In this weeks Newbury Weekly News
Forecourt prices in the town for both diesel and unleaded petrol are routinely higher than in surrounding towns so Julian Swift-Hook is urging the boycott to bring prices down.
Also this week, West Berkshire has two movie stars in the making who have been hitting the headlines.
Hungerford man, Adam Brown, has spoken about the 18 months he spent in New Zealand filming as the character Ori in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and a grandmother of eight has told of the amazing moment that screen legend Dustin Hoffman telephoned to ask her to be in his latest film, Quartet.
In other news, villagers in the Lambourn Valley are continuing to suffer almost medieval conditions with raw effluent pouring down streets and into gardens, and police are urging residents to keep an eye out after a 92 year old woman became the latest victim of a distraction burglary - the third such incident in Thatcham in a month.
There’s good news all round for commuters – a three-mile section of both carriageways of the A34 between Chieveley and Beedon are to be resurfaced, a gate to ease traffic congestion following accidents on the M4 is to be installed and Network Rail has announced £9bn worth of improvements in its five year plan.
As always, there’s also a roundup of the week’s sport and entertainment news and of course this week’s £25 free fuel giveaway.
All this plus more in the Newbury Weekly News, on sale every Thursday.
