AMATEUR chefs and keen cooks will soon be able to book lessons from a master. Proposals to convert the Five Bells, Woodspeen, into a 70-seater restaurant…
WEST Berkshire’s councillor in charge of highways has admitted she can not understand why more than 10,000 motorists have been fined on Park Way bridge…
A COMPANY director who defrauded clients out of more than £80,000 was jailed for three years yesterday (Tuesday). Ashley Martin Taylor (pictured) established…
IT’S CHEERS for the beers, for 10 years, to David and Janet Yates. The couple celebrated a decade at The Downgate pub with a party for regulars recently.Mr…
IF you’re a drug dealer with expensive tastes, you don’t trouble to go shopping in person - you send an addict customer to steal for you. That’s what…
ENTERPRISE Inns are renovating one of Newbury town centre’s oldest pubs and bringing back its former name. If planners approve the application before…
HUNGERFORD Town Council is now up to its full strength following the formal co-option of three new councillors. At a meeting earlier this month two candidates,…
THE PRESSURE in on West Berkshire highways chiefs this week to explain their apparent inaction in the face of a tribunal ruling. A spokesman for the council,…
A THATCHAM man who believed he could safely drive after drinking more than the legal limit got a wake-up call, Newbury magistrates heard. Police officers…
A MAN has appeared before a crown court judge charged with grooming a Thatcham girl. Jason Nicholas Trower, aged 25, of Brands Meadow, Muxton, Telford,…
TENS of thousands of motorists may have been wrongly issued fines, potentially totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds, for driving over Newbury’s Park…
A WOMAN involved in a car crash called police after smelling alcohol on the other driver’s breath, Newbury magistrates heard. And when police breathalysed…
PLANNERS are considering an application for a ‘solar farm’ approximately the size of 42 football pitches on land at Membury. The proposed site is within…
A MAN released halfway through a four-year prison sentence for burglary was caught trying to get into a stranger’s home, Newbury magistrates heard. But…
THIS year’s Hungerford town show, the Wizard of Oz, was a spellbinding success. Community of Hungerford Theatre Company member and town councillor, Roger…
CAMPAIGNERS have demanded urgent action on a “danger road” following the latest fatality. On Wednesday a woman who died following a collision on the controversial…
NEWBURY magistrates expressed concern for the health of a man who ran amok, believing he could see a ghost. Kane James Duncan, who works in a local Poundshop…
AZUZA Coffee Shop in the Courtyard off Hungerford High Street, has closed to make way for a new venture. Azuza, which was established as an independent…
MYSTERY surrounds the circumstances of a fatal crash in Speen, an inquest heard. The hearing in Newbury on Wednesday, February 25, was told how fellow…
POLICE found a Newbury man slumped, semi conscious, over the counter at McDonalds, town magistrates heard. As Christopher James Little slid down the serving…
