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More changes for Bear Hotel?

More changes for Bear Hotel?

GREENE King brewery has proposed making changes to the outside of the historic Bear Hotel in Hungerford. The proposed changes involve new signage.In particular,…


Accident closes A339 northbound near Robin Hood

Accident closes A339 northbound near Robin Hood

A STRETCH of the A339 northbound in central Newbury has been closed due to a multi-vehicle accident, causing severe delays to rush hour motorists this…


Multi-million pound upgrade at Theale station finally departs

Multi-million pound upgrade at Theale station finally departs

DELAYED work to provide a multimillion pound upgrade to Theale station is set to begin this month. Commuters are set to benefit from a £2.9m investment…


Town draw league rivals in Vase

Town draw league rivals in Vase

THATCHAM TOWN have been handed an unappetising tie in the opening round of the FA Vase. The consolation is that they will be at home to fellow Hellenic…


Blues shoved to first defeat

Blues shoved to first defeat

Towcestrians 50 Newbury Blues 14 BLUES' perfect start to the season ended abruptly as they found last season’s South West One East runners-up Towcestrians…


Double crack in the Vase

Double crack in the Vase

IT was not second time lucky for Newbury as they crashed out of the FA Vase to a Reading Town side that had won at Faraday Road the previous week in the…


98, 99 and 10-man Hungerford get home

98, 99 and 10-man Hungerford get home

Hungerford Town 2 Hitchin Town 1 MARK Draycott is one goal away from his century for the club after netting twice to see 10-man Hungerford into fourth…


Mayor of Newbury visits Oxford children's hospice after £1.5m refurbishment

Mayor of Newbury visits Oxford children's hospice after £1.5m refurbishment

THE MAYOR of Newbury recently (Sept 16) visited an Oxford children’s hospice, re-opened after a £1.5m refurbishment. The charity, Helen & Douglas…


Old Stryker headquarters on Hambridge Road demolished

Old Stryker headquarters on Hambridge Road demolished

GOING, going, gone. The former Stryker headquarters on Hambridge Road were demolished last week.Stryker, the global leaders in medical technology that…


Monks Lane road works start tonight (Monday)

Monks Lane road works start tonight (Monday)

THERE will be no access to or from the A343 Andover Road into Monks Lane or Essex Street from tonight (Monday) as resurfacing works are carried out. It…


Homeless man caught with knife in Parkway was making sandwiches

Homeless man caught with knife in Parkway was making sandwiches

A HOMELESS man spotted with a knife in the Parkway shopping centre in Newbury was simply using it to make sandwiches, magistrates heard on Thursday September…


Sainsbury's Newbury boost funds for local bereavement charity

Sainsbury's Newbury boost funds for local bereavement charity

FUNDS for a West Berkshire charity offering support for the bereaved and their families have been boosted by over £1,100, just three months into a year-long…


St Modwen still on for town regeneration, say West Berkshire Council

St Modwen still on for town regeneration, say West Berkshire Council

REGENERATION plans for a corner of Newbury will not be scuppered by the appointed developer recently pulling out of a similar scheme in Bognor Regis,…


Newbury Tesco Extra to get new car wash and valet

Newbury Tesco Extra to get new car wash and valet

TESCO Extra in Newbury is set to get a new nine bay hand car wash and valeting area. The proposals have been put in by Waves Cosultancy, a privately owned…


What's on Sunday

What's on Sunday

This Sunday sees food, fumes and fugues come to West Berkshire, with festivals, shows and recitals all on offer. The streets of Hungerford are alive this…


A seasonal ice rink on the cards for Victoria Park's boating pond

A seasonal ice rink on the cards for Victoria Park's boating pond

VICTORIA Park’s boating lake could be transformed into an ice-skating rink every winter if plans to change its water source are implemented. The chairman…


Resurfacing works start on Monks Lane tomorrow (Monday)

Resurfacing works start on Monks Lane tomorrow (Monday)

RESURFACING work will begin at the double roundabouts at the junctions of Monks Lane and the A343 Andover Road in Wash Common tomorrow (Monday). It is…


Thatcham woman completes 10k race for Crohn’s charity

Thatcham woman completes 10k race for Crohn’s charity

A THATCHAM woman with a life-altering disease has raised thousands of pounds for a charity close to her heart. Karen May was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease,…


Gentle Jasper seeks loving home to banish dark memories

Gentle Jasper seeks loving home to banish dark memories

GENTLE Jasper the lurcher is seeking the comforts of home, to banish dark memories of street life as a stray. Jasper, who was found as a stray, is seeking…


Police investigate burglary at Hungerford antiques store

Police investigate burglary at Hungerford antiques store

POLICE have been at the Great Grooms Antiques store in Hungerford today following a burglary in the early hours of this morning (Saturday).It has not…


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