Do your homework on this; it was in fact West German government and Jim Callaghan that urged the deployment of GLCM.

That sounds even more downmarket...the gambling shops anyway.

Does anyone know if the Narrowboat is scheduled to reopen?

There was talk of a retail redevelopment of the area but I see the pub is still there and there is no evidence of construction work.

Walking along the Kennet a few days ago, I could not help but notice how shabby and downmarket the area around the pub is now.

Maybe it was being aimed at Julian Swift-Hook.

Local newspapers seriously need to raise their game if they are to survive the next decade. The way they need to do it is by going upmarket ad appealing to the ABC1 demographic. They need to offer something unique that cannot be found online and resist the temptation to go downmarket and plebeian.

The Newbury Weekly News must make it its New Year's Resolution to abandon cheap content: Endless photo pages on school proms, new school classes, what children want for Christmas etc. I'd rather see more letters (although no more anti-Brexit ranters please).

We also used to have a TV guide that was suddenly stopped with no apology or explanation. This needs to return.

Au contraire; the point I was making is that it of supreme indifference at best to many readers and is also pointless and annoying.

Do we want local children to be that narcissistic to believe the rest of us want to know what they want each December? I don't think so.

Doubtful as they don't speak English there so no point.

It's just not news though is it? Why should the population of West Berks want to know what Kevin from Hungerford wants for Christmas?

If the Newbury Weekly News wants to publish stuff like this, perhaps it could be done on the website only so those who want to see it can look at it there rather than having it pushed on us in the pages of the newspaper which should cover news stories and not the whims and wishes of people we do not know. I don't want to pay money for that.

This is part of my point. Since moving to the more downmarket tabloid format, I cannot help but notice that the content has also taken a sharp nosedive down to a pretty low-brow level. Back when this was a broadsheet, we had none of this pointless stuff like pages of prom events, school class supplements or daft stuff on what people want for Christmas...I bet the circulation rates were much higher too.

I see this week's Newbury Weekly news had more junk to burden West Berkshire's recycling services; pages of garbage on what children want for Christmas...and this is news because?

What a complete waste of time. If I buy a newspaper, I expect it to print news, not whimsical tut.

GET IT RIGHT NWN.

You must be aware that local newspapers are closing in their droves. With the publication of this sort of material, I'm not surprised.

Let's look at the facts: Catalonia is akin to South East England. It is the centre of economic dynamism in Spain.

If it leaves Spain, the country will automatically lose 20% of economic activity; a very serious setback.

As many of us know, it was not just Greece that should never have joined the single currency; the books were cooked to get the likes of Spain and Italy in too. So, if Spain lose 20% of its economy, it may well again plunge the Euro into extremely hot water and possibly tip it over into collapse. So, this may well be why the EU's gauleiters would rather see a united Spain.

I saw this and was rather disappointed:

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/home/22...of-newbury.html

What we were all praying for really was a sculpture of our very own Julian Swift-Hook; a man surely deserving of an edifying work of art?

Really? The Russians are threatening us, flying nuclear bombers around our borders and submarines around our coasts. The Russians are on the course of full on expansionism and the ringleaders of a great international conspiracy to subvert democracy.

Can someone explain to me the specific reasons why Councillor Julian Swift Hook is such a controversial figure in West Berkshire?

At the end of this election, I think the reality that the workers revolution is never coming might finally dawn on Jeremy Corbyn. Maybe he'll be converted to New Labour!

It was the Soviet Union then rather than " Russia".

I'm definitely not a Guardian reader. I just want to live in a clean and safe environment... hardly a big ask is it?

Does anyone have any conclusive data on NOX emissions locally?

I read with great concern that the air in our towns and cities has become a lethal toxic cocktail amid the explosion/ubiquity of diesel-powered vehicles.

Amid this, I have read little to nothing on how toxic the air is in Newbury and Thatcham; can anyone offer any conclusive data on times and places of dangerous levels of NOX and other toxic emissions locally?

I have no objections whatsoever to the proliferation or renewable energy sources or nuclear power either.

Yes, but plastics can be recycled or be made of bioplastic.

You say that, but we are gradually phasing out dirty, fossil fuels. With the huge amount of electricity now being generated by wind turbines and solar cells, hydrogen becomes a very desirable fuel and really is the answer to our (green) prayers. Bring it on!

Please prove this.

If Toyota has perfected it, we really need not worry.

As part of my overall commitment to reducing my carbon footprint and moving evermore toward living sustainably, I am looking to buy a hydrogen-powered car like a Toyota Mirai.

Does anyone know any gas stations in West Berkshire that currently supply hydrogen to the consumer?