Aston

Exit with dignity

PETER WRIGHT, the grandest living figure in British ballet, has recalled a visit to Henley with Kenneth MacMillan when they were both ...

A COUPLE are to leave the pub they have run for 30 years. Tony Read and Pat Thatcher, who took over the Flower Pot in Aston in 1992, ...

IN Aston there is a slipway on to the River Thames known as Aston Ferry, which dates as far back as 1785 when there was a ferry across ...

ANTONIA SOUTHWELL and Matthew Thomas were married at St Nicholas Church in Remenham on Friday, October 1. The bride is the daughter of ...

A FILM director and producer has become a full voting member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Jo Southwell is now ...

Graham Hards, from Tokers Green, says: “We awoke on Friday morning to a red glow in the house. On opening the front door, we were ...

THE Late Spring bereavement support group in Sonning Common will meet at the Fish volunteer centre in Kennylands Road on Tuesday, ...

THE son of a developer wants to demolish outbuildings and a stable block and replace them with purpose-built stables and a storage ...

ASTON Ferry is popular with dog walkers and picnickers and is also a slipway used by the Environment Agency. My picture shows what ...

OF around 250 species of primate, it is only we humans that go around exclusively on two legs. Trust us to be awkward. Unfortunately, ...

THE Flower Pot in Aston has been named the best pub on an ale trail. It won the outstanding ale trail pub at the Reading and ...

A PUBLICAN is seeking compensation after his business was cut off for two months because of misplaced road signs. Tony Read, who runs ...

THE award-winning Henley painter Camilla Dowse is opening her Singers Lane studio to the public next weekend. The “Winter Open Studio” ...

DIRECTOR and writer Jo Southwell has been longlisted for an independent film award. Ruth, which is based on the biblical text of the ...

THE tenants at the Flower Pot pub in Aston have won an award from the Campaign for Real Ale for services to the industry. Landlord ...

HUNDREDS of crayfish have been found dead in the River Thames near Henley. A large pile of the creatures were spotted last Friday in ...

“PILATES focuses on quality movement to stretch and strengthen the whole body,” says Pilates ABC Henley owner Alyth Yealland. “Clients ...

A COUPLE have marked 25 years of running the same pub. Pat Thatcher and her partner Tony Read were regulars at the Flower Pot in Aston ...

A PILOT was killed when his light aircraft crashed in Aston Rowant Nature Reserve, near Watlington. The plane had taken off from ...

NOW that you’ve made your New Year’s resolution to get in shape and be healthy, it’s time to get it started. Part of being healthy and ...