Fifty years ago...

HENLEY’S MP Mr John Hay defended the Government’s methods of dealing with inflation in a long speech to local Conservatives on Friday. Politics, he said, was the art of the possible, not the impossible, and desperate situations needed desperate remedies. In his speech at the annual meeting of the Henley branch, he hit out at union militants on the shop floor. The TUC, he said, was in no position to make bargains because it could not rely on individual unions to stick to them.  

Strong winds created havoc on Monday and several trees were blown down. One fell across the A4155, Henley to Reading road, near the Apex garage, and police had to divert traffic through Harpsden for a short while. Trees also came down on roads at Cockpole Green and Kidmore End and one was blown against power cables near Shiplake poultry farm.

There’s nothing like arriving in style and from now on the sports teams at Gillotts School will be able to do just that when they play away matches. On Friday, the school was presented with a new 17-seater minibus costing £1,547, the result of two years of hard work by the parents’ association.