Penarth Breakfast Briefing is a daily column dedicated to morning 'must-knows' from around town and other useful bits: weather, traffic, travel, and trivia news in a nutshell.

Top story

Penarth's Westbourne School sixth formers celebrate top university places. Westbourne School sixth formers are celebrating after receiving outstanding IB Diploma exam results that have secured places at some of the UK's highest-ranking universities.

Penarth weather forecast

Sunshine with a few clouds will start the morning from 06:00 and continue throughout the rest of the day. Top temperature of 23°C.

Pollution: Low

UV: Very High

Pollen: High

Sunrise in Penarth today: 05:06

Sunset in Penarth today: 21:29

Penarth Traffic

Usual morning traffic on the B4267/Lavernock Road. Busy traffic on Cornerswell Road and Westbourne Road. Slow traffic on Plymouth Road, Stanwell Road and Victoria Road. Some slow-moving traffic on Plassey Street and Windsor Road towards Cogan.

What's On in Penarth

Over in our What's On section, find theatre, comedy, live music, and other events coming up in Penarth.

Late shop opening times

Tesco Penarth Superstore

Terra Nova Way, Penarth CF64 1SA

Open until 23:00

Interesting fact of the day

Sweden has 267,570 islands, the most of any country in the world.

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