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This issue: Friday, August 19 to 26, 2011 VOL 19: 911 UK NO.1. Advertising closes for next issue on Friday, August 19 at 5pm.
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KE N D A Fashion o p e n e d
in Hungerford’s Bridge Street on Saturday morning with an excellent array of fashions from around the globe and also jewellery and accesories.
The opening marks renewed confidence in Hungerford as a trading town.
Comments at the opening centred upon the excellent quality of the goods at reasonable prices.
Kenda fashion is at 5a Bridge Street.It is owned and run by brother and sister team Keith Read and
Linda Marcham.
NEW BUSINESSKENDA FASHION SHOWS
HUNGERFORD CONFIDENCE There is increasing concern over demand for use of Marlborough Common.
Marlborough Rugby Club has applied for planning permission to extend its club buildings and Marlborough Town Council is seeking extra space for parking at the cemetery.
Both projects have support and both are also being questioned by residents.
MARLBOROUGH CONCERN OVER COMMON PROJECTS
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Charnham House, 29-30 Charnham [email protected]: 01488 684363 & 683536www.gentlemans-shop.com
The GentlemanÕs Shop
6a park StreetTel: 01488 685314
HowardsPet Care Ltd
Unit 4 Charnham Lane, Industrial Estate
Tel: 01488 681888
10 High StreetT: 01488 682419
Kennet House, 19 High StreetTel: 0844 248 0021
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Wessex Place, 127 High StreetTel 01488 682277
Charnham Street
T: 01488 682512
F: 01488 [email protected]
www.thebearhotelhungerford.co.uk
The Hungerford Bookshop
24 High Street01488 683480
- 109 High Street –01488 681117
www.peppermint-cream.co.uk
Shabby Chic
peppermint cream
Tel: 01488 684105Charnham Lane
sales@hungerfordgardenmachinery.co.ukwww.hungerfordgardenmachinery.co.uk
T: 01488 682162
The Sun Inn Hungerford (Charnham Street)
Tel: 01488 68632120 Bridge Street
[email protected] www.beicappelli.com
Roberta of Hungerford21 Charnham Street
Tel: 01488 68 28 88
www.roberta-of-hungerford.co.uk
Tel: 01488 682721117 High Street
www.threeswans.net
Tel: 01488 682721117 High Street
www.casanova-restaurant.co.uk
Chilton FoliatTel: 01488 682202Fax: 01488 683589
Stag Service Station
Martin& the
Magpie120 High Street Tel: 01488 681062
4 Bridge Street Tel: 01488 684240 [email protected]
44 High StreetHungerford
01488 683237
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As a child, I had an unusual education in having attended fi fteen different schools before I was ten years old. That arose from the fact that after World War 1 ended, in 1918, my father, who remained
a serving Army offi cer, was posted to many different places and my mother and I went with him. One of them was Aldershot, Hants, which gave me the peculiar claim to have been educated at a girl’s convent. This was a famous convent called Hillside, in nearby Farnborough, which, in those days, ran a small preparatory school for boys. I clearly remember being shown by a nun how to make the Sign of the Cross by numbers and being told by another that my eight-year old soul was like a white sheet that had been spattered with black ink! (I wonder how she would describe it now?)
My serious education did not begin until 1923 when my father was axed from the Army in a Government savings drive (just as is happening now) and set up home in the market-town of Darlington in Durham on its southern border with North Yorkshire. After being given a fi ne start at a primary school, I won a scholarship to the local Grammar School where the staff were so dedicated that they inspired me, scholastically, and gave me a taste for acquiring knowledge that became almost pathological.
In those days, the stories in most schoolboy magazines were based in boarding schools and we all knew about Eton College and the strange garb of the pupils but, far from poking fun at it, as seems the current trend provoked by some politicians, most of us would have been proud to have been there. It was common knowledge that many of the nation’s most distinguished leaders had been educated there, acquiring their drive and determination not only in the classroom but ‘on the playing fi elds of Eton’. (David Cameron is the 19th Old Etonian Prime Minister!)
I learned a bit more about Eton, which had been founded in 1440, when, after securing an honours degree in science in 1935, I spent a year at London’s Institute of Education to qualify for a Teacher’s Diploma. (There was a joke
– with much truth in it - stating that ‘Those who can - do. Those who can’t - teach. And those who can’t teach - teach education’). However, I remained relatively ignorant about what was widely regarded as Britain’s fi nest school until the 1970’s when my eyes were opened by fi rst-hand experience. As has been so common in my professional life, it was my interest in spies that did it.
