A NEW Tesco store rumoured to replace a closed pub in Burghfield Common, will open next year. Talk has been rife in the village for a number of years…
POLICE are on the hunt for a crowbar-wielding man who robbed Hermitage post office and store. The post office in High Street was targeted at about 5.30pm…
A CAR involved in a head-on collision on the M4 was travelling in the wrong direction, horrified motorists told an inquest this week. The cars driven…
AS an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of Greenham RAF refugee camp for Ugandan Asians is to be officially opened tonight (Thurs), people who fled…
THAMES Valley Police is appealing for the public’s help in tracing a missing boy. Saif Mohammad (pictured), aged 15, from Tilehurst, was last seen by…
NEWBURY Showground will soon be able to host twice as many equestrian and educational events. On Wednesday, district councillors approved new heads of…
A WEST Berkshire councillor who started a petition calling on Network Rail to improve safety at Ufton Nervet level-crossing has lambasted the rail company…
LAMBOURN trainer Nicky Henderson was celebrating at The Racecourse Newbury yesterday (Saturday) following success in the Hennessy Gold Cup. Mr Henderson’s…
WEST Berkshire’s primary schools are among the best in the country. However, 32 per cent of district’s secondary schools are ‘satisfactory’ or ‘inadequate’,…
LORD Nelson, Claude Monet, William Shakespeare and other notable figures from the past turned up for class at a West Berkshire school recently. Pupils…
THE problem of homelessness in West Berkshire is much worse than the district council estimates, according to people who have slept rough on our district’s…
NEWBURY Racecourse is gearing up for one of the biggest jump races of the year. The Hennessy Gold Cup, one of the most prestigious in Britain, brings…
THE Duchess of Cambridge returned to her old school in West Berkshire today (Friday). Her Royal Highness visited St Andrew's School in Pangbourne, where…
The Duchess of Cambridge will be visiting her old West Berkshire school today. The Duchess is scheduled to return to St Andrew's School near Pangbourne…
WOULD you like the chance to meet an Olympic gold medalist, get your photo taken with the Olympic torch and find out about sporting activities in your…
GENTLEMEN'S Day is being held today (Fri) at The Racecourse, Newbury as part of one of the busiest meetings of the year. The weather is forecast to be…
NUCLEAR bomb maker Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) appeared in court today (Thursday) charged with safety breaches relating to a fire at its West Berkshire…
POLICE are trying to track down a group of ‘mindless vandals’ who catapulted a brick at a bus in Greenham. A group of people were seen to fire the brick…
A NEWBURY businessman has pleaded to the public for information after £15,000 was stolen from his home at the weekend. Forty-five-year-old Paul Homersham…
SIX THOUSAND and eighty motorists have been fined for driving illegally over Park Way bridge in Newbury within a year of it being turned into a bus lane…
