A CURRIDGE man has successfully sued his former employer, HM Revenue and Customs, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer following years of exposure…
THREE years ago West Berkshire diver Chris Mears was given a five per cent chance of surviving life threatening surgery, now the teenager is on the brink…
LIFE’s a beach for three days at Newbury Rugby Football Club starting today (Friday) and continuing over the weekend (July 13 to 15), at a charity fundraising…
A FLYPAST by an RAF Hawk trainer jet, painted red, white and blue in honour of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, was the highlight of the day at a north Hampshire…
THE streets of West Berkshire are back to normal today (Thursday). You wouldn’t know that 24-hours ago the Olympic flame was travelling through West Berkshire.Yesterday…
IN THIS week’s Hungerford edition of the Newbury Weekly News, we report on the floods that threatened to swamp homes in Hungerford and Great Bedwyn. Inside…
DEFENDER Nicky Shorey is returning to Reading. The left back, who played 286 times for the royals in a seven year spell from 2001 to 2008, and was voted…
IN this week’s Newbury Weekly News, see how West Berkshire residents welcomed the Olympic Torch to the district in style. More than 15,000 people are…
THE BARRISTER defending a convicted double murderer claims his client is innocent of murdering a Newbury nanny for which he is now standing trial and…
The Amazing Spider-Man (12A)Review rating ***Does anyone still care about Spider-Man? It’s the question that first came to my mind when I saw the trailer…
THERE was a glimmer of hope this week for a Newbury 10-year-old who has been in a medically induced coma since being struck by a car. Dorota Hajduk had…
MAYPOLE dancing was part of the fun of the fete at a Woolton Hill Infant’s school. Held recently at St Thomas’ Infant School, a fun filled craft and cookery…
DIAMONDS and gold is the glittering theme bestowed on this year’s Newbury Waterways Festival - to take place in Victoria Park on Sunday July 22. The theme…
POOR Lynn Davies is in the doghouse with son James - after selling his favourite toy at a car boot sale. The rocking horse, which had been hers as a little…
MORE than 15,000 people alone are estimated to have crowded into Newbury town centre today to see the Olympic flame complete its West Berkshire phase…
THOUSANDS of excited men, women and children lined the streets of West Berkshire this morning as the Olympic flame came to the district. It all started…
OLYMPIC 400 metre hopeful Rob Tobin has paid a special visit to Newbury Athletics Club. Members of the club were treated to an Olympic standard warm-up…
A WOOLTON Hill man has completed a sponsored cross country bicycle ride, after climbing back in the saddle following a cardiac arrest during the ride…
IMPROVED facilities for children and young people in Kingsclere are back in the offing, with a decision on a planning application likely in the next few…
Newbury firefighters were called to Chieveley service station off the M4 this afternoon, following a huge spillage of diesel after a collision between…