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IN this week’s Newbury Weekly News, the future of Newbury Football Club is hanging in the balance.
The club have been served notice on their current ground in Faraday Road - their home since 1963 - and have to be out by June 2016 so that West Berkshire Council can redevelop the London Road Industrial Estate (LRIE).
Last week the council said it “was not duty bound” to find them another site leaving them just 10 months to find somewhere else.
In other news, the ‘scandal’ of affordable housing lying empty at Parkway may be a step closer to being resolved – but West Berkshire Council and developer Standard Life Investments (SLI) are still embroiled in a row over car parking revenue worth almost £1m.
Also this week, plans have now been submitted for the second phase of Newbury’s “super surgery” which will bring two surgeries into one site at Strawberry Hill House.
An application has been put in for the demolition of one of the two surgeries which will become “surplus to requirements” once the double-surgery is finished – at St Mary’s Road.
Planners hope to turn the site into 14 new flats if West Berkshire Council approves the scheme.
Meanwhile, more than 60,000 people are expected to have attended this year’s Royal County of Berkshire Show.
Our team was reporting on the weekend’s events; so see our 10 pages of coverage for stories of dancing sheep, racing Shetland ponies and a Kangaroo Kid.
In this week’s Hungerford edition of the Newbury Weekly News, the town council accuses West Berkshire Council of reneging on an £85,000 promise.
Plus, developers put the finishing touches to an ‘unauthorised’ build, while planners continue to prepare a ‘stop’ notice.
In Thatcham this week, a resident has warned that trouble could be coming to a Thatcham road after plans to convert a pub into housing were approved.
Also in the town, Thatcham Rugby Club broke ground for its new club house and a Thatcham school celebrated its 10th birthday.
And on the Hampshire pages, a £31,000 refurbished children’s playground was recently opened in Ecchinswell – by the mother of three whose determined efforts saw the project to fruition.
Our commemorative coverage of the First World War continues. This week we look at David Cameron’s ancestor Frank Mount, from Aldermaston, who died at the Battle of Loos.
Our award-winning augmented reality image this week is a Skoda.
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As always, there’s also a roundup of the week’s entertainment and sport, and of course this week’s £25 free fuel giveaway.