In this week's Newbury Weekly News...
The ambitious project from Newbury and District Cancer Care Trust aims to site chemo-therapy and radiotherapy facilities to include a day unit and CT scanner over the next three to five years.
In other news, West Berkshire Council has started legal proceedings against Parkway developer Standard Life Investments over the empty homes scandal.
The council says it has lost patience over the developer's delay in appointing a social housing provider to manage the 37 affordable units at the site which have been empty for two years.
Also this week, Newbury Town Council has said its plans for an 80-seater café in Victoria Park have stalled due to objections on flooding put forward by the Environment Agency.
It is now having to redesign part of the £500,000 scheme, which is likely to the changing rooms will be lost.
Meanwhile, the tributes have been pouring in for legendary Lambourn jockey AP McCoy after he announced he is to retire at the end of the season.
McCoy, a nineteen-time champion jump jockey, revealed the news just minutes after riding his 200th winner of the season at Newbury Racecourse on Saturday.
In this week’s Hungerford edition, it’s farewell to a well-known face at John O’Gaunt School in Hungerford.
Office manager Rita Colclough is retiring after nearly three decades.
We’ve got the full story and pictures on page one.
In Thatcham this week, the vision outlining the future of the town has been approved by the town council.
Thatcham Vision spent nearly two years working on the document, which also outlines what residents care about and want to see in their town; and includes issues such as housing, transport and education.
And on the Hampshire pages, it will be three strikes and you’re out for north Hampshire taxpayers, if ‘banned’ items are put in bins.
It follows new proposals to increase recycling rates from April.
This week, we’re running with our first two-page feature marking one year passing since the district was worst hit by flooding.
We have then and now photographs and interviews with affected residents telling how the extreme weather is still impacting on their lives now.
British tanks will be deployed in West Berkshire this week; the latest of our 3D augmented reality models.
The British Mark IV rumbles off the page and can be manoeuvred into position ready to turn its guns on targets in your mobile devices’ field of vision.
Download the Newburyi3d app from the App Store or Google Play to bring history to life.
Our commemorative coverage on the First World War focuses on the Alder brothers, from Kintbury, who were killed in the same action on the same day.
Francis and William were killed during the Battle of Loos in October 1915 but wasn’t until nearly a year later that the family learned of their fate.
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.