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It has also put the brakes on his dream to build a school in Sierra Leone, after he formed a registered charity last year to raise to funds for the building work.
Also this week, Thornford Park Hospital has beefed up its security after one of its patients escaped in July.
John Maguire, a medium risk psychiatric patient, used knotted bed sheets to scale the 5.2 metre fence before being arrested four days later at Birmingham New Street station.
The hospital said it will install extra CCTV cameras and lighting as well as keeping up its external perimeter patrols.
In other news, a teenage Lambourn jockey who was paralysed in a car crash has defied doctors by walking again - with help from the world’s first bionic leg.
Nineteen-year-old Katie Watson was cut from the wreckage with a broken neck and a crushed spinal cord.
But now, thanks to five months of intensive therapy at the Injured Jockey Fund’s Oaksey House rehabilitation centre in Lambourn, she is not only walking again but is also regularly riding her horse.
Meanwhile, over the last few months, the Newbury Weekly News photographers have been out and about to 67 schools (listed below) taking photos of reception and early years classes for our First Class supplement which publishes today.
So if you spent time tucking in shirts and flattening hair and want to see the results, pick up a copy of the Newbury Weekly News today with its free 24-page First Class supplement inside.
Plus, a woman whose Inkpen home was struck by fire last week has praised the efforts of the fire crews who attended and has sent a public thank you to them for saving her house and her possessions.
The fire was thought to have started in the chimney breast before spreading to the cottage’s thatched roof last Thursday night.
As always, there’s also a roundup of the week’s entertainment and sport, and of course this week’s £25 free fuel giveaway.
All this, plus more, in the Newbury Weekly News, on sale every Thursday.



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