Tag Archives: Newbury

A district councillor has asked “will it take a death before the authorities take action?” after an A34 closure caused several hours of traffic chaos in a West Berkshire village. On Friday evening (February 7) a coach fire and two car crashes closed the A34 both ways between Chieveley and …

A cleaning company based in Newbury has donated 50 USB memory sticks to the town’s talking newspaper. Kennet Cassette is a free voluntary service which has provided blind and visually impaired people with audio recordings of extracts from the Newbury Weekly News for nearly 50 years. Managing Director Andre Gottemaker …

The Newbury Weekly News goes to print on a Wednesday afternoon. But as one issue wraps, the work of volunteers at Kennet Cassette – Newbury’s talking newspaper for the blind and partially sighted – is just getting started. Volunteers recording the 2,500th edition of the Kennet Cassette The charity, founded …

There’s just three weeks to go until the General Election, which falls in the summer holiday period. But don’t worry if you will be away from home on July 4, you can still vote, writes Grace Clift. If you’re away from home on polling day this year, or just can’t …

I’ve had problems with my post for 15 years I read with interest the letters saying that a few people are having problems with postal deliveries recently. I smile when the national press says the service is dropping to less deliveries that the six a week at present. People say …

Put up a plaque to explain sculpture The sculptor Michael Fairfax was employed at great expense by the developers of Newbury’s Market Street to erect the Two Rivers bronze sculpture on the side of the car park of the new development. The Michael Fairfax Two Rivers bronze sculpture This represents …

Traffic disruption at showground events I am writing to express my profound dissatisfaction with the severe lack of organisation and foresight demonstrated during the events held at Newbury Showground on April 13, 2024. The simultaneous scheduling of the All About Dogs and Newbury Garden Show events resulted in extreme traffic …

The Phantom Faeces Flinger of Sandleford One of the people who walks their dog from Warren Road to Sandleford goes to the trouble of picking up their dog’s poo in a bag, but then flings it into the bushes on their way home, leaving the hedge and fence festooned with …

Royal Mail is proposing to relocate a post box in Hatt Close, Peasemore, to a new location further along the road. The reason given for the move is because the slipway needs widening to assist the emergency services in the area. Site of the current post box in Peasemore The …

Royal Mail has said the backlog at Thatcham Sorting Office has been cleared. Earlier this year a Thatcham councillor said the least Royal Mail should do is apologise after the town became what he called a ‘letter free zone’. Missed hospital appointments and late wedding invitations were the consequences of …