Multimillion pound retirement facility to open in Kintbury today (Thurs)

Inglewood House, Templeton Road, Kintbury is a new 94-unit retirement village for the over-55s.
The £25m complex will feature a restaurant, bar, lounge, library, swimming pool, gymnasium and fitness and treatment rooms, and many of the facilities will be available for general public membership, as well as for residents.
There will also be a 24-hour concierge service and a care service, so residents can be treated for ailments within their own homes.
Once a private estate, Inglewood House was bought by the Catholic de la Salle brothers in 1928 as a training centre for young men taking religious orders. In the 1970s, it was sold and transformed into a health hydro which, in 1981, was bought by a consortium headed by the then MP and businessman Jonathan Aitken.
In 1995, it hit the national headlines when The Guardian alleged that Mr Aitken had tried to procure women for visiting Saudi princes at the hydro – a claim he rejected – and which prompted his now infamous “bent and twisted journalism” speech, a libel writ against The Guardian and his subsequent fall from grace when he was found guilty of perjury.
Following spells of ownership by Grosvenor Spas Ltd, and Purdew Health Farm Group, the spa was closed in 2004.
It was bought by Raven Audley Court for a retirement village in 2006 and, in 2009, permission was granted to demolish the rest of Inglewood House on condition that it was rebuilt in modern materials so that its appearance was unchanged.