AFTER last week’s A-level results, the wait is over for West Berkshire pupils receiving their GCSE grades today (Thursday). This morning thousands of…
In this week’s Newbury Weekly News, plans to tear down Greenacre Leisure health and fitness club, which so far have faced strong opposition from members…
THE Community Furniture Project and West Berkshire Mencap Link Up project have a new and larger home to help the charities grow and thrive. Greenham Common…
A NATIONAL energy firm’s decision to stop cold calling potential customers has lead to the loss of 70 jobs positions in its Thatcham office. On Friday,…
A 26-YEAR-old man has appeared in court after an altercation outside the Co-operative store in Thatcham last week. Police were called to the Broadway…
DIABETES UK is looking for volunteers with the metabolic disease in West Berkshire to help improve the quality of healthcare for all patients. The charity…
A LOCALLY-based music group for people with learning and physical disabilities has decided to call it a day. Time Spanners, which formed in 2000, will…
GUIDE Dogs is appealing to West Berkshire businesses to give a home to collection boxes that could help fund the guide dogs of the future. Twenty guide…
OUR keen snappers have been out and about this week taking pictures of what they consider to be ‘My Newbury’. Jenny Evans captured the straw bales near…
A PART-time photographer from Thatcham has been shortlisted for the Royal Observatory Astronomy Photographer of the Year. Tim Burgess, aged 37, took a…
NEWBURY firefighters will be turning their hoses on the dirty vehicles of West Berkshire and hoping for lots of local support for their charity car wash…
THE Dogs Trust, Newbury is hoping someone can make Max a keepsake in their home. Assistant manager at Dogs Trust Newbury, Jenny Hopkins, said: “Max would…
HEARTSTART Thatcham, a scheme that teaches people lifesaving skills, held its first session recently. Twelve people completed the British Heart Foundation…
THE wait is over for thousands of pupils across West Berkshire today (Thursday). Pupils, who sat A level examinations earlier this year, will be arriving…
The Royal Berkshire Hospital is under investigation after repeatedly breaching accident and emergency waiting times. Health sector watchdog Monitor has…
ADDERS on Greenham Common will feature among the ‘celebrity’ wildlife in Britain’s Big Wildlife Revival, a new BBC One television series starting on Sunday…
THATCHAM town centre pigeons have been spared the bullet after it was agreed to try and eradicate them with a more humane method. And this new method…
IN this week’s Newbury Weekly News, commuters in West Berkshire have been dealt another blow with news that rail fares will increase by 4.1 per cent from…
PLANS to build a new renal unit at West Berkshire Community Hospital have been supporte d by Thatcham Town Council. At a meeting of its planning committee…
CHILDREN from Jubilee Day Nursery, Padworth Common, put on their tiny boots last week to take part in a fundraising activity. Staff and children at the…
