THATCHAM’S Kennet League B team will be promoted to Division 2 West after finishing top of Division 3 on 171 points, with Tilehurst B in second place…
YOUNG people between the ages of 8 and 16, inspired by the Olympic successes of Bradley Wiggins, Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton, are being invited…
BERKSHIRE have called up Slough’s Karan Kumar for their Minor Counties Cricket Championship match against Dorset at Dean Park, Bournemouth, which starts…
BEFORE Tuesday's game against Cheltenham Saracens it was announced that Newbury boss Steve Melledew had left the club. Chairman, Ian Passey issued the…
IN this week's Newbury Weekly News we look at the plan for West Berkshire to capitalise on the wave of optimism sweeping the district in the wake of the…
NEWBURY’S Arlington Arts Centre continues to cement its reputation as one of West Berkshire’s best venues for live music as it launches its autumn season…
POOR old Dr Seuss hasn’t had an easy time when it comes to film adaptations of his stories. Jim Carrey’s The Grinch and Mike Myers’ The Cat in the Hat…
IN this week's Newbury Weekly News a parish council chairman who signed up his predecessor to numerous internet dating websites as part of a campaign…
IN 2010, Katherine Gibbons, aged 31, an actor and playwright, originally from Bucklebury, took on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her first-ever scripted…
TWO shops in West Berkshire have recently been targeted by burglars. One man has been arrested following an attempted break-in in Thatcham this morning…
SHOULD you see a bearded chap standing in Chipping Norton square with his head turned towards the heavens, don’t imagine that he is a lost soul looking…
A leading West Berkshire headmaster has advised teachers not to let pupils read books that contain American spellings and bad grammar, especially in primary…
CHRISTOPER Nolan’s imposing Batman trilogy reaches its conclusion with The Dark Knight Rises, a masculine and rather grim-faced action movie of a type…
IN this week’s Hungerford edition of the Newbury Weekly News a woman whose cat was poisoned by antifreeze has launched a campaign to force manufacturers…
IN this week’s Newbury Weekly News we bring you a round up of how West Berkshire welcomed in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Read about street parties,…
THE critically-acclaimed award winning Newbury Youth Theatre perform their new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories at the Corn Exchange, Newbury,…
IN this week's Newbury Weekly News we bring you extensive coverage of the explosive end to the David Burgess Beenham murder trial. Justice finally arrived…
Magic Mike (15)Review rating **Channing Tatum stars as Magic Mike, a thirty-something builder and odd-job man who works at a male strip club on the side.Mike…
THE man found guilty of murdering a Beenham nanny 46 years ago is due to be sentenced today (Monday). Sixty-four-year-old David Burgess, formerly of Stoneyfield,…
In this week's Newbury Weekly News the curious death of a Newbury couple, former GP David Arnold and his wife Betty, has shocked the community as heartfelt…
