Friday, 10 October 2025
Delivering the news from Henley on Thames and South Oxfordshire for over 100 years
WHAT does Austria have lots of and none of? It’s not a cryptic crossword clue — it’s far more straightforward than that. Having enjoyed a lovely holiday there last year I can confirm that Austria has bucketloads of beautiful scenery, lakes with water...
EVERY four years we have the pleasure of watching some of the world’s finest athletes perform. This year in Paris the image of the ...
WITH the news of rioting across the country featuring heavily in the headlines at the moment, for those affected, fear and anxiety ...
SHIULI Davis runs an interior design consultancy from Royal Mansions in Henley. She has lived in the town since 2005 with her husband ...
WE recently bought a coconut shell filled with suet from a local garden centre and hung it outside. Within a couple of days a pair of ...
LOOKING out of the rear window into the garden, I see a crowd of jackdaws descend on the seed that Rosemary has hung outside in a very ...
SPRING has sprung early. Primrose-coloured catkins are already floating about in the breeze on hazel bushes. Daisies are proclaiming ...
THE night sky is startlingly clear as I step outside to feed the still active and perpetually hungry hedgehogs. As I stand and gaze to ...
ROSEMARY parks close to the entrance to some of the first big commercial gravel pits at Sonning Eye. The old road that leads to the ...
IT’S early morning. I check on the state of my garden. All seems well. I throw out some grain for the birds. A male blackbird drops ...
MY friend Rosemary Henderson is driving the two of us east through and past Maidenhead. As we approach the outskirts of Slough, she ...
IN the run-up to the general election, our major political parties suddenly pledged to plant millions of trees across the United ...
More News:
A CROWDFUNDER launched last week to save a theatre in Sonning has raised almost £19,000. The Mill at Sonning launched the fundraiser in a bid to secure a £125,000 cash injection ... [more]
A WOMAN from Sonning Common fractured her spine and ribs after colliding with motorbikes on a bridleway where she was riding her horse. The woman was riding on the bridleway ... [more]
A WALK to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society will take place at Millennium Field in Sonning Common on Tuesday at 10am. It has been organised by Abbeycrest Nursing Home, with ... [more]
A SECTION of Blounts Court Road in Sonning Common will be closed starting Tuesday to allow for essential new water connection works. The road is expected to reopen on Friday. ... [more]
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