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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

Van blaze

A CAMPERVAN parked in a layby off Skirmett Road, Hambleden, was badly damaged in a fire during Wednesday night last week.

Major disruption to London Paddington trains after person dies on tracks

All train lines between London Paddington and Reading have closed while emergency services respond to an incident, National Rail has said.

PUB PAIR QUIT AFTER DEBTS REACH £1.5M

TWO entrepreneurs were forced to give up two pubs after accruing debts of more than £1.5 million. Alex Sergeant and David Holliday ran the Bottle and Glass Inn in Binfield Heath and Hart Street Tavern in Henley as separate companies. They were wound...

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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

Major disruption to London Paddington trains after person dies on tracks

PUB PAIR QUIT AFTER DEBTS REACH £1.5M

Cheers! Regulars celebrate as pub named community asset

Unexpected death in Bell Street

Lottery winner bags dream home

Restaurant retains award for ninth year running

ANGER OVER BOTCHED POLICE INVESTIGATION

‘It’s humiliating for statues of Olympians to be in car park’

Training pool back open after £40,000 upgrade

Praise for corner shop

Plans to redevelop builder’s merchants will ‘dominate view’

Police investigate emails sent to John Howell in connection with Manchester synagogue attack

National Trust launches appeal to repair ‘well-loved route’ at Cock Marsh

Mother criticises council for not providing son schooling

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