In this week's Newbury Weekly News

In this week’s Newbury Weekly News, a well-known Newbury athlete has been jailed for child sex offences involving girls aged 12 and 15.

David Fry, who has a string of race wins under his belt including the Bayer 10k run, told detectives he felt he had “done nothing wrong.”

He was also banned from working with children after telling jurors he had coached around 30 youngsters.

In other news, the elections are finally over and we have a full round-up of all of the parliamentary, district, town and parish election results, plus all the reaction from the winners and the losers.

In the Newbury constituency Richard Benyon celebrated his parties “blue dawn” and we hear all of the reaction from the runners-up in the battle for Newbury.

it was a blue moon that shone above West Berkshire last Friday evening as the Conservative Party continued the national trend by dominating the district council elections.

Less than 24 hours after the Tories formed a majority government and Richard Benyon was re-elected as Newbury MP, the party took 48 of the 52 available seats on West Berkshire Council.
It turned out to be a disastrous day for the Liberal Democrats locally and nationally as they lost nine of their 13 district council seats, including key wards in Thatcham and Newbury.

Also this week, a survivor of the 2004 Ufton Nervet rail tragedy has spoken of her relief after plans to replace the level crossing with a bridge were submitted.
The rail giant formally submitted the plans last month and Jane Hawker, who escaped the tragedy with minor injuries said it was “a relief all round”.

Meanwhile, Newbury joined in with national events to celebrate and commemorate the 70th anniversary of VE Day.

Veterans and their families were invited to a 1940s themed picnic in Victoria Park to pay tribute to those who suffered and fought to defeat Nazism.

In this week’s Hungerford edition of the Newbury Weekly News, an old soldier goes back to the pub where he first celebrated VE Day as a boy.

But this time Wally Hunt swapped his lemonade for a pint of ale.

In Thatcham this week, the town’s stock of affordable housing is set to increase as two sites are being bought forward for development.

The council has reached an agreement with Sovereign to demolish Taceham House, while a contract is expected to be signed for the former recycling facility in Pound Lane.

And on the Hampshire pages, see how your political landscape has changed, if at all, with our coverage of the north west Hampshire constituency and Basingstoke and Deane elections.

Our series of astronomical augmented reality images continue with Mars.

You won’t need to sign up for a one way trip to the red planet if you download our award winning Newburyi3d app –available from Google Play and the App store.

Our commemorative coverage of the First World War continues its focus on the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.

This week, we look at Welford and Wickham soldier Frank Martin who signed his name for the Berkshire Yeomanry only to die at sea after being wounded in the campaign.

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.