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French connection
19/12/22
GILLIAN Nahum, of Henley Sales & Charter, had a reminder of home during a recent trip to France. She was at the Musée Mer Marine in Bordeux when she spotted a steam launch with a Stuart Turner engine built in Henley. It’s a small world.
Ten years ago...
06/02/23
THE family of a mother-of-two who died suddenly have paid tributes to her. Claire Armitage, 27, was found dead at her home in Farleigh Mews, Caversham Park Village, by her mother. Police have said they are not treating her death as suspicious but ...
Twenty-five years ago...
ANGRY students from The Henley College are protesting that their courses are likely to be cut next year in a bid to save money. They learnt this week that vocational courses in beauty therapy, hairdressing and motor vehicle maintenance could be ...
Fifty years ago...
MORE than twice as many people have been convicted this year for drink-driving offences than last year in the Henley area, magistrates heard on Tuesday. Eighteen men and four women were convicted, compared with nine people the previous year. ...
13/02/23
A WOMAN is horrified after one of her rare breed pregnant ewes was killed. Tracy Betteridge found Coco, a Welsh Badger Face, who was five weeks away from giving birth to twins, bleeding to death in a field in Fawley. She says the animal’s ...
Twenty five years ago...
HENLEY councillors are to press ahead with making the town centre a car-free zone, despite the Government’s refusal to foot the bill. The town council is to apply to Oxfordshire County Council for agency powers to organise a 12-month ...
HENLEY’S MP Mr John Hay defended the Government’s methods of dealing with inflation in a long speech to local Conservatives on Friday. Politics, he said, was the art of the possible, not the impossible, and desperate situations ...
50 Years Ago
27/02/23
CATTLE and sheep could be making their comeback at this year’s Henley Show on September 8. They have been missing from the show for several years because of brucellosis restrictions but members of the Henley and District ...
25 Years Ago
LAST Thursday evening, a very serious accident befell Mrs Corbold, an aged lady who resides at Queen Street, Henley. It appears that the lady was crossing the road from Messrs Monk & Sons to Mr Turton Green’s. A motor ...
A hundred years ago...
20/02/23
LAST Thursday evening, the congregational hall in Henley was comfortably filled with a most appreciative audience composed of members of the Henley Horticultural Society and the Henley Literary Society to hear a ...
Hidden Henley
17/07/23
MY picture shows a blocked off door on Hambleden Church. The printed information inside this church says: “Opposite the exit is an old blocked off 14th century door. Called ‘the devil’s door’ it was a symbolic ...
Banners come back into fashion
05/12/22
FUNNY how things come around. We report this week how Henley Town Council wants to put banners up on the town hall to promote events taking place. This was previously suggested more than a decade ago by the ...
Cool people: Henley Literary Festival diary
14/10/21
THE festival’s green room at Hotel du Vin saw a most incongruous coupling when Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, arrived at the same time as rock icon and Sopranos star Stevie Van Zandt. The pair happily ...
Joke backfires
13/09/21
HENLEY town councillor David Eggleton is usually the first to crack a joke but he was in no mood to do so at last week’s meeting of recreation and amenities committee. Members had just decided not to ...
Best foot forward
12/07/21
CHOOSING footwear is not always the first thing on your mind when you have a busy schedule like Henley Mayor Sarah Miller. She visited Badgemore Primary School to take part in a wellbeing event and ...
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