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Some Newbury Spring Festival treats for the weekend

17 July 2020
Some Newbury Spring Festival treats for the weekend

Some Newbury Spring Festival treats for the weekend

17 July 2020

Live performance streaming While Newbury Spring Festival wasnn't able to present the usual fortnight of world-class music in May, not everything has come…


It's a wrap for Newbury's Watermill theatre

14 July 2020
It's a wrap for Newbury's Watermill theatre

It's a wrap for Newbury's Watermill theatre

14 July 2020

Missing Theatre Live tape spreads message of Covid-19's impact The Watermill Theatre has joined theatres up and down the country taking action to highlight…


Not just for bumpkins, this was the original West Berks workshirt

13 July 2020
Not just for bumpkins, this was the original West Berks workshirt

Not just for bumpkins, this was the original West Berks workshirt

13 July 2020

Highlights of the West Berkshire Museum : smocks With children’s smock dresses recently featured on the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee, we…


Didcot Railway Centre 2999 project up for prestigious national heritage ward

11 July 2020
Didcot Railway Centre 2999 project up for prestigious national heritage ward

Didcot Railway Centre 2999 project up for prestigious national heritage ward

11 July 2020

Shortlisted museum up against tough competition THE 21-acre living museum Didcot Railway Centre – the go-to place for many local families –…


Time for tea at the Watermill, the cream of riverside theatres

11 July 2020
Time for tea at the Watermill, the cream of riverside theatres

Time for tea at the Watermill, the cream of riverside theatres

11 July 2020

Garden cafĂ© opens in Bagnor WHILE the Bagnor theatre remains closed, on Monday, The Watermill will open an outdoor Riverside Café, serving lunch,…


Young voices recruited to share Newbury's lockdown experience in Unlocked & Unbolted

11 July 2020
Young voices recruited to share Newbury's lockdown experience in Unlocked & Unbolted

Young voices recruited to share Newbury's lockdown experience in Unlocked & Unbolted

11 July 2020

Corn Exchange Zoom conversations with 14-21s for theatre piece CORN Exchange is inviting young people across the country to take part in Unlocked and…


Newbury Corn Exchange responds to Oliver Dowden announcement on outdoor performance

10 July 2020
Newbury Corn Exchange responds to Oliver Dowden announcement on outdoor performance

Newbury Corn Exchange responds to Oliver Dowden announcement on outdoor performance

10 July 2020

Recommencing with a socially-distanced audience 'fantastic' Yesterday, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Oliver Dowden announced…


Barmy Britain comes to Newbury Racecourse Car Park Party

08 July 2020
Barmy Britain comes to Newbury Racecourse Car Park Party

Barmy Britain comes to Newbury Racecourse Car Park Party

08 July 2020

Drive-in Horrible Histories - well Richard III knew a thing or two about car parks Arts Editor TRISH LEE talks to Horrible Histories’ Neal Foster…


Newbury Corn Exchange welcomes government arts support package

06 July 2020
Newbury Corn Exchange welcomes government arts support package

Newbury Corn Exchange welcomes government arts support package

06 July 2020

'We need to work fast' Today's Government announcement of a £1.57bn package of support for the arts sector in the form of emergency loans and grants…


Rainbow Corona Angels a thank-you to the NHS

05 July 2020
Rainbow Corona Angels a thank-you to the NHS

Rainbow Corona Angels a thank-you to the NHS

05 July 2020

West Woodhay ceramics cottage industry inspired by Dutch heritage THE cottage industry of West Woodhay designers/makers of ceramic hanging decorations,…


BBC newsreader's surprise dual life: Art and the Airwaves

05 July 2020
 BBC newsreader's surprise dual life: Art and the Airwaves

BBC newsreader's surprise dual life: Art and the Airwaves

05 July 2020

Kingsclere's Arlene Fleming exhibits in the @newburytoday gallery ARLENE Fleming’s working life is split between two studios – the art studio…


Challenges ahead as Corn Exchange can open, but without live events

02 July 2020
Challenges ahead as Corn Exchange can open, but without live events

Challenges ahead as Corn Exchange can open, but without live events

02 July 2020

"We continue to look forward" says director As lockdown eases and the Corn Exchange is permitted to open to the public again, but without ‘live’…


Newbury tour manager's road to lockdown

01 July 2020
Newbury tour manager's road to lockdown

Newbury tour manager's road to lockdown

01 July 2020

Live music industry ground to a halt overnight Mick Brown’s main occupation these days is tour manager, but he also considers himself a production…


West Berkshire Museum curator talks about decolonising museum collections

30 June 2020
West Berkshire Museum curator talks about decolonising museum collections

West Berkshire Museum curator talks about decolonising museum collections

30 June 2020

Highlights from the West Berkshire Museum Collection by curator Janine Fox Continuing our 'Highlights from the West Berkshire Museum Collection' series,…


New novel for Greenham author

25 June 2020
New novel for Greenham author

New novel for Greenham author

25 June 2020

Detective story Comedian discovers the unexpected THERE’s a new novel just out by Greenham author Derek Ansell. Comedian follows the private detective…


EDM the way to go for Tomay

25 June 2020
EDM the way to go for Tomay

EDM the way to go for Tomay

25 June 2020

Drummer, 17, produces first electronic dance music album in lockdown NEWBURY teenager Thomas Moores has just released his first album Trip.P under his…


And the band played on

25 June 2020
And the band played on

And the band played on

25 June 2020

Audiences starved of live Shakespeare would lap it up Twelfth Night, in front rooms everywhere, from Friday, June 12, to Sunday, June 14 Review by Jon…


Virtual adventures

25 June 2020
Virtual adventures

Virtual adventures

25 June 2020

Another screen success where children can interact with others Up, Up, Up and Away, in front rooms everywhere, on Saturday, June 13 Review by Jon Lewis WITH…


Marlborough LitFest cancelled

16 June 2020
Marlborough LitFest cancelled

Marlborough LitFest cancelled

16 June 2020

September weekend for booklovers called off IT became increasingly inevitable, but booklovers were hoping otherwise, that Marlborough LitFest would be…


The old boneshaker has come a long way

14 June 2020
The old boneshaker has come a long way

The old boneshaker has come a long way

14 June 2020

Celebrating the bicycle through photographs from West Berkshire Museum's collection Bicycles revolutionised human transportation; they are a convenient,…


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