Cllr. Angela Thomas has been elected as the Mayor for Penarth 2019/2020. Angela Thomas represents Plymouth Ward and served as Deputy Mayor in 2019/2020, which included many duties and charity events alongside Cllr. Jon Luxton. At the Town Council’s Annual General Meeting last Friday 17th May, Cllr. Rhiannon Birch Wilson proposed Cllr. Thomas and the motion was seconded by Cllr … Read More
Penarth has joined a network of communities across the UK who are leading the way on tackling throw away plastic. The town has been awarded Plastic Free Community status by marine conservation charity, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), in recognition of the work it has done to start reducing the impact of single-use plastic on the environment. Local resident Anthony Slaughter … Read More
On 2 April 2019, a small gathering of diligent, dedicated and passionate volunteers, fundraisers and supporters gathered at Penarth’s Willmore’s 1938 café. Everyone was there to celebrate the local fundraising branch of Marie Curie successfully fundraising £200,000 over 16 years. As well as offering practical information and emotional support for anyone affected by terminal illness, their nine UK hospices give round-the-clock, … Read More
Words by Hilary Bugler Those of us with a cataract would all be jumping at an offer of an operation for £40 if it were in the UK. It’s actually the remarkable cost to the Vale for Africa charity to conduct this operation in Tororo District of Eastern Uganda. Each year a small team of six optometrists travels for a … Read More
The Vale of Glamorgan Festival celebrates its 50th Anniversary with a full programme of exciting events, bringing the best new classical music to venues across South Wales, featuring works by over 20 living composers to include Dobrinka Tabakova, Graham Fitkin, Ben Wallace, Robert Fokkens, Peteris Vask, and Steve Reich, as well as by the Festival’s own artistic director, composer John Metcalf. … Read More
For the first time ever there is a Welsh language Sofa to 5k podcast and app for Welsh speakers, and Penarth View’s Health and Wellbeing Influencer, Rae Carpenter is at the heart of it! Rae is the Personal Trainer for S4C’s FFITCymru which started at 8pm on Tuesday 2nd April for 8 weeks. She, along with 2 other experts, Sioned … Read More
An exhibition by two local Penarth textile artists Carol Bartlett and Haf Weighton which draws on the history of the area combined with contemporary art. Adre\Home will be exhibited at Penarth Pier Pavilion from 12 April until 30 May 2019. The exhibition’s opening party takes place 12 April at 7pm. Playwright Dafydd James who wrote Llwyth\Tribe and Tiger Bay will open … Read More
Shiny Happy People is a parent and baby/toddler singing group with a difference. Instead of being aimed at the little ones the focus is on you! Here’s how it all came about… We are Kate and Stef and we have been friends for almost 20 years. When we hit our joint 90th birthday in 2018 we decided that this was … Read More
Gillian Anderson already has a connection to Penarth’s Paget Rooms, with both starring in Netflix’s Sex Education. Until Gillian returns to Penarth to film Season Two, audiences can catch her in a live screening of the hit London play All About Eve on April 11th. Gillian Anderson (X-Files, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here … Read More
