Don't miss this week's Newbury Weekly News
Read the full story as our newsdesk was inundated with calls and prompts on our social network sites from readers reacting as police riot vans and the helicopter circled the town for hours on end.
For the full story see this week’s edition, along with news of a man who climbed an 80ft crane before being talked down by police praising the force for their actions.
Elsewhere as an application by the Middleton family to alter part of their Chapel Row home has not been made public on West Berkshire Council’s website.
The council has moved to explain why it has taken the unusual step.
It has emerged that one of the owners of Sandleford Park, controversially outlined as a site for up to 2,000 homes to the anger of many in the district, Lady Ana Wyndham-Quin, opposed a smaller development in her own town of County Limerick in Ireland.
She has been branded a “hypocrite” by Sandleford campaigners.
In other news a group of screaming children looked on in horror as a police dog mauled a deer so badly the animal had to be put down during an incident at Greenham Common on Sunday.
We have big news concerning the struggles of Newbury Blues rugby team in colourful packed pages of sport.
Find out how your local side fared this week.
As March arrives we also bring you a fresh set of listings, with plenty to do and see across the district, alongside reviews of shows and gigs that have taken place.
Our free fuel giveaway also continues apace, so to find out if you are due a free fill-up pick up your copy of the Newbury Weekly News, on sale every Thursday.