Living Advent Calendar axed for second year due to covid
THE Henley Living Advent Calendar has been cancelled for a second year running due to the coronavirus pandemic. Organisers made the ...
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
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SEVENTY-FIVE Christmas trees were recycled by Sonning Common Parish Council. The chippings will be used on the land behind Kidmore ...
CHRISTMAS trees can be disposed off via Sonning Common Parish Council until 1pm today (Friday). Residents should take their trees, ...
Christmas tree shredding raises £1,000
A CHRISTMAS tree shredding service raised £1,000 for Henley in Bloom. Scores of residents took their trees to Mill Meadows on Saturday ...
HENLEY’S Santa sleigh run raised more than £5,400 for charity. Former mayor Pam Phillips and members of Henley Lions Club staged the ...
No pantomime so props are used in villages’ fun trail
MORE than 60 gardens in Shiplake and Binfield Heath were decorated with a theme of pantomime to form a Christmas trail. The initiative ...
A TOTAL of £275 has been raised for the Fish volunteer centre in Sonning Common. This followed the cancelltion of the village’s ...
THE son of a Christmas charity fundraiser from Sonning Common raised £870 in his memory. John Lambourne used to decorate his home in ...
CHRISTMAS services held at the churches in Sonning Common and Kidmore End went well, says Rev Sheila Walker. Christ the King ...
JULIE HUNTINGTON, the new chairman of the Kenton Theatre trustees, has been overseeing the revival of the Kenton for Keeps appeal to ...
Customers queue round the corner at butcher’s shop
A LONG queue of customers formed outside Henley butcher’s Gabriel Machin on Wednesday last week. More than 50 people at a time were ...
THE Christmas trail in Shiplake and Dunsden will end tomorrow (Saturday). More than 60 householders have decorated their gardens with ...
A QUEUE of 60 shoppers formed outside the Waitrose store in Bell Street, Henley, at 7am on Tuesday. The supermarket has extended its ...
No living advent calendar, so disappointed dancers hold their own
A DANCE academy staged its own virtual living advent calendar after Henley’s popular annual event was cancelled because of the ...
A WOMAN from Wargrave won a hamper full of Christmas goodies which was raffled by a Henley jewellers. Lawsons Goldsmiths in Duke ...
AFTER some debate and much consultation with the diocese and much reading of the new tier 4 rules, Fawley village’s unique carol ...
School carol concerts without audience
PUPILS from Rupert House School in Henley attended carol services at St Mary’s Church in their year group bubbles. Years 3 to 6 from ...
Church stages interactive walk-through nativity event
AN interactive walk-through nativity was held at Holy Trinity Church in Henley last week. The event was called Follow the Star and ...
THE winner of Henley’s Christmas shop window display competition has donated the £100 prize to the charity that was runner-up. Timber ...
Short story: Christmas in Addis
Christmas in Addis is a festive short story by Rev Canon Kevin Davies, of Langtree Team Ministry. FELICITY was well into her sixties ...
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