10 years ago

A MAN who fought cancer in his twenties is finally looking forward to the future after setting up a new business. Woodworker Tom Ford, 30, of Duke Street, Henley, has needed surgery twice in the last seven years as well as chemotherapy and had struggled to hold down a job. Now he and a friend have launched Barrett and Ford, which sells quality, handmade farmhouse tables and coat racks from a workshop near Watlington.

Regatta Radio has been saved. The pop-up station has raised the £25,000 needed to keep it on the air during this year’s Henley Royal Regatta. The directors secured a new major sponsor before Monday, which was the deadline they had set themselves to reach their target. The appeal was launched after Invesco Perpetual withdrew its funding.

A meeting to discuss the future of two children’s centres was cancelled at the last minute in a row over who should be there. Stefan Gawrysiak, Henley’s outgoing Mayor, was due to chair the meeting about the Rainbow centres in Henley and Sonning Common at the town hall. But Action for Children, who runs the centres, refused to attend as a representative from Nomad, which used to run them, would be there.