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Year 13 students celebrated their last day at Kennet School on Friday (May 9).

Thatcham Town Council has elected a new mayoral team.

The yellow, white and blue ribbons shining in the sun can only mean one thing: Hocktide has returned to Hungerford for 2025.

A slightly different item was up for discussion at Thatcham Town Council’s Finance and General Purposes Committee meeting on Tuesday, April 28.

Extravagantly decorated poles, top hats and petticoats: the Tutti Day - or Hocktide - celebrations are back.

A repair café recently enjoyed a blast from the past when a local couple brought in a vintage reel-to-reel tape recorder.

An annual cute cat photography competition held in Tadley has showcased the best-looking felines in the area.

Drunk squaddies pinching a statue from its pride of place to widespread outcry.

Film crews have been spotted again at Greenham Common.

Greenham Control Tower is opening a new digital exhibition room to make the site’s rich heritage accessible to everyone.

A memorial service has been held to mark the sinking of Newbury’s lost wartime submarine.

Newbury’s largest cemetery remains closed after a grave sunk into the ground last weekend (February 22 and 23).

On this day 130 years ago, tragedy struck in Newbury.

Hundreds of starlings were spotted flying over Hampstead Norreys on Sunday evening.

Thatcham Rotary Club has celebrated Burns Night (Saturday, January 25) in style.

A new display of unusual plants has been created at an indoor rainforest.

Tucked inside an old graveyard in Newbury is a monument worthy of a scene in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.

This picture is a quick Christmas peek inside St Mary’s Church, Aldworth, revealing sleeping giants among festive flowers, taken by Tracey Godsmark.

The Newbury Weekly News goes to print on a Wednesday afternoon.

Highclere Castle has been crowned one of the grandest stately homes in the UK.