Lauren Abbott

Gardeners, allotment holders, businesses and schools are all being urged to join a town’s first ever gardening competition and here’s how to enter.

Newbury students are being hit with a £630 price increase for bus passes to their college - a rise one parent has described as ‘outrageous’.

A project to design a new town centre mural is now under way with the first community painting dates confirmed for those keen to get involved.

Warm sunshine and an excellent spread of refreshments drew visitors to a church fair, which also included live music and children’s entertainment.

Newbury College has held its annual Career Academy Awards event - with a whopping 48 accolades handed to students on its full time study programmes.

A charity is planning a wellbeing walk to help it continue its work at a time, it says, when children’s mental health is ‘seldom out the headlines’.

A firm based in Greenham was among those invited to attend a top government cyber security summit held at Downing Street.

Fears that new homes may not have enough water for drinking, washing and flushing toilets is set to throw a council’s entire housing plan into chaos.

People are being urged to take extra care outside during the hot weather after firefighters were sent to more than 30 fires outside in three days.

A man from Hampshire has been banned from keeping or owning cattle and pigs after a ‘significant’ animal welfare investigation by a council.