WEST Berkshire Council is offering emergency shelter to anyone who is homeless over Christmas and the New Year. Usually the council’s housing service…
HE’S been bodyslammed by a wrestling champion, conducted a philharmonic orchestra and abseiled down London’s 02 Arena. He’s cuddled a piglet and a giant…
ONE OF the most committed members of West Berkshire Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has died. Clive Stevens, who lived in Hungerford for many years before…
NETWORK Rail has announced delays to services today (Friday) - just as the Christmas rush gets underway. First Great Western services to London Paddington…
HUNGERFORD firefighters had to wait for the power supply to be cut before tackling a blazing electricity transformer. West Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service…
A CACHE of goods belonging to customers of defunct Cameo Fine Art Auctioneers has been found. A spokesman for the Reading-based Official Receivers, Graham…
THE new Police and Crime Commissioner Anthony Stansfeld has rejected claims of cronyism after appointing a fellow Conservative as his assistant. Mr Stansfeld…
COUNCIL chiefs have appealed to the Government to allow the use of stronger poison to fight Newbury’s super rat plague. Pest control experts warn that…
COUNCIL officials have formally moved to evict a couple trying to live a low carbon lifestyle selling ethically reared produce. An enforcement notice…
ICE needles coat frozen branches and even turn a metal gate into a bizarre, baroque work of art. These stunning images of last Wednesday’s hoar frost…
AS THE famous Victorian author nearly said....for those who know how to keep Christmas well, it will be a Dickens of an extravaganza in Hungerford tonight…
LADIES - we nearly didn’t recognise you with your clothes on! The models from the Beedon Country Wives Calender donned their glad rags for the official…
A MAN has been charged in connection with an incident in which a pig’s head was left outside a Newbury mosque. The incident happened in Pound Street on…
NOMINATIONS are now being accepted for Hungerford’s Freedom of the Town Awards 2013. Members of the public and organisations can put forward nominees…
Rumours that ‘Skyfall’ star Daniel Craig has been house- hunting in the Ramsbury area continued to circulate this week. Last week, the NWN reported how…
CARE in Hungerford Action In Need (CHAIN) urgently needs volunteer car drivers. The drivers will be required to take Hungerford people to appointments…
OMG, can u blv it? 20 yrs since 1st txt. A Short Message Service (SMS) text was sent by Reading-born Neil Papworth on December 3, 1992, to an an employee…
RESIDENTS in Howarth Court, Newbury, are suffering from an outbreak of bed bugs. And some have criticised the response of landlord Sovereign Housing,…
JOHN O’Gaunt Community Technology College requires improvement, according to its latest Ofsted report. The verdict from the inspection in November was…
A PUBLIC spat has broken out between Hungerford Town Council and the Chamber of Commerce over a £10,000 windfall for the town. At stake is how best to…
