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Residents in Beenham fear that a new “Dale Farm” could be built on their doorstep and so many have logged objection letters that the issue is to go straight to West Berkshire Council’s Eastern Area Planning Committee next Wednesday.
Family and friends have paid tribute to a Newbury woman who died on the motorway last week.
Thirty-eight-year-old Kaja Lerum Sammartino of Donnington Square died last Tuesday and this week her husband has described her as a “generous, humble and caring” woman and mother.
In other news, Newbury Town Council has received information which many help identify the cause of subsidence and cracks in Victoria Park but the information is still not being made public and this year’s Poppy Appeal was officially launched at Armed Forces Day at the weekend.
There’s good news for a row of cottages in West Mills which are to be restored to their former character after they were “inappropriately” converted to offices in the 1980s and a Thatcham yummy mummy has scooped two awards at national fitness and beauty competition Miss Galaxy Universe.
Also this week, star of Oscar-winning silent movie The Artist, Uggie, attended a book signing at WH Smith.
The canine celebrity appeared with his Los Angeles trainer, Omar Von Muller, and Suffolk-based author Wendy Holden, who penned Uggie, The Artist: My Story, the biography of one of Hollywood’s favourite dogs.
There is also a special spread of pictures showing how West Berkshire celebrated Hallowe’en.
Why not pick up a copy of the paper to see images from the ghoulish goings-on.
All this and we have free fuel to give away.
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