In 1951 a disreputable, though intelligent, member of the Foreign Offi ce, called Guy Burgess, had revealed that he was a Soviet agent by defecting to Russia where, it transpired, he nostalgically wore his Old Etonian tie, having been a pupil there. In 1970, or thereabouts, the proprietor of my newspaper, Sir Max Aitken, had been approached by the then headmaster to ask me if I would give a talk at Eton about spies in general, with no holds barred concerning Burgess. Traditionally, while many boys attended the morning service in the historic chapel there, they were given the choice of attending ‘The Alternative Assembly’, which was a talk given by a visiting speaker in a large hall. I was happy to oblige..
I was even happier when I was invited to spend the previous evening and night as a guest of one of the Housemasters and to have dinner and breakfast with some of the senior boys, when we discussed many subjects. In that short time, and during my address, I was unforgettably impressed by the quality of the staff and pupils and by whole ambience of the college. So, when sour-grapes left-wingers pour scorn on a great British institution, at least one old grammar school boy vigorously responds ‘Floreat Etona!’.
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Chilton Foliat St Mary’s Church members will hold their annual produce fair on September 10 in the church
grounds from 11am. Contact 01488 683541.
Chilton Foliat’s annual art exhibition will be held in the village hall on Saturday, September 10 between 10am
and 5pm and Sunday, September 11 between 10am and 1pm. Contact 07796875722.
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All types of domestic plumbing Installation & maintenance,
bathrooms, en-suites, showersTel Hungerford: 07771 511331
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01635 524110www.chemdryclean.co.uk/fl air Email: [email protected]
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WINDOW CLEANING CARPET CLEANING
DECORATORS
PrinellDECORATORS
Tel: 07900 012181
All specialist fi nishes undertakenThe Wiltshire decorators for over 40years
The Hungerford HandymanMinor electrical work, wallpapering, painting, small areas of plastering/fi lling, plumbing, wall & fl oor tiling, laminate fl oors, household repairs, fi tting new doors to kitchen cabinets, assembling fl at pack furniture,
Gardening and garden maintenance AND... ALL THOSE OTHER LITTLE JOBS YOU DON’T HAVE TIME FOR.
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BRUSH AND VACSpecial OAP rates
All appliances
CHIMNEY SWEEP
01488 648417
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01672 521123
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ACS Window & cleaning services. com-mercial & residential. Fully insured 01488 681669 mob. 07766 655093
Carpet Clean - Ricky Flint, established 1997. Professional, local service. Great Bedwyn 07799 215837 / 01672 871414
• Brush & Vacuum• NACS Registered & Certifi ed • Fully Insured Chimney Sweep
T: 01488 649028 M: 07787 416005www.sootysweeps.co.uk
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HUNGERFORD DESIGN LTDPLANS FOR
Planning & Building Regs/New Houses & Extensions
Listed Buildings - Land SurveysFree Consultation please contact:Sidney Webb - Tel: 01488 683424E: [email protected]
DESIGN SERVICES
BUILDING SERVICES
C.E.W. BUILDERSComplete building services
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Purpose made woodworkWindows, doors, bookcases, furniture,
staircases, restorations & more.....www.randkbespokejoinery.co.uk
visit our workshop at Unit 1A Smitham Bridge Road,
Hungerford or call Ray Farris on01488 684923 / 07595225077
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CHRIS RADFORD, Wagon Yard, Marlborough. 0800 731 6879, evenings 01672 516006.
Gaenor Farren-Smith MBAcC, MRCHM Hungerford01488 686946 www.myacucare.co.uk.
Deep tissue massage, reflexology. Claire Digweed, 01488682187 / 07810 886673
VISITING practice Jane Darby WMSCh MPS Pract . Tel. 01672 512211.
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BUILDING DEMOLITION IN HUNGERFORD PT II
MEMORIES OF HUNGERFORD & THE KENNET VALLEY
Continuing with our town of Hungerford and its disappearing buildings
I left the readers in the railway station, so now down to Park Street. Remembering that the Station Road car park was once large gardens attached to the banks and there were large greenhouses attached to the
Three Swans Hotel back down lower Park Street. The demolition of Oaks offi ce and workshops now replaced by Williams Court, into Church Street, noting the disappearance of the shops of Barnards & Bartholomew and that this stood as an ugly gap in the High Street for many years. Then most signifi cantly the car park where once stood the 5 storey mill that was James & Co. This burnt down in June 1980, lets not forget the old gents’ toilets that stood on the roadside on the rear entrance to the Corn Exchange.
