In this week's Newbury Weekly News
Some have described the proposal as “a barrack building in an army camp” and Newbury Town Council, at its meeting on Monday, also raised objections to the plans.
In other news, a chartered accountant who was “severely depressed” after losing his job, fell to his death from the A34 bridge in Newbury.
An inquest has heard that Alexander Douglas Muir, aged 52, was behaving in a “bizarre manner” on the wrong side of the safety railings at the Enborne Street flyover.
Moments later he was seen falling to his death.
Also this week, a Newbury man took to the Parkrun track for 12 hours recently to raise funds for cancer charity Marie Curie.
Staggering as it seems, this is just one of Paul Stout’s many challenges he has set himself to raise as much money as he can in 2013 for the charity, having already participated in the Reading Roadrunners Bramley 20 run and the 50-mile ‘Thames trot’ earlier this year.
Meanwhile, Red Nose Day events are well and truly underway in West Berkshire and there’s a lot more still to come.
Pick up a copy of the paper to see what has been happening so far and what other mad antics are on the horizon.
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.