Friday, 05 September 2025
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Creator of Henley-set drama is destined for greater things
WHEN Henley-raised 29-year old writer-director Kirsty Robinson introduced her feature-length offering at the film portion of this ...
Seven into 2016 is sum achievement
ABOUT 20 years back, synthpop legends Depeche Mode released a single called It’s No Good. The response from one music press reviewer ...
Keeping up with the Jones never gets old
BRITAIN’S favourite unlucky-in-love singleton returns to our screens 15 years after first capturing our hearts in this week’s Bridget ...
Deadly plot to kill Hitler’s successor
A POWERFUL wartime thriller based on real events, Anthropoid tells the story of a group of Czech resistance fighters who plot to ...
"One more time with feeling"
Henley’s Regal Picture House has been one of the select few cinemas across the UK who have been chosen to screen the film One More ...
Co-stars reunite for a twilight romance
BEST known for his late-Seventies hits Annie Hall and Manhattan, Woody Allen invites us to join him a step away from his familiar ...
Classic film screenings
PEPPARD Revels will hold two film nights later this year. The first on October 21 will feature a screening of A Man for All Seasons, ...
‘Bad mothers’ takes on a new meaning
THE thought of forgetting about all of our adult responsibilities and revisiting our younger, more carefree days appeals to all of us ...
Ricky’s still as Brent as a nine-bob note
FOLLOWING an absence of 12 years from our screens, I’d almost forgotten that David Brent is a complex character with his heart firmly ...
Fat Sam’s Speakeasy lives again as Bugsy prepares to mark 40th
READING’S historic Olympia Ballroom will be transformed into Fat Sam’s Speakeasy for one night only next month as Reading Year of ...
Another day at The Office for Gervais?
TO say I’m excited about the prospect of Ricky Gervais’s best-known character returning to our screens after an absence of 12 years is ...
Boy and dragon are the beast of friends
HOT on the heels of last month’s “reimagining” of Roald Dahl’s The BFG, Walt Disney’s Pete’s Dragon gets the same treatment this week. ...
More News:
Survey ordered to find cause of pond’s falling water levels
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]
dorian centre approved 2208
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]
