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A MEGA hi-tech £15bn rebuild of AWE in Aldermaston is about to be submitted to West Berkshire Council. It also marks the organisation’s plans to turn Aldermaston into AWE’s main operation. “We have already closed our component factory...
FURTHER discussions will take place next week, said a council, over plans to close a large secondary school on the HampshireWest Berkshire border – amid a recommendation the authority now presses ahead with a full consultation into the...
A PETITION containing 254 signatures requesting that the No. 2 bus service be reinstated to its former route terminating at Pigeons Farm has been submitted to West Berkshire Council. Petitioners say that the revised route removes bus...
THE Government’s new planning guidelines are set to come into force across England at the end of this month. It will shift decision-making power away from elected local councillors and toward unelected planning officers using central rules.
POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a road traffic collision in which a woman in her 80s sustained life-threatening injuries. The collision, involving a grey Volkswagen Polo and a black Mercedes CLK occurred at around 1.30pm on...
IT’S beginning to feel a lot like Christmas at the NWN this week, as we officially launch this year’s Over 80s’ Parcel Fund. The Tea and Tobacco Fund, as it was initially called, was set up by the Newbury Weekly News in 1897, with editor Frank...
