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Entries open for Henley Festival visual arts prize

ENTRIES are open for this year’s Henley Festival Emerging Artist Prize for visual art. The award is part of RISE, the festival’s charitable programme to help young people find a career in the performance industry, both on stage and behind the scenes.

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Rick Astley takes on swing hits on night three of Henley Festival

EIGHTIES pop legend Rick Astley took to the floating stage on Saturday night to headline the third day of the Henley Festival. At just age 21 Astley topped the charts in twenty-five different countries with his 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up”,...

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Weather is best warm-up act for festival stars

DIANA Ross had the crowd on its feet on the opening night of the Henley Festival. The American singer was accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for what was the final UK stop of her European tour. Dressed all in black, the musicians were...

DJ is back with bangers for party on riverside

Festival tickets sell quickly

‘Queen of Motown’ to headline festival

Diana Ross to open Henley Festival

’Empress’ deserves accolades

Sam lifts mood after defeat

Music

Power and precision from ‘Doll’

Nicole Scherzinger, Wednesday, July 10 HAVING grown up in the Noughties and 2010s, when I heard Nicole Scherzinger was headlining the Henley Festival, I was hoping for only one thing... that she would play some of her girlband era hits. However, I...

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Brilliant pair but so different

Nigel Kennedy and Sam Ryder, Sunday, July 14WHERE better to enjoy the late evening sunshine than by the sparkling waters of the River Thames in Henley? Add to that the music of one of the upcoming RISE musicians, Angus Trott, of The Wave Machine, and...

Entries open for Henley Festival visual arts prize

Rick Astley takes on swing hits on night three of Henley Festival

Weather is best warm-up act for festival stars

DJ is back with bangers for party on riverside

Festival tickets sell quickly

‘Queen of Motown’ to headline festival

Diana Ross to open Henley Festival

’Empress’ deserves accolades

Sam lifts mood after defeat

Power and precision from ‘Doll’

Brilliant pair but so different

Victim in Henley murder case identified

Murder investigation after the death of a woman in Henley

Man appears in court charged with murder of woman in Henley

Man charged with murder following woman's death

Henley mourns loss of Jennifer Symonds

Henley boutique owner bringing own style to High Street

Rule-breaking drivers on Fair Mile see over a dozen fines handed out

Henley hotel looks to shed ‘dull’ image with colourful £4.5m facelift

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

Henley butcher stranded in Dubai amid air strikes

Badgemore Pre-School to close in three weeks

New priest with ‘personality’ licensed for village church

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

Garage helps man with kidney failure get back on his bike