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,…
An angler’s organisation based at Aldermaston is inviting the public to come and see “electro fishing” at a charity event to be held Friday. Seven Lakes…
IN this week’s Newbury Weekly News, a Hungerford man has spoken of his worries about his west African family, in the face of the mounting Ebola crisis…
Dracula Untold (15)Running time 92 minutesRating:*** About once a decade, the dark and loathsome figure of that legendary bloodsucker Dracula rises…
FIREFIGHTERS tackled a fire in a Jaguar in a Burghclere driveway this afternoon (Wednesday). One pump from Newbury fire station was called over the Berkshire/Hampshire…
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a immersion heater fire in a block of Newbury flats this morning (Wed). Two pumps from Newbury Fire Station were called at…
A TWO-year-old boy who accidentally locked himself in a car in Hermitage today (Wed), sprang the lock to see the approaching fire engine, sent to rescue…
OVER the last few months, the Newbury Weekly News photographers have been out and about to 67 schools (listed below) taking photos of reception and early…
FAULTY traffic lights at junction 13 of the M4 have now been fixed, the Highways Agency confirmed shortly after 4pm today (Wednesday), following three…
