News in Barry

The Vale of Glamorgan Council and Arts Development Service, alongside Art Central Friends, is inviting local residents to submit examples of art produced during the coronavirus lockdown to feature in an online exhibition.

With the Country stuck indoors, creativity has flourished over the last few months and the aim of this initiative is to capture and celebrate that fact.

A road closure has been put in place in Barry on Plymouth Road as heavy rain has caused the flooding of the road and adjacent play area.

South Wales Police said: ''Road closure in place at Plymouth Road Barry island, where flooding has caused several drain covers to collapse, and vehicles to break down."

The Vale of Glamorgan Council's enforcement team reported on a major incident of flytipping in Barry on Tuesday evening.

They said: ''Officers attended this significant flytipping incident just off the A4050 Docks Link Road in Barry.

The Vale of Glamorgan Council has thanked a Rhoose resident for transforming the equipment in a local play area with a lick of paint and a tidy.

They said: ''We would like to say a huge thank you to a local resident, John Davies, for tidying up the play equipment at the end of Smeaton Close in Rhoose.

Two Greggs stores in Barry will reopen on Thursday as part of the wider opening of 800 stores across the UK, which was announced today.

The two that have been listed for the first stage of reopening are:

Schools in Wales are set to reopen their doors on 29 June and will welcome back pupils to a 'new normal'.

Schoolwork has continued for many during lockdown and has been enhanced by online learning. Many clubs and extra-curricular activities have successfully moved onto an online platform. In Barry and Cowbridge these include French lessons with Sian-Elin Jones, or Madame Sian-El as she is known to her pupils.

Plans to prevent flooding in Barry by planting more trees and reducing the amount of concrete pavement has been given a £192,500 boost.

The Court Road roundabout area is one of the main access points for Barry town centre.

New figures released today (Friday, 12 June) by the Office for National Statistics show that 45 coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded between 1 March 2020 and 31 May 2020 in Barry.

The figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) are the only statistics which show deaths at a hyper-local level for people who have contracted Covid-19.

Vale of Glamorgan schools are at the forefront of an innovative operation to ensure some of the County's most vulnerable families don't go hungry during the coronavirus pandemic.

Cadoxton, Romilly and Y Ddraig are providing hundreds of food parcels a week, which are then distributed to the families of pupils hit hardest by the crisis.

Shops in Barry have called for a delay to new car parking charges, given the economic shock of coronavirus.

Drivers could soon have to pay to park at Wyndham Street car park, Barry, near to the Holton Road shops.