thorne. This retrospective, organized by Museum staff, consists of 30 large-scale oil paintings on canvas spanning the artist's career from the early 1970s to 2018. Trained at New York University and Hunter College under Tony Smith in the 1960s, Thorne burst onto the New York art scene as one of the few women included in the 1972 Whitney Annual show. Solo exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, in the Dominican Republic, and in Puerto Rico followed. Get together: Ageing well activities in Barry

Really Nice Morning in the shop today Lovely Group at Knit and Natter Group some new faces. Thanks to Joyce Sandra and Alison for all their help.

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LOCAL SPORT FIXTURES THIS WEEK

Rugby:

Barry RFC -

None this week. Football: Barry Town FC -

• 6th of March | 8:00 pm kick-off
• Barry RFC vs The New Saints (Away)

Island Marine FC:

• 7th of March | 2:00pm kick-off
• Island Marine vs. St Athan (Away)

Barry Athletic:

• 7th of March | 2:00pm kick-off
• Barry Athletic vs. Cowbridge Town (Away)

Holton Road FC:

None this week

TODAY'S SHOWINGS AT BARRY'S MEMO ARTS CENTRE:

Exhibition On Screen: Lucian Freud – A Self Portrait:

For the first time in history the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is bringing together Lucian Freud's self-portraits.

The exhibition will display more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turned his unflinching eye firmly on himself. One of the most celebrated painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of very few 20th-century artists who portrayed themselves with such consistency.

Spanning nearly seven decades his self-portraits give a fascinating insight into both his psyche and his development as a painter, from his earliest portrait painted in 1939 to the final one executed 64 years later. When seen together, his portraits represent an engrossing study into the dynamic of ageing and the process of self-representation. This intensely compelling exhibition creates a unique opportunity for EXHIBITION ON SCREEN to reveal the life's work of a master in one show. TICKETS: £10.

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ROAD CLOSURES BARRY: A4226 (Five Mile Lane)

• Ongoing
• A number of sets of traffic lights will be in place throughout the Five Mile Lane to allow for highway improvement works.
• Please note: All businesses within the area are open as normal and can be accessed via the opposite end to the closure.

Pontypridd Road junction with Severn Avenue, Barry

• 20/01/20 - Ongoing
• Four-way temporary traffic lights will be in place from the junction with Pontypridd Road and Severn Avenue for 6 weeks, for rising main works.
• Contractor: Welsh Water

East Walk, Barry

• 24/02/20 - 13/03/20, 8.00am - 8.00pm
• Road closure will be in place for gas main works.
• Contractor: Wales and West Utilities

Barry Road junction, Buttrills Road, Barry:

• 24/02/20 - 13/03/20
• Temporary traffic control will be in place for gas mains replacement works.
• Contractor: Wales and West Utilities

St Brides Way, Barry

• 02/03/20 - 04/03/20

• Intermittent traffic control will be in place for reinstatement work.

• Contractor: WWU

Court Road and Barry Road, Barry

• 04/03/20 - 06/03/20

• Temporary traffic control will be in place for duct work.

• Contractor: BT

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ''The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.'' - Lawrence Durrell

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