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...

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....

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...

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...

Brook talk

A PRESENTATION on the Hamble Brook will be held in Hambleden village hall on Monday, March 25 from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. This will look at habitation reinvigoration and citizen science monitoring around the brook, a winterbourne chalk stream which...

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Pub staff in miracle escape as car hits wall

Pub staff in miracle escape as car hits wall

THE landlord of a pub in Henley said it was “miraculous” that his staff escaped without serious injuries after a car crashed into the kitchen wall in the middle of dinner service. At around 6.45pm on Sunday, a car left Remenham Lane and ploughed...

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