Welcome to our weekend feature, Penarth round-up. Throughout the week Nub News brings you national news through a local lens and positive community stories.

Here are six stories you might have missed from Penarth this week…

Griffin Books earns yet another national accolade

Just one month after being named the Best Independent Bookshop in Wales, Griffin Books has been nationally recognised yet again.

In their Reader's Travel Tips section, The Guardian listed the Windsor Arcade shop among its '12 of the UK's best independent bookshops, chosen by readers'.

Helping Hands Penarth launches hamper fundraiser

The community group Helping Hands Penarth is raffling eight hampers to raise funds to support their volunteering work and that of others.

Founded in lockdown, the group strives to "bring together the whole community to unite against the COVID-19 challenges."

A treat for the senses for Marie Curie hospice patients and visitors

A Penarth hospice has unveiled a sensory garden area to mark National Gardening Week.

The Marie Curie Hospice, Cardiff and the Vale on Bridgeman Road, received funding from the Cardiff and Vale Health Charity Make it Better fund – allowing the team to create the sensory area in the side courtyard.

"If they won't protect the public, I will": Deco owner sets up makeshift cordon after falling concrete

Debra Lock, the owner of Deco Cafe on Albert Road, has this afternoon cordoned off an area of pavement beneath a cracked piece of first-floor lintel considered potentially dangerous by multiple informed sources.

She says she is doing so to protect the public until the Vale of Glamorgan Council erect their own barrier.

Mrs Lock is also continuing to withhold rent from landlords Royal Mail until she sees evidence that the lintel is safe.

Hundreds of thousands spent on two roads in the Vale which now won't get built

Hundreds of thousands of pounds has been spent on two proposed roads in the Vale of Glamorgan which now won't get built.

For several years Vale of Glamorgan council was drawing up plans to build a road from the A48 to the M4, and another road bypassing Dinas Powys.

But last month the Welsh Government announced it would not fund building these new roads, as part of its new transport strategy which focuses on public and active transport.

Vale of Glamorgan leisure centres prepare to open

VALE of Glamorgan leisure centres are preparing to reopen in line with the latest easing of Welsh Government coronavirus restrictions.

Barry, Colcot, Cowbridge, Llantwit Major and Penarth Leisure centres will all be open for business again from Monday (May 3) after the First Minister announced this milestone could be brought forward seven days.