WEST Berkshire Museum’s management is seeking volunteers to join its new ‘friends of the museum’ group. West Berkshire Council is hoping to redevelop…
WEST Berkshire residents are being invited to a free bike marking event in Newbury this weekend. Thames Valley Police is hosting the event outside the…
NEWBURY MP Richard Benyon has said he will not apologise to a national Sunday newspaper over a row about a hosepipe on his estate. The People claimed…
TWO Park House School, Newbury, pupils are celebrating after being nominated for the Academy Excellence Awards. Madelaine Gilboy and Ben Skuse have been…
READING Football Club is back in the Premier League for only the second spell in the club’s 141 year history. Mikele Leigertwood’s 81st minute goal was…
THOUSANDS of children from across Berkshire will be taking part in the Berkshire School Games today (Wednesday) to mark 100 days to the start of the London…
A FRIEND of Newbury hero Marine Mark Jackson, who was awarded the gallantry medal last year after he dived on a colleague to save him from a grenade,…
THREE West Berkshire friends have helped to raise more than £7,000 pounds for cancer charities by cycling to Paris. Mark Thompson, aged 35, from Hungerford,…
THAMES Water is continuing its negotiations with the Environment Agency to take more water from the River Thames. The region has been in drought since…
A WEST Berkshire charity that supports young children with disabilities is hosting its second golf day to raise much-needed funds. Dingley Family and…
BBC Junior Bake Off winner, Freya Watson, has raised £600 for her school, Chieveley Primary, by selling her cakes during the Easter break. The 10-year-old…
BRADFIELD Cricket Club is rising from the ashes after its pavilion was destroyed by arson at the end of November. The club’s welfare officer and captain…
WEST Berkshire Liberal Dem-ocrats have accused the district’s ruling Conservatives of jeopardising the health of children at schools achieving low food…
MOTHERCARE Plc has announced 111 of its stores are to close in the next three years. The babywear retailer had already closed 62 stores, three Mothercare…
A NEWBURY theatre has got the go ahead to build a controversial extension, despite opposition from residents and the town council. New Era Theatre (pictured)…
THE amount of discarded fish has been radically reduced following a Government trial claims fisheries minister and Newbury MP Richard Benyon. Last year’s…
NEWBURY MP Richard Benyon has branded a Sunday newspaper’s claim that he flouted the hosepipe ban the day after it was enforced as “pathetic”. The People…
THAMES Valley Police is renewing its appeal for the public’s help in tracing a Berkshire man who is wanted after failing to answer police bail. Ian Charles…
WEST Berkshire residents will have to find other means of watering their gardens and cleaning their cars as the hosepipe ban comes into force today (Thursday).…
A FORMER Crookham Court School teacher who was jailed last month for sexually abusing a pupil has decided to appeal his conviction. Mark Standish, also…
