Tuesday, 18 May 2021
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PHIL GIBBS is the founder and a director of 1AffordableCall, a telecoms and IT consultancy. He was born and raised in Ruislip and went to St Paul’s School in Hammersmith and then Southampton University, achieving a PhD in biochemistry. He and his...
MICHAEL OSBORN is the founder of Touchstone2C, a provider of quality stereo home audio equipment, and Air Audio Distribution, the UK distributor of Hana audio products. Born in Walthamstow and raised in Bedford, he was dyslexic as a child and failed...
BEFORE breakfast we take our customary stroll around our wooded garden led by our cat Cilla. She is definitely the boss. A bumblebee ...
DEMENTIA is a difficult subject. It’s one that can get brushed to one side as with many things that scare or worry us. But lacking in ...
IT is Easter Sunday and as we take our usual early morning stroll around the garden, I ask Rosemary where she’d like to go for a walk ...
WE wake up this morning to find our cat Cilla curled up at our feet. After biting my wife’s finger, she cries out for breakfast. She’s ...
IF I had to make a list of the most misspelled medical words, eczema would feature prominently alongside such gems as prostate (not ...
ISOBEL HARRIS is the owner of Isobel Harris Business Support, which she runs from her home in Henley. Born in Oxford, she was only ...
A COUPLE of weeks ago, we both noticed the absence of common frogs in our garden pond. This is unusual. Rosemary tells me that they ...
DURING the Twenties a condition later dubbed “sweet clover disease” began to afflict the cattle of the North American prairies. The ...
IT is a windy day and I think it unwise to take a woodland walk for fear of falling branches and trees. Although the ground is drying ...
KEITH JEFFERIES is a chartered management accountant and owner of Jefferies Accountancy Services at Chiltern House in Station Road, ...
SHEILA WALKER, from Sonning Common, has been in touch with me. We met last year when she was walking her deaf dog at Kingwood Common. ...
ONE of my go to lines when advising patients on how to lower their blood pressure is to watch their salt intake. The advice that you ...
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Outdoor spaces booked for return of festival next summer
TWO green spaces in Goring have been booked for use by the village’s Gap Festival next summer. The parish council has allowed a marquee to be erected on the southern half of ... [more]
Lib-Dem leader visits to drum up support
THE leader of the Liberal Democrats spent an hour canvassing for the local elections in Goring. Sir Ed Davey visited the village on Monday last week as part of a national tour to ... [more]
THE houses in Garrick Mews, Wargrave, are built on the site of a theatre built in 1788. This was an extravagant project by Richard Barrymore, 7th Earl of Barrymore, which employed ... [more]
TWO events will take place in Watlington as part of the Chilterns Walking Festival. Alex DeWitt, who runs bushcraft courses, will hold activities including primitive and modern ... [more]
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