{"id":23211,"date":"2019-03-01T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=23211"},"modified":"2019-03-01T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:55:36","slug":"barrys-longest-running-business-to-close-after-127-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/barrys-longest-running-business-to-close-after-127-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry&#8217;s longest running business to close after 127 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The present owner of a DIY shop in Barry says he&#8217;s sad it&#8217;s closing after more than a century of business in the town.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The future of Silver Star DIY is uncertain after the business&#8217;s landlords, Associated British Ports sold the site.<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0the lease runs out at the end of March, the shop will close with owner\u00a0David Sylvester still looking for new premises.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sylvester told CJS News:&#8221;Obviously we&#8217;re saddened by it because of the time we&#8217;ve been in the town, our very loyal customers and very loyal staff.<\/p>\n<p>The business has been in his family since the 1890s and has seen through lifetimes of change.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Vale of Glamorgan Council approved plans to build two blocks of flats that will include 80 affordable homes on the site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The present owner of a DIY shop in Barry says he&#8217;s sad it&#8217;s closing after more than a century of business in the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[577,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23229,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23211\/revisions\/23229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}