In this week's Newbury Weekly News
IN this week’s Newbury Weekly News, the other side to the Parkway housing ‘scandal’ was revealed this week after a private home buyer told the NWN of his anger at not being able to move in to his property almost a year after exchanging contracts.
In other news, plans for the single biggest planning application in West Berkshire’s history will be on display at an exhibition in Newbury next week.
Also this week, a £500,000 revamp to Newbury’s historic Victoria Park got the go ahead after Newbury Town Council’s plans for a new café was approved.
The new café facilities will replace the existing kiosk at the park and council officers described the new proposal as “the jewel in the crown of Victoria Park.”
Meanwhile, The urgent replacement of Theale Primary School is in Theale Parish Council’s hands West Berkshire Officers told residents at a meeting.
The district council has identified its chosen site for the Outstanding rated school on land which the parish council rents from Englefield Estates, meaning the parish must agree to relinquish five acres for the project.
In this week’s Hungerford edition of the Newbury Weekly News, it’s all eyes on the skies as a resident snaps an eerie, bright disc-shaped object hovering over the town.
Plus: the postie who’s too scared to cross the road to deliver morning mail – and why Royal Mail has backed him.
In Thatcham this week, the long and short-term future of the Broadway toilets has been assessed in a report.
Thatcham Town Council has offered to buy the toilets for £1 and is looking at reducing the maintenance costs; in the shadow of proposals to convert the loos into retail space.
And on the Hampshire pages, a Woolton Hill boy’s fly fishing skills, learnt at the knee of his grandfather on local waterways, have netted him a place on the sport’s England youth squad.
Our award-winning augmented reality image this week is of Carcharodontosaurus. The sharp toothed lizard, which was bigger than a T-Rex can be brought to life by downloading our award winning Newburyi3d app –available from Google Play and the App store.
Our commemorative coverage of the First World War continues, this week looking at the heir to Berkshire’s biscuit Empire.
This week's article looks at the life of promising England Rugby player Ronald Poulton Palmer who was killed by a stray bullet in Belgium in 1915.
As always, there’s also a roundup of the week’s entertainment and sport, and of course this week’s £25 free fuel giveaway.
