In this week's Newbury Weekly News....
IN this week’s Newbury Weekly News, a community is in mourning for the victim of the latest fatal A4 crash.
James Ballantyne was an “intelligent, delightful” young man whose bright future was tragically wiped out.
In other news, community groups have pleaded with developers and the council not to knock down the place they call home.
The fifteen groups that use the Newbury Quaker’s home at 1 Highfield Avenue as a meeting place fear they will be left homeless by plans to redevelop the Market Street area of Newbury.
Also this week, a blunder from West Berkshire council officers has delayed a key decision being made.
Last week the authority were due to vote on whether to use its compulsory purchase powers to buy land needed to deliver an access road from Faraday Road onto the A339. However, eagle-eyed councillors spotted a “technical error in the drawings” and the item was pulled from the agenda at the last minute.
Meanwhile, it was Newbury’s big day out on Sunday. We were at the record-breaking Newbury Carnival 2015. If you missed it, check out our pages of pictures. If you were there, relive the fun.
And if we took your picture outside our carnival HQ, you’ll be starring inside our carnival feature.
In this week’s Hungerford edition of the Newbury Weekly News, Eddington residents are “beyond frustrated” to learn planning chiefs are powerless to stop an unauthorised development.
In Thatcham this week, concerns have been raised yet again over plans to convert the Black Horse pub into housing.
Residents and the town council raised their objections last week, saying that the already congested road would suffer as a result of additional traffic.
And on the Hampshire pages, Tadley Town Council dug deeper into taxpayer’s money to provide an additional £40,000 to fund the construction of the town’s £885,000 new youth centre, following an unexpected discovery at the site.
Our award-winning augmented reality image this week is Diplodocus. The sauropod, with a name meaning double beam, lived during the Jurassic period and is best known for its long whip-like tail.
Download the newburyi3d app from Google Play or the App Store to bring this beast to life.
Our commemorative coverage of the First World War looks at the last two tragic letters exchanged between a sniper from Great Shefford and his mother, whose last letter to him was returned to her unopened.
As always, there’s also a roundup of the week’s entertainment and sport, and of course this week’s £25 free fuel giveaway.
