A routine traffic enquiry ended with a motorist smashing his head through the windscreen of a police car, Newbury magistrates heard. It should have been…
WEST Berkshire Council has been caught out again for issuing an illegal parking fine. And again, there are fears that hundreds of similarly invalid Penalty…
TWO men have been sent to the Crown court following an investigation into former Midgham-based Cameo Fine Art Auctioneers. They are Glenn Norcliffe, aged…
HUNGERFORD Rotary Club has rung the changes and made a new home at The Three Swans Hotel. For around a decade the club has used The Bear Hotel as its…
NEWBURY’S magistrates’ court has been downgraded to ‘satellite’ status, and its permanent prisoner escort service withdrawn. Sentencing cases and hearings…
NO ONE should have to sleep rough in West Berkshire from November to the end of next January. That was the vow from the team at Two Saints hostel in Newtown…
A MAN punched a pub doorman in the face - then ran and hid when his victim gave chase, Newbury magistrates heard. In the dock on Thursday, October 10,…
POLICE have warned people picking ‘magic’ mushrooms in local fields that they are breaking the law. Police have increased patrols in and around Savernake…
A REVELLER ground a lit cigarette into a police officer’s hand and spat in his face, Newbury magistrates heard on Thursday, October 10. Victoria Griffiths,…
PARENTS have been have been kept in the dark over proposed upheavals to schooling in Hungerford, it was claimed this week. Education chiefs have been…
A FORMER schoolteacher from Crookham Common is facing 35 charges of abuse against schoolchildren. He is 70-year-old Keith Cavendish-Coulson, of Crookham…
A MAN has appeared in court charged with causing the death of a Great Shefford woman. Actress Katherine Howard, aged 32, died following a car crash in…
PROPOSALS for 250 new homes in Hungerford have prompted an angry reaction. The Hungerford edition of the Newbury Weekly News recently reported how planning…
A MAN aged 64 has been issued with an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) banning him from Newbury town centre. Peter May, of no fixed abode, was given…
A REVELLER in Newbury Market Place was “blindsided” in an unprovoked attack which knocked his tooth out, town magistrates heard. Victim Paul Eaton said…
MORE than 1,000 visitors helped make the fourth annual Hungerford Food Festival a resounding success. There was a chance to participate in recipe competitions,…
A NEWBURY man admitted committing an indecent assault when he appeared before town magistrates on Thursday, October 3. Michael Adrian Gibbons, aged 70,…
TWO drunk men attacked a teenage girl in Park Way, Newbury, triggering an extraordinary affray, town magistrates heard. The drama happened in broad daylight,…
A DAUGHTER told an inquest of her shock after her father was found to be suffering severe dehydration in a £1,000 per week private nursing home. Former…
BROWN trout and other fish in the River Kennet appear ill-equipped for winter following a disastrous chemical spill in July. The warning came from an…
