In this week's Newbury Weekly News.........

IN this week’s Newbury Weekly News, West Berkshire Council has released its preferred list of sites for housing across the district; and Newbury has been asked to bear the brunt of the development.

In other news, Bayer could have stayed Bayer is leaving Newbury because of unnecessary delays to the redevelopment the London Road Industrial Estate, it has been claimed this week.

Also this week, dismembered limbs and dead babies in jars – has one Newbury fancy dress shop taken Halloween too far this year?

Meanwhile, Headley villagers have said police should have set a better example after a police car was photographed stranded in the notoriously dangerous Headley Ford.

In this week’s Hungerford edition of the Newbury Weekly News, there are mixed reactions to the news that the town has been earmarked for 100 new homes.

Plus, volunteers raise thousands for breast cancer charity at a day-long tattoathon.

In Thatcham this week, campaigners have spoken of their disappointment after the Lower Way field was included as a preferred site for new housing.

And on the Hampshire pages, determined volunteers at a Headley community shop say it’s ‘Business as usual’ despite two burglaries in four days last week.

With it being Halloween, our award-winning augmented reality images have been transformed into a ghoulish game. The Zombie Brain game allows you to take control of the undead and move them across the page to pick up brains within the time limit.

Download our Newburyi3d app from the Apple Store or Google Play. The app has been updated and now includes games.

As always, there’s also a roundup of the week’s entertainment and sport, and of course this week’s £25 free fuel giveaway.

And free with today’s paper is the 2015 First Class supplement.

Over the last few weeks, the Newbury Weekly News photographers have been busy visiting 71 schools across West Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire to take pictures of this year’s school starters.

There are more than 1,000 children featured in the 24-page supplement.