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DAYS before the Easter holidays are due to begin, a popular soft play centre has been forced to call in the receivers and make its staff redundant. In a statement...

The Wheelwright's Arms in Hurst is organising a charity dog walk for its locals and their pets to help less fortunate dogs. Taking part will be Sophie, a miniature Pinscher,...

IT’S a hog roast without a hog - and we’re not telling porkies. This Saturday, Siren Craft Brew in Finchampstead will hold what is thought to be Berkshire’s first fully...

THE COUNCIL has hit upon a controversial move to replace trees chopped down by the regeneration work and housebuilding across the borough: they are all to be swapped for bonsai...

‘NOTHING has been agreed or accepted” over plans to build a new 15,000-home town in Grazeley. That’s the view of Conservative group leader Cllr Julian McGhee-Sumner. On Monday, Minister of...

A MICHAEL JACKSON tribute act has been removed from the bill of a popular music festival following allegations of abuse against the real thing. Marvellous Festivals had booked a soundalike...

Volunteers from the Scarletts Lane Residents’ Association in Kiln Green, Berkshire were out in force on Saturday, March 23, to tidy the lane as part of the borough council’s Annual...

THE outgoing Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police has praised officers for their “day to day” work in preventing and fighting crime, writes James Hastings. Francis Habgood said while the...

THE trouble with planning in secret is that when the secrets come out, there is anger. And residents have every right to be angry over the plans for Grazeley, Twyford...

A view on Brexit Brexit. Love it or hate it, it’s clearly not going well. I have a theory about that. It’s because it’s not the right answer, heck, it’s...