The Christmas offering by the Mill at Sonning is the popular musical Guys and Dolls. The show itself was spectacular.

Why do we celebrate Advent? Is it about eating more chocolate every day in December? Giving a small gift every day up to Christmas? I remember my mum used to...

This is a personal story. Last year, my younger brother suffered a stroke and subsequently died in Lister Hospital Stevenage. The staff were fantastic.One thing he had been clear about...

This week, a heartening story of a man who fulfilled his early potential, going on to become one of the most commercially successful painters of his generation who lived a...

The Fir Tree Until December 30 Norden Farm 01628 788997 norden.farm The Moomin family is hibernating in the drawing room as is their custom. They aren’t planning on surfacing until...

Hurst Show and Country Fayre has given its highest ever total, over £20,000, to charities and other good causes this year. The event’s chair, Sue Payne, said: “Huge thanks goes...

A NURSE who works at Broadmoor has been presented with a special prize at a national award ceremony. On Friday, November 23, Adam Cramp picked up the title Apprentice of...

Hurst village is switching on its Christmas tree lights as an early celebration of the festival day of its patron saint, St Nicholas, writes Sue Corcoran. The event is at School...

I want you inspired. I want you motivated. I want you interested and then I want you COMMITTED. These words should be pretty ingrained in your thought pattern and conscious...

IF YOU go down to the woods tomorrow, you're in for a big surprise. No, not bears on a picnic, but Santas on the run. The annual Thames Hospice Santa...