Penny Post

5 days ago | pennypost.org.uk | Brian Quinn

A council like West Berkshire provides a wide range of servives, many of them statutory ones on behalf of the government. However, I can only think of two which virtually every resident will use all the time – roads and bins. Any changes to these are therefore always going to impact people in the areas they affect. Unless WBC is proposing something for all our roads – say, by suggesting driving on the right at weekends – highways changes have a purely local impact.

1 week ago | pennypost.org.uk | Brian Quinn

Our usual round-up of local news includes planning for a future after ths builders, A34 closures, last chance to take part in a leisure survey and the move to three-weekly bin collections – plus a cup final, a bus, studios, a triathalon and a pop-up. See also below for community notices and news from your local council. Upcoming Compton area events include Hampstead Norreys Plant/Cake Sale and VE Tea Dance. See below for details, plus regular events and group activities.

1 week ago | pennypost.org.uk | Brian Quinn

Ramsbury Primary School, near Marlborough, is looking for a full-time, experienced Class Teacher. We are an English Hub, one of just 34 nationwide, selected for our expertise in teaching reading and supporting schools, and as such are able to provide truly exciting opportunities for career progression for the right candidate.

1 week ago | pennypost.org.uk | Brian Quinn

Including national days, a ghastly aberration, the wrong time, not catching on, an alternative rhyme, VE Day, six different reasons, a local celebration, an electoral bloodbath, losing the plot, enjoy it while you can, nuclear powers, the last person, what the hell?, opposite paths, Graham Greene, an emigrated lynx, a gorgeous solo, a tiny wife, a light-year walk, a sobering figure and Adrian IV.

1 week ago | pennypost.org.uk | Brian Quinn

To celebrate the hundredth edition of Penny Post Hungerford in May 2025, we’re delighted to bring you a number of prize quizzes celebrating some of the best things that this wonderful town has to offer. This one concerns one of my favourite places, the Hungerford Leisure Centre. If there were a prize for the most regular user of the pool there, I think I might win it – I’m there more days than not trying to keep to my self-imposed weekly lengths target.