A DRIVER had a lucky escape this morning (Friday) after a car flipped on its roof in Newbury. Three fire engines including two from Newbury and a third…
FIREFIGHTERS prevented a Bucklebury chimney blaze from spreading to the rest of the house this afternoon (Friday). Two pumps from Newbury Fire Station…
BEREAVED families still affected by the February death of two cyclists in Purley have told of their relief, after a High Court appeal by the man convicted…
A Thatcham entrepreneur who launched his first start-up last year and is now seeing his business grow, credits the Prince’s Trust as part of his success…
AS well-known as the events of the English Civil War and the execution of Charles I are, the terrible retribution suffered by the ‘regicides’ after the…
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a Tilehurst oven fire yesterday (Thursday) evening. Two pumps, from Dee Road Tilehurst and Caversham Road, Reading, were called…
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a flooded kitchen at a Pangbourne pub yesterday (Thursday) evening, in heavy rain. One pump from Dee Road Fire Station, Tilehurst,…
NEWBURY firefighters tackled a Hermitage 4x4 blaze yesterday (Thurs) eve. One pump was called at 11pm from Newbury Fire station to an empty 4 x 4 ablaze…
WALTERS Turkeys is celebrating after receiving a 2014 Great Taste Award. The Aldworth-based business received the award for its traditional farm-fresh,…
A WEST Berkshire fitness instructor’s campaign to fund a Sierra Leone school has been put on hold because of the Ebola crisis. Bee Jacks has also spoken…
A mortgage broker has been jailed for his part in a £30m scam. Fifty-eight-year-old Nicholas Pomroy, who lived at Heath End Road, Baughurst, was led to…
[caption id="attachment_103503" align="alignright" width="345"] Wash Common resident Dave Browne (middle) at the Hackney Picturehouse. On the right is…
A NEWBURY man was caught drink driving after a fight with a friend, Newbury magistrates heard. Clare Barclay, prosecuting, said that officers caught up…
A WOOLTON Hill paddock where wildlife and nature once flourished in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this week became a mudbath, after diggers moved…
A MAN was hit and killed by a train at the notorious Ufton Nervet level crossing last night (Thurs). Services were disrupted for much of the evening after…
A POLICE crackdown on rural crime along the A4 in Padworth yesterday (Wed) proved a success, with ten unroadworthy vehicles banned. Other vehicles without…
A TEENAGE Lambourn jockey who was paralysed in a car crash has defied doctors by walking again - with help from the world’s first bionic leg. Nineteen-year-old…
LAMBOURN Valley residents watched, incredulous, as a drunken grandmother careered past their homes while the car almost disintegrated around her, Newbury…
THE popular BBC political debate programme Question Time will be broadcast from St Bartholomew’s School in Newbury this evening (Thursday). Among the…
THE success of the annual Chapel Row Fayre was applauded on Tuesday night as £7,000 was handed over to six local charities. The committee behind the fayre,…
