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07/09/23

HENLEY station was evacuated on Monday evening and two trains were stopped because it was thought there was a bomb on the platform. The police arrived at about 7.40am and the station was closed for an hour. It was lucky for Henley after the ...

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20/11/23

FOR the first time in its history, Henley has been officially twinned with a foreign town. On Saturday, the public filled every inch of the town hall to watch the Mayor and town clerk sign a charter of friendship and present it to the ...

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22/04/24

IN a bid to preserve living space, South Oxfordshire District Council’s planning committee has decided that no more residential property in Henley should be released for conversion into offices. This bombshell was dropped by ...

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06/03/23

THE rates on some of the newer houses in Henley will be going down, Henley borough councillors heard on Monday. But the rates on some of the older houses will be going up. The borough rate was fixed at 10.5p, an increase in ...

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13/03/23

HENLEY experienced its first ever student demonstration on Wednesday involving nearly 100 full-time students at South Oxfordshire Technical College. The action was part of a campaign by the National Union of Students to ...

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29/01/24

SIXTEEN beds lie empty each night at Chilterns End old people’s home in Greys Road, Henley, while people who ought to be in them are taking up valuable hospital beds or are living at home. The reason? There are not ...

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07/08/23

WHEN people in St Anne’s Close, Henley, moved into their new houses earlier this year they were prepared to put up with noise from the nearby building site. But they didn’t reckon on having an adventure playground ...

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08/07/24

A TOWN council committee is recommending that the Red Lion Lawn in Henley should be renamed Falaise Gardens in honour of Henley’s twin town. The Mayor told a council meeting that something should be named after ...

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05/02/24

THE stewards of Henley Royal Regatta plan to build a housing estate on Fawley Meadows in a bid to keep the event alive. At a public meeting next Friday, local people will hear details of the scheme, which ...

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18/12/23

FROM December 31, shops and business premises in Henley will only be permitted to use electricity, with a few exceptions, on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Already this week most shops have had to ...

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09/10/23

A NEW cash dispenser has been provided for customers of the Henley branch of Lloyds Bank. The cashpoint is the first of its type in Britain and the first to be linked to a computerised branch ...

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16/10/23

ABOUT 90 Henley people spent last week as guests of French families in Falaise in Normandy, the town with which Henley is to form a twinning alliance next month. Henley Symphony Orchestra ...

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25/09/23

THE main point which came out of this year’s Henley Town Forum was that the public would like to see the town council retain control of as many services as possible when local government ...

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04/03/24

THIS year’s rates for commercial premises in Henley will be almost one-and-a-half times as high as last year’s. The average Henley householder will have to find an extra £19.43. Hardest ...

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11/03/24

HENLEY Royal Regatta’s plans to develop Fawley Meadows as a housing estate may well have been scotched by the Government’s plans to nationalise development land, announced this week in ...

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