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HANDS OFF OUR VAN, MR MAYOR

A VILLAGE shopkeeper was left stunned when a bailiff tried to seize her van. Sarah Harper, 51, general manager of Hambleden Village Stores and Post Office, fell victim to criminals who cloned the licence plates of the shop’s Volkswagen Caddy. She was...

Cinema

Film night

HAMBLEDEN Cinema’s winter season opens next Saturday with a screening of Sully, Miracle on the Hudson (12) from 8pm. The film tells the true story of pilot Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who makes an emergency landing. Tickets cost £8 from tinyurl....

Events

Garage and butchers used for film sequel

FILMING took place in Hambleden on Monday for the sequel to a romantic drama fantasy film on Monday, writes Alex Carter. Warner Bros Studios Leavesden set up, filmed and dismantled the Practical Magic 2 set in the village on the same day. The church...

Open gardens

Film show

Former paratrooper sets up car racing team to support injured soldiers

Family memorial that became music festival

Road filming

Babbling brook attracts wildlife after restoration

Home

Church organist to retire after playing at 4,000 ceremonies

A CHURCH organist from Hambleden is to retire after 67 years. Christine Wells, 87, of Pheasants Hill, near Hambleden, has played the organ at St Mary the Virgin since 1957. She applied for the job after answering a newspaper advertisement. Mrs Wells...

Hambleden

HANDS OFF OUR VAN, MR MAYOR

Film night

Garage and butchers used for film sequel

Open gardens

Film show

Former paratrooper sets up car racing team to support injured soldiers

Family memorial that became music festival

Road filming

Babbling brook attracts wildlife after restoration

Church organist to retire after playing at 4,000 ceremonies

Van blaze

Victim in Henley murder case identified

Murder investigation after the death of a woman in Henley

Man charged with murder following woman's death

Man appears in court charged with murder of woman in Henley

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

Henley boutique owner bringing own style to High Street

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

Garage helps man with kidney failure get back on his bike

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

South Oxfordshire residents set for near five per cent council tax hike

More flats at retirement village would ‘spoil’ view for neighbouring homes

Henley Town Council 'pleading for help' with Christmas festival amid £19k cost