Saturday, 27 April 2024
Delivering the news from Henley on Thames and South Oxfordshire for over 100 years
FIFTY years ago tomorrow a man from Henley became the best darts player in the country. Peter Chapman, a gardener from Harpsden Road, won the News of the World championship — then the biggest in the country — at the grand finals in front of 12,000...
AN elderly man was taken to hospital after a collision with a car in Henley. Thames Valley Police closed Hart Street in both directions from around noon following the incident outside the Spice Merchant restaurant. A fire crew from...
A CHOCOLATE shop in Henley is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Gorvett & Stone, a family-run business in Duke Street, has been ...
A WOMAN has told how she found a train trashed by vandals. Phoebe Graham was among the passengers on the 10.42pm Great Western Railway ...
A NEW Henley festival with a theme of wellbeing has been postponed. Hlth is Wlth was due to take place on Mill Meadows from May 31 to ...
FOUR fathers of Team GB rowers have teamed up to row the length of the River Thames for charity. Nick Digby, Hugh Elwes, Rory Carnegie ...
THE new Mayor of Henley will be Rory Hunt. The current Deputy Mayor will assume the role at the mayor-making ceremony at the town hall ...
A MAN from Bix was part of a choir that has qualified for the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent. Alfie Hay, 78, is the grandfather ...
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A WOMAN from Shiplake completed her first marathon in London on Sunday before vowing never to run another one. Diane James, 57, was one of a record-breaking 50,000 runners who ... [more]
VISITORS to Watlington can now sleep in one of the town’s churches as part of a fundraising initiative. St Leonard’s Church in Pyrton Lane has joined a number of others around the ... [more]
ALMOST 95 per cent of children in Oxfordshire who will be starting primary school in September have been awarded their first-choice place. The total of 6,613 applicants (94.59 per ... [more]
AN election for the new Thames Valley police and crime commissioner will take place on Thursday, May 2. Five candidates are standing in the election. The commissioner is the ... [more]
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