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10 years ago
THE Mayor of Henley has been the target of abuse on the internet after being photographed parked in a loading bay. Lorraine Hillier was reduced to tears by the media response to some of the comments made by Facebook users when Henley resident Rob ...
03 Nov 2025 at 09:30
100 years ago
A YOUTH named Archibald Faulkes, of Grange Road, Henley, met with an unfortunate accident on Sunday evening. With two companions, he was cycling to Reading and when on the top of Span Hill he went on in front. As he was descending the hill there ...
27 Oct 2025 at 09:30
50 years ago
STONOR PARK, which has been in the ownership of the same family since before the Norman conquest, is to be sold because taxation and inflation have taken their toll. Three weeks ago the owners, Lord and Lady Camoys, put the property in the ...
25 years ago
FIREWORKS with the power of military explosives — capable of killing people and destroying buildings — have been stolen from a farm in Shiplake. The fireworks, worth £40,000, were stolen sometime between Friday and Saturday. Jack Burbage, ...
HENLEY’S two GP surgeries are favourite to take over the empty floor at the new Townlands Hospital. The Bell and Hart surgeries have begun negotiations with health chiefs, who say the move would be the “right choice” for patients. ...
HENLEY’S junior youth club, which has about 100 members, will be forced to shut down if more adult supervisors are not found soon. Five weeks ago Mrs Caroline Birney, who runs the club, sent out 100 letters to parents asking them ...
13 Oct 2025 at 09:30
A SPOON sculpture marking Uri Geller’s time in Sonning may have to be removed because it doesn’t have planning permission. The bright red artwork bearing his name was unveiled on the Thames towpath on Monday by the illusionist, ...
A SHOP owner and his wife battled with masked raiders in the early hours this week by “bombing” them with window boxes. The raiders used a hammer to smash the window of the Deep Clothing Company in New Street, Henley, and, ...
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THE pretty village of Turville has become “Heathcote” for this week and next. Thames Television is recording a complete six-part series there entitled The Molly Wopsies which will be screened as weekly episodes in March ...
06 Oct 2025 at 09:30
IT will be a golden day for Henley — with a chance for everyone to give our Olympic rowing heroes the welcome home that they deserve. The Standard’s suggestion for a row past has been taken up by the town council in ...
THERE will be no beds at Townlands Hospital when it opens in December. Despite calls to install 18 in the new building, as originally promised, health chiefs have instead agreed to “buy” eight beds from the ...
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THERE were large attendances at the Congregational Church on Sunday last, the special occasion being the Harvest Festival. A wealth of gifts enabled the ladies to decorate the church interior with their ...
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WE strongly advise those of our readers who are interested in the future welfare of their country to attend the public meeting to be held in the Town Hall, Henley, on Monday evening next, at 7.45pm. ...
29 Sept 2025 at 09:30
THE end of Henley’s obelisk saga may now be mercifully in sight. A town council committee had come up with a recommendation for a final resting place for the monument. Meeting on Tuesday, the plans,...
A FIRE that ripped through a Henley house is being treated as an accident. Police are investigating the cause of the blaze, which happened at the 19th century property at Fairmile Cemetery on ...
EXPANSION plans for the Tesco store in Henley will finally go before the general public on October 6 and 7. The designs, which include a new sports pavilion, have been kept under wraps and ...
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