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A classic fishy story
18/05/15
...world premiere production of a classic Hans Christian Andersen tale comes to the Oxford Playhouse from Tuesday to Saturday. MERMAID is the story of how the title character rises to the surface on her 16th birthday, leaving her childhood behind forever when...
Red Devils help make steam rally a success
24/05/13
...gave visitors unusual hairdos, including plaiting hair to form a barbecue skewer and decorating it with wine bottles and MERMAID dolls. Fred Nickson, of Henley-based Chiltern Antiques, sold five vintage post boxes. Charities hosted different activities...
Video: Mermaid with a message
17/06/13
A MERMAID statue gifted to Henley has finally been unveiled.
Video: Mermaid statue unveiled
16/06/13
Pot luck
IT’S said to be good luck if a bird poops on you, so how fortunate that it should happen to Henley’s bronze MERMAID statue within minutes of her unveiling lastv week. Councillor Sam Evans, who spent almost 18 months persuading her colleagues to approve the...
10 Years Ago
12/06/23
...the shops, is expected to last six weeks. Sandy Pascall, who works at Sno and Sun Gear, said trade had already slumped. A MERMAID statue gifted to Henley has finally been unveiled. The 6ft bronze sculpture, which is called Ama of the Thames, is one of 20...
Stripping off at Chelsea was fun but music school funding is serious
05/06/23
...completed this challenge since 1926 and 770 were women. The average age of a Channel swimmer is 35. IT is amazing where MERMAIDing takes us, this time stripping off at Chelsea Flower Show and standing ankle-high in a beautiful manmade stream cascading...
Sweary swimmer
28/08/23
HENLEY MERMAID Laura Reineke almost got in over her head at one point on her Channel swim. The open water swimmer took on the whopping 21 mile challenge from Dover to France on Wednesday, as we report elsewhere. Having a feed at 10:45am, she appeared...
The Little Mermaid revisited
29/05/23
MERMAIDS are having a bit of a moment right now. This week Netflix released its new docu-series MerPeople about the billion dollar industry built up around performers who swim in fishtails for a living. Now here comes Disney’s live action adaptation of its...
£10bn promise on sewage not enough, say campaigners
...this announcement by Water UK does nothing to address.” Laura Reineke, a member of the open water swimming group the Henley MERMAIDs, said: “Firstly, this is not enough and will only cut sewage dumps by half. None of the investment money should be provided...
Gulp... only 36 weeks until I attempt to swim the Channel (solo)
19/12/22
SOME of you will know me as a Henley MERMAID or through Henley Music School. You might even recognise me from these pages. Most days you’ll find me in the pool or the river or driving around in my Volkswagen campervan, the ultimate accessory for an outdoor...
Living Advent Calendar Day 12: Belly dance the night away
13/12/22
...of this year’s Living Advent and entertained all present in the courtyard. The evening raised money for the Henley MERMAIDs, a group of five women undertaking open water swimming challenges for charity. This year their chosen cause is the Henley...
Climate games
22/04/24
...open water swimming group from Henley will take part in a new multi-sports event in Windsor on Sunday, June 16. The Henley MERMAIDs will join the Climategames, which will fund ecological projects, including removing plastic from the sea. The five women...
River clean after floods
15/01/24
...out a river clean-up in Henley tomorrow (Saturday). This has been jointly organised by the Warriors on Waste and the Henley MERMAIDs, who campaign for cleaner rivers and waterways. To take part, meet at the slipway at the end of Friday Street at 11am....
Government may bail out water company
29/06/23
...Water continues to maintain a strong liquidity position, including £4.4 billion of cash and committed funding.” The Henley MERMAIDs, an open water swimming group, which campaigns against sewage pollution and for cleaner rivers criticised Ms Bentley’s...
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