Competitions

Stinger ‘race’

A RUN in aid of Nettlebed Community School will be held next Sunday at 10am. The Nettlebed Stinger 10km race starts and ends at the ...

A COMMUNITY walk will be held in Benson on Wednesday. The group of about 30 people meets every Wednesday at the parish hall in ...

A GOLF day in aid of a Charvil charity will be held on Thursday, May 15. The event will be held at Mill Ride Golf Club in Ascot and is ...

A GROUP of older members of Henley Golf Club have raised £5,811 for Parkinson’s UK. They all belong to the Red and White Wine Elderly ...

A TOTAL of 689 runners took part in this year’s Goring 10km, which was the highest number for two years. Warm weather on Sunday ...

PERFECT weather welcomed more than 170 pupils to this year’s Henley Youth Festival Fun Run. Children from primary schools competed ...

A NOVELIST will give a talk for Friends of Sonning Common Library on Tuesday. Jasper Fforde, author of The Eyre Affair and other ...

A TEENAGER who has become a world kickboxing champion wants to compete for Team GB at the Olympics. Fionn Maher, 14, from Binfield ...

TEN dogs from the Henley area will be appearing at this year’s Crufts. Melanie Roberson, of the Gainsborough Estate, will be showing ...

NOMINATIONS for the inaugural Community Heroes Awards in Charvil have opened. Residents are invited to choose someone they know who ...

A STUDENT from Berrick Salome will run the London Marathon dressed in a rhino suit. Jaz Stanmore, 21, decided to raise money for ...

Editor, — I walk regularly in Lambridge Wood in Henley and am horrified by the huge gate and fence that have sprung up to block a ...

THE Henley Youth Festival and the Henley Standard have teamed up once again to invite all young writers and aspiring journalists who ...

A DRIVER has told of his anger after a single pothole left nine cars stranded in one night. The crater in the B481 at Park Corner ...

A PUB in Watlington has reopened as a Chinese restaurant. Beetoshoke De, 38, and his wife Malgorzata Jarzebak-De, 31, better known as ...

A BOY from Emmer Green was crowned the winner of Junior Bake Off. Austin Edwards was awarded Britain’s best young baker on the Channel ...

MORE than 100 appointments a month are not going ahead at the Chiltern Surgery in Watlington where patients have not turned up. The ...

A MAN exposed himself to a female dog walker at Swyncombe woods in Ewelme. The man was said to be standing naked next to a Volvo V50 ...

MORE than 100 tennis balls have been sold in Benson to raise money for Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary. David Wilson Homes Southern ...

A GOVERNMENT agency has recommended that a relief road around Watlington should be deferred. Active Travel England said that current ...