09:30AM, Monday 05 January 2026
EARLY on Christmas morning, Shiplake was visited by one of the most disastrous fires ever known in the village. It appears that Mr H T Simms was roused about 4am by a crackling noise and, on looking out of his bedroom window, he saw smoke and flames belching forth from Mr R H Gooch’s stores opposite. He immediately telephoned Henley police station and the fire brigade was summoned.
The management of the Henley Palace Cinema have booked for the New Year week two gigantic film attractions. For the first three days, Nazimova, Lou Tellegen and Otis Harlan in The Redeeming Sin will be the foremost attraction. The comedy, So This Is Art, will also be shown.
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A former head of music at Newlands Girls’ School in Maidenhead has been banned from teaching indefinitely over a litany of ‘sexually motivated’ advances on students.
It’s the ‘end of an era’ for Maidenhead Golf Club after members played a final round at their Shoppenhangers course before moving off.
Liverpool Football Club jerseys, red balloons and ribbons adorned streets across the town to commemorate Reuben Virdee, 11, who passed away earlier this month.
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