NATIONAL Rail has admitted serious failings in its communications with West Berkshire Council and local communities over planned bridge works taking place…
WEST Berkshire Council was aware that signs warning motorists that they were banned from using Park Way bridge were not lit properly much earlier than…
A GREENHAM woman has told of her struggle after her ex-husband disappeared in South Africa in 1997, presumed dead, leaving the family unable to find closure.Diane…
FIREFIGHTERS spent two-and-a-half hours fighting a blaze in a shed full of wood chippings in Lower Basildon yesterday (Sunday). Two crews, one from Dee…
A METEOR so bright that it set the night-sky alight was spotted in West Berkshire as it made its way from northern Scotland to Devon on Saturday night.Sightings…
BORED and at home today (Saturday)? There are a range of interesting events taking place in West Berkshire that may take your fancy.Archaeologists from…
BERKSHIRE’s fire service has announced it is to relocate its headquarters from Tilehurst to Theale Cross. The move will include the relocation of 180…
A man who died in a garage in Burghfield at around midnight on Friday (24) has been named as Steven Bryan, aged 44, of Burghfield. The cause of death…
THE North Newbury Children’s Centre, located at Victoria Park Nursery School, Victoria Park, Newbury, will be closed today (Wednesday). The closure is…
THE opening hours at Theale library are to be cut from 45.5 hours a week during term time to just 26 hours per week. The opening hours will remain constant…
TELEVISION feel-good guru Gok Wan was at Newbury Racecourse today to launch Vodafone’s annual charity drive, World of Difference, where 500 people are…
POLICE are treating the death of a man in Burghfield on Friday night as unexplained but not suspicious.A spokeswoman for the ambulance service, Philippa…
THE LUXURY hotel at Donnington Grove Country Club, Newbury, will in future be managed by Macdonald Hotels and Resorts. The group took over the running…
Thursday (today) 14.51pm: There are traffic delays on the M4 westbound between J13 (A338, Hungerford) and J15 (A419, Swindon East) because of an earlier…
NEWBURY town centre was deserted last night (Tuesday) after a power cut forced several restaurants and late-night businesses to close early.The planned…
NEWBURY Market Place will be affected by a power cut from 8.30pm this evening (Tuesday).Restaurant owners and other businesses in the Market Place were…
HORDES of elephants, wild cats and blue, pancake slinging Smurfs were seen stampeding through the Market Place in Newbury at lunchtime today (Tuesday).…
THE final phase of West Berkshire’s digital television switchover will take place tomorrow (Wednesday). In the first phase, which occurred a fortnight…
THE future of the old Cold War control tower on Greenham Common – under threat of possible demolition – may have been secured after it received a Grade…
WEST Berkshire’s residents will not have to pay more for their fire service this year, a decision described as “desperately sad” by union members who…
