Politics

Cost-of-living issues today hail back to a conversation between the equivalent of local council leaders 230 years ago in a Newbury pub.

The redevelopment of the Kennet Centre comes up at West Berkshire Council later this week.

With North East Thatcham pencilled for an extra 2,500 homes - how will Bucklebury Common survive?

Thatcham Town Council is now going ahead with its Neighbourhood Development Plan.

The Eagle Quarter - or redevelopment of Newbury’s Kennet Centre - comes back to the council for a decision in early January.

West Berkshire charities have warned that potential cuts to NHS mental health services due to funding pressures would be “devastating”.

A service was held in Newbury to mark 10 years since British combat operations ended in Afghanistan.

The Government’s new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), published last week, is “a recipe for disaster”.

The Peace Garden on Newbury Wharf is costing more than £400k.

The so-called ‘rain gardens’ on Faraday Road have been dubbed ‘an absolute mess’.

A young West Berkshire farmer is joining a new protest against inheritance tax changes for farmers in London today (Wednesday).

Questions on why Newbury FC has been given a £400k pitch investment get raised at this week’s council executive meeting.

West Berkshire Council’s commercial property sell off continues this week.

A public consultation about future housing in Thatcham under the revised West Berkshire Local Plan is now live.

Newbury FC can now return to Farady Road again, following ‘adjustments to the internal layouts’.

The council’s Walnut Close care home is to change into an emergency housing centre, and a family contact centre.

There are around 57 individuals and families in emergency accommodation in West Berkshire.

There is a new warning that government plans to move to simpler local authorities could lead to a reconfiguration of the Hampshire council map.

Thatcham gets a new Community Connect on demand bus service - but it replaces two existing bus routes.

Newbury MP Lee Dillon has announced that he will be voting in favour of the controversial Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill tomorrow (Friday).