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The court heard how one of his wife, Sandra Talman’s sons had been haunted by nightmares since his mother’s death.
In other news, the main landowner for Sandleford Park says it is deeply concerned that the council has asked for only one application to be submitted for the entire site.
A public exhibition into the first phase of the development - which includes up to 400 homes, a primary school and two accesses off Monks Lane – was held on Tuesday.
Also this week, West Berkshire Council admitted that it made a mistake by handing over £900,000 of taxpayers money to a developer before affordable housing was built at the Parkway Living Complex.
The council says that it the 37 affordable units at the site, which have now been empty for two years, are likely to remain unoccupied until the autumn.
Meanwhile, a retired Liberal Democrat councillor with more than four decades of experience in local politics has died at the age of 84.
Mike James died last Thursday after a long battle with ill health according to his son Paul.
Local dignitaries offer their respects to the man described by many as an “old-school gentlemen.”
In this week’s Hungerford edition of the Newbury Weekly News, a 40-year campaign to bury high voltage cables beneath the common pays off.
In Thatcham, Sainsbury’s opened its doors last week and has named a local school as its charity partner of the year.
But local residents have already complained about parking arrangements, saying that their drives have been blocked and that customers have parked on double yellow lines while they pop into the shop.
And on the Hampshire pages, read about how Tadley group Dance Phaze achieved their dreams of performing in the West End, after a performance of a lifetime at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
Our flooding features continue this week with a focus on East Ilsley and how residents there have recovered from the floods. We’ve also got a column from Newbury MP Richard Benyon.
Fly your own First World War plane using our Newburyi3d app this week. You can pilot the Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5 making it take off and land and fly it around your surroundings.
Download our Newburyi3d app from Google Play and the App Store to pilot the plane wherever you have a copy of the paper.
Our commemorative coverage on the First World War continues, looking at the high-flying career of Newbury pilot Edward Plenty.
The young major survived the war only to be killed by the flu 10 days after the conflict ended.
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.



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