A FRUSTRATED Hungerford mayor has launched a withering attack on Co-op bosses over the state of a distinctive High Street building. Martin Crane (pictured)…
HIGHWAYS chiefs have rejected criticism of “shoddy work” on the A4 between Halfway and the Kintbury turnoff. Instead, they blamed motorists, claiming…
A MARSH Benham man is facing a possible jail sentence for making and supplying the bizarre psychedelic drug Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Stephen Andrew Allen,…
A WOMAN was repeatedly struck by a man with a stick, then punched in the face by another female, Newbury magistrates heard last Thursday, May 23. In the…
A MOTORIST who drove home after several pints with an excitable dog loose in the car, ended up in a ditch, Newbury magistrates heard. Police attended…
A SMALLHOLDING couple are celebrating this week, having finally won their battle with planners to live on the land they farm. The pair live a low carbon…
THE MUSLIM community of West Berkshire laid wreaths at Newbury war memorial on Wednesday in honour of murdered soldier Drummer Lee Rigby. In a moving,…
NEWBURY MP Richard Benyon (pictured) has acknowledged that his party’s wrangling over gay marriage and Europe have been damaging. And he conceded that…
A MAN found slumped and asleep at the wheel of his car with the engine running failed in his bid to keep his driving licence. Mark George Shepheard, formerly…
THE BIG Wheel Bike Ride is set to take place this year on Sunday, June 30. The chariity bike ride takes place every summer, starting from Hungerford Common,…
PLANS are afoot to install another wind turbine at Sheepdrove Organic Farm A similar application last year generated vociferous - but unltimately futile…
THE SIXTH Bayer 10k Run attracted more than 1,000 people to Newbury today (Sunday). The event is becoming an increasingly popular fixture in the athletic…
THAMES Valley Police’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) is to have his controversial expenses officially examined. That was the outcome of a meeting…
POLICE have appealed for witnesses following a collision between a car and a motorbike on the A343 Andover Road in Newbury. At about 10.05pm on Thursday,…
POLICE are investigating footage of a motorist apparently careering along the Newbury to Wantage road at a reckless 140mph. The film, uploaded to social…
IT’S CHEERS to the Hungerford Club for retaining its title of Club of the Year, awarded by the West Berkshire Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). The popular…
AN ELDERLY man, savagely attacked in a daylight robbery in Newbury town centre, needed stitches to a head wound, colleagues revealed yesterday (Wednesday).…
A DEVOTED Hungerford couple received a telegram from the Queen on their diamond wedding anniversary. Ray and Chris Beasley first met through a mutual…
AN APPEAL for new Lambourn Parish Council members went out during the annual parish assembly meeting. Council chairman Peter Iveson also paid tribute…
A FORMER racing cyclist and keen gardner took his own life when illness robbed him of his active lifestyle, an inquest heard. Eighty-five-year-old James…
