COMMUTERS’ views are being sought on the upgrades to Theale station. The station is set to benefit from a £2.9m upgrade, which includes a new footbridge,…
THE curtain concession department within Camp Hopson furniture centre, Park Way, closed recently with the loss of three jobs. The managing director of…
A REUNION for the class of 1993 at Little Heath School, Tilehurst, is being held this month to coincide with the recovery of a former pupil who has had…
WILLIAM Haggas will have a fancied chance when he sends out Saayerr in Saturday’s Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury. The two-year old has won…
PEOPLE in West Berkshire are being warned about a new bank card scam sweeping across the country. Courier fraud, which often targets the elderly and the…
AN appeal has been launched after a man was beaten during an attack in a Thatcham alleyway. The 24-year-old victim was approached by a man between Station…
Newbury 1 Thame Utd 1 NEWBURY salvaged a point after withstanding a Thame assault at Faraday Road on Saturday. The home side were marshalled at the back…
Hungerford Town 4 Cove 0 HUNGERFORD eventually coasted into a Second Qualifying Round FA Cup tie at Bashley on September 28 after Saturday’s win over…
Reading 26 Newbury Blues 15 NEWBURY BLUES could not repeat last season’s survival-winning act at Reading as they went down on Saturday to find themselves…
RAIL communters are experiencing delays and cancellations to some services to and from Newbury today (Mon) due to overunning engineering work from the…
AFFORDABLE housing in the Parkway Living complex in Newbury has not been made available to the public despite it being completed and ready for occupation…
LESS than a year since construction began on the 1,500-home development at The Racecourse Newbury, the first occupants have moved into the affordable…
A POLICE officer was forced to use an incapacitant spray on a Kintbury woman, Newbury magistrates heard last Thursday. A frightened officer used Captor…
THE leader of Newbury Town Council Julian Swift-Hook says he shares residents’ frustrations that the cause of cracks and subsidence to Victoria Park is…
THAMES Valley Police force is largely achieving its detection targets - but violence against the person is up. The figures were revealed at a policy,…
A WHEELCHAIR basketball-playing teenager from Thatcham has competed with Team GB in the UK’s first National Paralympic Day games. aged 17, of The Frances,…
MISSING Speen schoolgirl Rebecca Herbert has been found safe and well. The 14-year-old had been missing since Friday (13), but has now been reunited with…
[caption id="attachment_82905" align="alignleft" width="227"] Thatcham's Gordon Ballantyne[/caption] THATCHAM had to settle for runners-up spot in the…
A FILM documenting forgiveness in the apartheid era produced by a man from Newbury has won an international award. Beyond Forgiving tells a story of trauma…
IT’S the end of an era as Lambourn’s Universal Stores is up for sale. Forty-five years ago this month a young villager named Ros Couch took over as manager…