AROUND 500 runners are to descend on the Wasing Estate near Aldermaston this weekend, as it hosts a unique event for endurance runners. The 24-hour, individual…
PUPILS and staff at a Newbury school shocked and saddened by the sudden death of a pupil are today (Friday) to attend a special tribute service for her.…
THE 21st annual Hungerford and District Community Arts Festival (HADCAF) gets underway today (Friday). And a packed itinerary has already been prepared,…
THATCHAM-based company Reading Freight Services has ceased trading. The company ran more than 30 vehicles, from one ton vans to 44 ton lorries, out of…
SHHH....a team of Year 3 pupils from Hungerford Primary School have been getting some coaching on the quiet ahead of a big tournament. They picked up…
POLICE were called to a home in Hungerford yesterday afternoon (Monday) after a body was discovered. Detectives were alerted at 1.08pm and raced to Kennedy…
SOUTH Berks Concert Band wants to hear from any young alumni of Reading or West Berkshire schools who are looking to be composers. The Englefield-based…
WEST Berkshire’s longest-serving primary school headteacher is hanging up his metaphorical mortar board. Keith Watts (pictured right) has been at the…
THIS amazing field of blood red poppies has been drawing sightseers to Lambourn from far and wide. The field is part of Nugent Farms, whose owners…
IF YOU’VE just come back from holiday and found a forgotten Euromillions raffle ticket.......look away now! The search for the missing ‘millionaire,’…
NEWBURY has a new pub restaurant called.... The Newbury. No, it's not referring to the Newbury Weekly News, but the Bartholomew Street hostelry formerly…
THE chief starter for the London 2012 Olympic Games has given a master class into sports officiating at a Newbury school. The man with the golden gun,…
A MAN killed by a train may have been texting his girlfriend at the very moment he died, an inquest in Newbury heard this week. The hearing at the Town…
POLICE have confirmed that they are investigating a spate of cat poisonings in Hungerford. Fearful pet owners believe a deranged poisoner is targeting…
END of year statistics released by crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers have revealed that 2,736 pieces of information were passed to police in Thames…
A PUPIL at Mary Hare School in Newbury was selected to be one of the proud bearers of the Olympic flame as it travels along the length of the UK. Mitchell…
THE mystery ‘millionaire’ who bought a winning lottery ticket in West Berkshire has until the middle of next week to claim the prize - or lose it forever.…
FORMER Hungerford town councillor Jan Giggins has said she is reporting West Berkshire Council to the local government ombudsman. Earlier this month the…
THE BOSS of Cameo Fine Art Auctioneers has officially been declared bankrupt. The ruling against Jon King was made in Reading County Court and will be…
A GREAT Bedwyn man has been arrested as part of a nationwide police operation targeting suspected internet paedophiles. The 28-year-old was questioned…
