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Festival’s billed as ‘the best wellbeing event of the Great British summer’

WANNA have the best weekend ever and leave feeling better than when you arrived? The best wellbeing weekend of the Great British summer, the Om & Bass Festival is offering top notch fun for all the family — including the Bassmentality Reggae Sound...

Summer

Slow down and savour what’s good

JUST outside the village of Theale, on the beautiful Englefield Estate, you’ll find Cobbs — a farm shop that’s as much about experience as it is about great food. Set in restored cattle barns, Cobbs blends rustic charm with a modern, welcoming feel....

Spring

Number of basket buyers still going up

A TOTAL of 240 hanging baskets to brighten up Henley this summer has been bought so far. Residents and businesses in Henley can take part in the scheme, which is supported by the Henley Standard’s Buy a Basket campaign. The baskets, which are supplied...

Gallery’s exhibition celebrates sunshine, romance and nostalgia of summer time

Obstacle course and festival is giving it some welly for the sixth year

Silversmiths and jewellers are showing their work

Lots of Lego fun this summer

41st Thames Traditional Boat Festival is not to be missed!

Craftsman who made a crown for Prince Charles has work on sale

Summer

Craftsman who made a crown for Prince Charles has work on sale

FIFTY years ago, on July 1, 1969, the Prince of Wales’s investiture at Carnarvon Castle, brought to the public’s attention a highly talented and exceptional craftsman, little known to the general public at the time. Although not a familiar name to...

Art and Galleries

Textile designer is joining painters at Old Fire Station Gallery show

AN exciting “Art and Design Exhibition” by five contemporary artists will be held at Henley’s Old Fire Station Gallery later this month. The show, which runs at the gallery in Upper Market Place behind the town hall from Thursday, July 25, to Tuesday,...

Festival’s billed as ‘the best wellbeing event of the Great British summer’

Slow down and savour what’s good

Number of basket buyers still going up

Gallery’s exhibition celebrates sunshine, romance and nostalgia of summer time

Obstacle course and festival is giving it some welly for the sixth year

Silversmiths and jewellers are showing their work

Lots of Lego fun this summer

41st Thames Traditional Boat Festival is not to be missed!

Craftsman who made a crown for Prince Charles has work on sale

Craftsman who made a crown for Prince Charles has work on sale

Textile designer is joining painters at Old Fire Station Gallery show

Murder investigation after the death of a woman in Henley

Man, 54, charged with multiple rapes over attacks on women in Henley and West Berkshire

Man charged with murder following woman's death

Tributes to Henley pub landlord who ‘made customers feel valued’

Former rowing coach's mental health suffered after wrongful ban

Henley butcher stranded in Dubai amid air strikes

Jail for Waitrose Twyford shoplifter who returned to thieving 'within hours' of court hearing

Biker hits crater and cracks rib on road in Henley

Garage helps man with kidney failure get back on his bike

Breast screening van moved due to parking issues at Townlands Memorial Hospital

Father and daughter duo close popular Watlington bakery

Newly refurbished tearoom at a National Trust site in Henley re-opened

Henley Mayor's message of peace for revellers at club night

Henley to bid for UK Town of Culture title