18 May 2013
Purley CE Infant School will be launching a ‘buy a brick’ scheme at its World Spring Fair today (Saturday) to help raise money for two new classrooms.…
18 May 2013
NEWBURYTODAY.CO.UK is pleased to carry the results for the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust’s weekly lottery. The air ambulance has responded…
18 May 2013
THE LARGEST canal boat in England is to complete its maiden voyage along the Kennet and Avon Canal, where it will become a floating summer hotel. At 70ft…
17 May 2013
LESS than a week after five arrests were made in Newbury in a drugs raid, another man has been arrested. On Tuesday, Thames Valley Police arrested a man,…
17 May 2013
A BLOCK of flats in Newbury was evacuated last night following a spate of arsons. Firefighters from Newbury and Dee Road were called to Carnegie Road,…
17 May 2013
A HORSE box has overturned on the M4. One westbound lane has been closed and there are reports of queuing traffic between junctions 13 and 14.A spokesman…
17 May 2013
TEN of West Berkshire’s most precious commons and nature reserves will be handed over to a wildlife trust for management as early as this summer if cost-cutting…
17 May 2013
THAMES Valley Police’s defiant Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has accused critics of a political smear campaign over claims he established “sham”…
17 May 2013
THE headteacher of St Bartholomew’s School, Newbury, is to retire at the end of the year. Christina Haddrell announced that she would be bringing her…
17 May 2013
THE date for this year’s Newbury Waterways Festival has been announced as June 23. At the annual event, organised by the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust,…
17 May 2013
THE Thatcham Lifelong Learning Forum will be hosting a week of exhibitions and free live demonstrations as part of Thatcham’s first Adult Learners’ Week…
17 May 2013
East Ilsley’s mystery ‘fisherman’ has been moored up so long in a flooded field that he has started a business selling on his catch. The fisherman caused…
16 May 2013
MANAGEMENT at Aldermaston's Atomic Weapons Establishment presided over a "constellation of failures" in a fire which could have claimed many lives, a…
16 May 2013
A multi-vehicle collision has occurred on the A34 this afternoon (Thursday). One southbound lane has been blocked at Langley Wood, near the Beedon turn-off,…
16 May 2013
Newbury-based Simply Great Drinks Company is bringing its rickshaw to Sainsbury’s on Hector’s Way on Friday, August 8 to sample its deliciously…
16 May 2013
A MAN died following an accident on the A34 this morning (Thurs). Around 1.45am, a BMW came off the northbound carriageway about a mile south of the Tothill…
16 May 2013
A FORMER Thatcham woman has been jailed for 14 months for fraudulently claiming benefits totalling almost £120,000. On May 10, Tracey Pembroke, aged 41…
16 May 2013
THE ATOMIC Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston was due to be sentenced today (Thursday) after a fire at the base. The charge relates to a major…
16 May 2013
A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to nine years in jail for stabbing a man in Reading, leaving him with life-threatening injuries. Marlon Rowe, of…
16 May 2013
IN this week’s Newbury Weekly News, West Berkshire Council has announced it is to hand over the management of the district’s precious wildlife reserves…
