THE company that owns a River Thames toll bridge has warned that levies will increase sooner than planned after the High Court ruled the firm would have…
POLICE have charged two men with the alleged armed robbery of Hermitage post office and store. The post office in High Street was targeted at about 5.30pm…
AFTER six years of fundraising Mortimer and Burghfield Community first responder scheme has raised enough money to purchase a new ambulance. The vehicle…
THAMES Valley Police is appealing for information after burglaries in Tilehurst and Lower Basildon. During the first incident, which happened between…
HEWLETT Packard combined its end of year conference at The Racecourse Newbury with a mission to create 100,000 food parcels for starving people. The technology…
A DATE has been set for a court hearing into the district council’s planning policy for the next 14 years, which is being challenged by a housing developer.…
THE ongoing saga surrounding a proposed new Ikea store for West Berkshire continued this week when Sainsbury’s took the plans to judicial review. West…
THATCHAM Town broke a six match losing streak with an impressive 8-1 victory away at Woodford United on Saturday. Town manager Scott Tarr handed a full…
SIX pieces of confidential information have been lost by West Berkshire Council in the last year, the local authority has admitted. The council’s chief…
NEWBURY Racecourse Golf Club is proposing a merger with Newbury and Crookham Golf Club. The proposition has come about following a review by The Racecourse…
POLICE have re-opened its investigation into the death of an unidentified man in West Berkshire in the 1970s. The body of the man, who was about 60-years-old…
STAFF at a Newbury drug treatment centre could be sacked and re-employed on worse terms, according to the UK’s largest trade union. UNISON claims that…
AFTER six years fundraising, Mortimer and Burghfield Community first responder scheme has raised enough money to purchase a new vehicle. The vehicle has…
THE CHRISTIAN Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is holding a candlelit vigil outside AWE Aldermaston in the lead up to Christmas. Christian CND is a specialist…
OWNERS of a West Berkshire woodland illegally used for paintball games for more than a decade has appealed against planning conditions recently imposed…
THE village of Beenham gathered together on Sunday night for the switch-on of its Christmas lights. Last year was the village’s inaugural lights switch-on,…
A READING man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a TIlehurst woman who had links to Newbury and went missing 12 years ago. Catherine Nee (pictured)…
A FORMER Tomorrow’s World presenter will become headteacher of a West Berkshire secondary school recently placed in special measures. Ofsted judged that…
BEENHAM is inviting the public to enjoy a mulled wine and mince pie for only its second ever Christmas lights switch-on tonight. Last year was the village’s…
A WEST Berkshire secondary school’s headteacher will leave her post this month following the school being placed in special measures. Ofsted has adjudged…
