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As many of his contemporaries take tentative steps to university, or their first post-college jobs, 19-year-old Luke Thomas, who is officially the UK’s…
A NEWBURY nursery school has been judged outstanding following a recent inspection. Ofsted visited Victoria Park Nursery School and Children’s Centre…
THE school meals provider responsible for delivering lunches to thousands of children across West Berkshire could itself be heading for the waste bin.…
A NEWBURY Labour party firebrand has been accused of fabricating an invitation to stand as the local Liberal Democrat candidate in the next general election…
MORE than 20 drug dealers have been taken off the streets of Newbury and Thatcham following an unprecedented police offensive. Five convictions on Friday…
AS Downton Abbey fever grips the nation again one wag has decided to twin the fictional stately home with the village in which parts of the programme…
WEST Berkshire Council is to axe 30 posts in a bid to save money. The decision was made in an announcement that the council’s plan to save £7.4million…
THE chairman of the Thames Valley Police Authority has pulled out of the race to become the region’s first Police and Crime Commissioner and slammed the…
NO schools in the district are at risk of closure, according to West Berkshire Council despite a report it commissioned revealing a multi-million pound…
CALLING all cars. Roads through Newbury, Hungerford and Thatcham are in disarray following a number of serious accidents today (Friday).A two vehicle…
THE six-month Government set deadline for Grundon to appeal the refusal of its Chieveley incinerator plan has passed. West Berkshire Council threw out…
The M4 between Hungerford and Chieveley was plunged into chaos today after an overturned lorry shed rubble and concrete onto the road. The lorry was travelling…
A WOKINGHAM firm is £50,000 out of pocket after it allowed two self-employed Newbury men to unwittingly drill through an asbestos ceiling at Reading University.…
A NEWBURY man pinned back and stabbed in the eye, chest and armpits during a frenzied knife attack told a court of his anguish at escaping the ordeal…
A NEWBURY couple have marked 25 years of wedded bliss by renewing their wedding vows in the name of charity. Carol and Robin Adams raised about £600 for…
WEST Berkshire Council’s planning department has joined the social media revolution. Planning applications submitted to the council will now appear on…
A “MAGNIFICENT” multi-million pound dementia care home large enough to cater for 80 residents is to be built in Newbury. West Berkshire Council gave healthcare…
THE former Liberal Democrat MP for Newbury will not to stand in the next general election. Signalling the end of a political era, Mr Rendel, aged 63,…
BUCKLEBURY Beerfest enjoyed a bumper fourth birthday on Saturday. Hundreds attended the annual beer festival at the Recreation Ground in Bucklebury, taking…
KNIVES glinting under street-lights and casual threats of murder were the subject of witness statements in the second week of a murder trial which has…
