News in Barry

Academy Espresso in Barry will be reopening soon for locals to enjoy their caffeine fix once again and enjoy the refurbishments that they shop have completed during the lockdown period.

This will come as welcome to news to many with the shop being a popular local stop-off. Take away will be the first service available with details on home delivery to be announced later on.

Barry's well-loved delicatessen Food For Thought has reopened today whilst adhering to strict social distancing guidelines in store for takeaway and delivery.

They shut at the end of March in line with government guidelines and have been working hard to open up for the community once again in the safest way possible.

Loft Co, the company behind the Goodsheds development in Barry have confirmed that Meet and Greek will be setting up shop in the new shopping centre upon completion.

The scheme was given the go-ahead by the Vale council in July 2019. Loft Co will be transforming the building into office spaces, restaurants, shops and much more.

Vale Council Enforcement Officers have attended two flytipping incidents in the area of the old Five Mile Lane in Barry over the weekend.

On Saturday, the Council posted images of the incident and asked members of the public for any information that they may have to help find the culprits.

The Barry Coastguard team were called out to a mysterious object in the water this morning which was called in as a possible canoe at Whitmore Bay.

The team said: ''This morning our volunteers were tasked to an object in water, possibly a canoe.

The Vale of Glamorgan Council is encouraging Barry residents to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day at home by taking part in a number of activities to mark the occasion.

Unfortunately, restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus mean the usual ceremony held outside the Civic Offices in Barry and other public gatherings cannot take place this year.

Significant progress is being made on the Vale of Glamorgan's latest major regeneration project, with elements of the £9 million Goods Shed redevelopment set to open next month.

The former railway storage building on Hood Road in Barry is being converted into a shipping container village of office space, retail units, restaurants and a coffee shop alongside an apartment complex.

A drug dealer who continued to peddle heroin and crack cocaine while under investigation by police has been jailed for almost four years.

Tristan Levene, 24, from Barry, was arrested in the early hours of May 31 last year, following a vehicle pursuit and foot chase. He was found hiding in a garden with thousands of pounds worth of suspected Class A drugs in his possession.

Barry's famous tribute act festival has been cancelled due to the uncertainty of coronavirus, the organisers have announced.

The weekend of entertainment was due to take place in July but will now be rescheduled for 2021.

New figures released yesterday (Friday, 1 May) show that 22 coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded in Barry since the pandemic began.

The figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show, for the first time, deaths at a local level for people who have contracted Covid-19.