Friday, 05 September 2025
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HENLEY Symphony Orchestra will perform two concerts at Christ Church in Reading Road, Henley, tomorrow (Saturday).The 4.30pm concert is for young children and at 6.30pm it will present A Concert for Christmas. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served.
AN opera festival that last year had to be cut back to a single weekend due to the coronavirus pandemic is returning with seven open-air productions staged over 10 days this summer. Running from August 12 to 21, the Waterperry Opera Festival will...
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A YOUNG performer from Caversham has starred in a West End musical in London. Samantha Henney, 15, took part in Wicked the Musical at ...
A WOMAN from Sonning Common who dominated the awards at this year’s Chiltern Edge Horticultural Society spring show puts her success ...
A NEW production at the Watermill looks at the extraordinary life of the 20th century chanteuse best known for singing the stirring ...
LYRICIST Sir Tim Rice has written the words of some of the best-known musical hits of the last few decades. The 80-year-old Hambleden ...
SINODUN PLAYERS’ latest production is Entertaining Angels, Richard Everett’s bittersweet comedy about vicarage life, skilfully ...
SEEING two Alan Ayckbourn plays within two weeks – Absent Friends in Henley, then Just Between Ourselves in Windsor – brought on major ...
SO what is it that makes a good play? The script? The cast? The direction? The set? The current production of Absent Friends, by the ...
JAMES Farnham’s novel, Bayeux, will take readers back to the Henley area in the Sixties. The author, who has spent most of his career ...
ORGANISERS of this year’s Henley Youth Festival say it was a joy to see children grow in confidence and self-belief. Thousands of ...
HATS off to Caroline Hopkins for an acting tour-de-force as that national treasure, Hyacinth Bucket, at Henley Amateur Operatic and ...
THIS year is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen and, judging by this touring production of Pride & Prejudice* (*sort ...
FOR anyone who found Thomas Hardy heavy-going in their schooldays, Theatre Royal Windsor’s latest production of one of Hardy's ...
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A HYDROLOGICAL survey of a village pond which started losing water at the beginning of the year will take place after deliveries of water failed to stabilise water levels. Sonning ... [more]
APPLICATIONS for Eco Soco’s annual tree give-away will open in September. Each year, the environmental group teams up with Community Action Groups Oxfordshire to give away free ... [more]
A MEETING of the Peppard WI on Wednesday, September 10, at the hall in Gallowstree Road at 2pm, will hear a talk by Hannah Bignall, on flower arranging. Details at: Stephanie.... [more]
PLANS to build nine new homes in Sonning Common have been approved. Reading-based developer Elegant Homes will build the mix of detached and semi-detached homes on 0.88ha of ... [more]
