Thursday, 23 May 2019
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MEMBERS of staff and patients of the Sanatorium have presented Dr and Mrs Lillingston with an entrée dish as a memento of their stay at Peppard. Harry Cole, who is the senior member of staff, said that some people thought sanatorium life meant long...
HENLEY’S Congregational Church was on the air on Sunday when the BBC broadcast the morning worship in its Radio 4 service. Because of ...
A TRAIN was delayed and police tracker dogs were called in after three boys were seen on the railway line at Lower Shiplake on Sunday. ...
A WAVE of grey and green wheelie bins that has swept into Henley is infuriating residents. Bins have been dumped and stacked ...
MANY swifts (Apus apus) have reappeared in our skies. It is only the beginning of May but these supremely agile birds always seem to ...
WAY back in the Seventies, when I was a young lad (and with my parent’s permission), I started to explore the local woods and lanes. I ...
AS I get out of bed on this spring morning and open my window, I reflect that the most wonderful aspect of the onset of a new summer ...
TO many people passing through, Binfield Heath may look like a hamlet that sits along a minor road between Henley and Emmer Green. But ...
THE A4074 is a busy main road, there’s no doubt about that. The notorious “13 bends of death” runs between Chazey Heath and Cane End ...
I WAKE up this morning to bright sunlight. It’s only 6.30am but I get up with the knowledge that I have hours to go before my walk to ...
IT is another sweet early spring day. The sky is clear, leaves are emerging from their winter cloaks and birds are singing. There is a ...
MY word, hasn’t it been windy of late? I had intended to visit some nearby woodlands to see the early flowers but, being a cautious ...
ENTERING the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Checkendon, one is reminded of the sheer age of the building. The scent of the past ...
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Women in 15-mile Thames path walk for water charity
TEN women walked almost 15 miles along the River Thames while carrying a 20lb jerry can full of water for charity. The group, most of whom work at the Albert Fields hair salon in ... [more]
World famous orchestra returning to village festival
A WORLD famous chamber orchestra is returning to the Wargrave Village Festival. The Academy of St Martin in the Fields will play at St Mary’s Church in Mill Green for the ... [more]
Visitors lucky to see rare Loddon lily in bloom at nature reserve’s open day
MORE than 60 people attended an open day at the Withymead nature reserve near Goring. The visitors walked around the 22-acre site off the Ridgeway and admired the rare Loddon lily ... [more]
THREE churchwardens have been appointed in Wargrave. Sandra Baker, Helen Gradon and Peter Mayes were elected at the annual meeting of the parochial church council of St Mary’s ... [more]
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