Saturday, 06 September 2025
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THE Henley Christmas Festival will take place tonight (Friday).
The town council, which organises the annual event, is providing a host of family attractions.
Many of the town centre shops and businesses will be open late and have special offers for the night.
The festival will run from 5pm to 9pm and Market Place, Duke Street, Bell Street and Hart Street will be closed to traffic from 3pm to 11pm.
A MAN has apologised after letting off fireworks on Christmas Day and upsetting neighbours whose dogs were left terrified. Ben Warner ...
A MAN has apologised after letting off fireworks on Christmas Day and upsetting neighbours whose dogs were left terrified. Ben Warner ...
A HAND-MADE postbox topper in Goring was stolen. The knitted decoration was one of three made by members of Cleeve-by-Goring Women’s ...
“DO dogs enjoy walking in the dark?” I asked a hatted and tightly-scarved woman, standing and surrounded by a kennel’s worth of dogs, ...
THE Goring and Streatley torchlight procession returned on Christmas Eve after five years. Residents and their families from the two ...
HOMELESS refugees were given a Christmas party in Henley. Thirty-five men and women enjoyed home-cooked food, party games and music ...
READER Iain Phillips, from Watlington, won the £125 gin hamper provided by the Henley Distillery in the Henley Standard competition ...
Staff at the Perch and Pike in South Stoke made Christmas particularly special for the children of the village school (Oxfordshire’s ...
A WOMAN from Henley won a £90 Tesco Christmas food hamper in a Henley Standard competition published on December 15. Christine Brown, ...
THE spirit of Christmas filled St Bartholomew’s Church in Nettlebed for its Nativity and carol service. More than 150 people attended ...
HOLY Trinity Church in Henley and Trinity at Four held Follow the Star over two days, writes Elizabeth Chambers. A total of 435 ...
A CHRISTMAS party was held at the Fawley Hill Estate on Sunday, writes Alex Carter. Children and adults, who were dressed in Christmas ...
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