THE TOWN and Manor of Hungerford has presented a cheque for £500 to the Hungerford and Camburn Educational Trust. Chairman of the trustees, Barbara Barr,…
THIS year’s Lambourn Carnival Princesses have been crowned, ahead of next month’s festivities. They are Chloe Gibbs, Lisa Plumb and Isabelle Money and…
A SPEEN man attacked a doorman after being asked to leave a Newbury town centre pub, a court heard. Daniel James Davis, aged 26, of Sutton Road, headbutted…
A FAMILY has told of the heartbreaking moment a wife and mother gave up her long fight against a devastating neurological condition. An inquest in Newbury…
A PLAN for a thriving community of artists and craftsmen for Hungerford is due to be unveiled to planners next month. The project has been two years in…
THAMES Valley Police and Crime Commissioner Anthony Stansfeld has been ordered to repay £142 expenses to which he was not entitled. He wrongly claimed…
THE last pint has been pulled at The Rising Sun in Woolhampton. The historic coaching inn is currently boarded up and there are no plans to reopen it.The…
JOHN O’Gaunt School is celebrating its half century - and all students and staff, past and present, are invited to join in. There will be an opportunity…
THE HUNT is on for the culprits who dumped a deadly pesticide into the River Kennet, causing a major pollution alert in Hungerford. The pollution was…
A FORMER West Berkshire Ofsted inspector and ex-acting head of John O’Gaunt School has been arrested over an alleged fraud. Sixty-three-year-old Tim Royle,…
IT WAS the end of an era last Thursday, June 27, as one of Newbury’s longest-serving public defenders retired. Ian Campbell has hung up his business suit…
A NEWBURY angler has told how he rescued a drowning man from the Kennet and Avon canal. The drama happened around 4.45pm last Thursday, June 27, as John…
PLANS to refurbish and extend Lambourn Primary School have been unveiled. School authorities fear the current, dilapidated appearance of the building…
NEWBURY market square was a Mecca for foodies last Sunday as the town hosted a mouthwatering Food Festival. Nearly 80 stalls competed for attention in…
A THATCHAM man who smashed up a till in McDonalds must pay hundreds of pounds in compensation. Andrew James Humphreys of Cholsey Road, hurled the till…
A NEW application for the former Lamb pub in Lambourn has so far met with local approval. The application involves a change of use for the parts of the…
A NEWBURY businessman has been convicted of allowing his premises to be used as a brothel. Newbury magistrates heard in court last week that it became…
THE sound of willow on cork resounded round Northcroft cricket pitch in Newbury in an interfaith match on Sunday. The event was organised by the local…
ABOUT 500 people packed into the Croft Field recently for St Lawrence’s Church annual fete. There was a celebratory atmosphere in the sun as visitors…
A FESTIVAL reveller who thought he was “invincible” died from a lethal ‘designer’ drugs cocktail ordered over the internet. Forty-six-year-old…