Proceed along Church Street into Smitham Bridge Road, Garage Services disappear and this was built on the site of the Old Wessex Electricity store sheds. Then the massive changes with James Mill demolished for the 2nd time, and then Davidson & McClean Engineering and the, oh dear for me, the sad demolition of the whole range of the Chilton Electric buildings and opposite the old stable buildings which were used by Chilton Engineering, this whole area at the western end of the town turned into houses.
To the top of Church Way (in my youth this hill was always called “Dog Hill”) stood the Regent Cinema a haven for fi lm goers for almost 50 years, to the top of the High Street and St John’s Mission Hall and of course Dods Nurseries and its greenhouses and fi nally returning to the eastern edge in Park Street. The demolition of the workhouse/hospital, a building I have written on in the past and fi nally in Fairview Road, Macklins Dairy Cowsheds, where the cows were driven down from the common to be milked. I won’t attempt to paint a picture of all the changes in the shop trades and ownerships, but please let me know if you want me to list these.
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AUGUST 201118:4th test Eng v India The Oval20: ARK Meadow Day 01672 51102821: Croft Green Bowling 3pm22: Croft Green Bowling 2.30pm
28: Hungerford Farmers Market28: Croft Green Bowling - all day28-29: Notting Hill Carnival29: Summer bank holiday31: Over 50 club Hungerford31: Croft Green Bowling 2.30pm
SEPTEMBER 20111: Partridge season opens3: Croft Green Bowling - all day4: HEAT Walk 10am Hung TH4: Croft Green Bowling - all day5: Marlb Emb Gld - 01793 5255177: Marlb WI Wesley Hall 7.30pm7: Hung’d WI Crft Hll 7.30pm7: Croft Green Bowling 2pm7: Oak Tree Lunch 3 Swans8: Pewsey Farmers Market8: Croft Green Bowling 2.30pm10: Last night of the proms10: Gt Bedwyn Church Fete 2-4pm10: Croft Green Bowling 3pm10-11: CHILTON FOLIAT ART EXHIBITION Saturday: 10am-5pm Sunday: 10am - 1pm14: Tuesday Club Hungerford16: Marlb Artists Exi @ MTC 2-8pm16-18: Goodwood revival meeting17: Marlb Artists Exi @ MTC 9am-6pm17-18: Newbury Show17: Croft Green Bowling 3pm18: Book Fair Hungerford18: Marlb Artists Exi @ MTC 9-4.3019: KVNTA KENNET VALLEY HALL 7.30PM20: MU Sing a hymn 1pm lunch22-25: Marlb literary festival24: Croft Green Bowling 3pm25: Hungerford Farmers Market25: Eenie Meenie Market Hung TH28: Over 50 club Hungerford29: Merchant’s Hse Autumn LectureOCTOBER 20111: Pheasant season opens1-2: Exhi.of Wedding’s Past Lambourn2: HEAT Walk 10am Hung TH3: Marlb Emb Gld AGM- 01793
5255175: Hung’d WI Crft Hll 7.30pm5: Oak Tree Lunch 3 Swans12: Tuesday Club Hungerford13: Pewsey Farmers Market16: Prize Bingo Hung’d Brit Legion 3pm17: KVNTA KENNET VALLEY HALL 7.30PM18: MU Croft Hall 2.3023: Prize Bingo Hung’d Brit Legion 3pm23: Hungerford Farmers Market26: Over 50 club Hungerford30: Prize Bingo Hung’d Brit Legion 3pm30: Brit summertime ends
NOVEMBER 20112: Hung’d WI Crft Hll 7.30pm2: Oak Tree Lunch 3 Swans6: HEAT Walk 10am Hung TH7: Marlb Emb Gld - 01793 5255179: Tuesday Club Hungerford10: Pewsey Farmers Market11: Remembrance Day12: Lord Mayor’s Show London13: Remembrance Day parade15: MU Quiet afternoon 2.3018: Variety Show Cft Hall 7.30pm19: Variety Show Cft Hall 7.30pm19: Craft Fair Hung TH 10am-4pm26: Newbury Gold Cup.26: Chilton Foliat Quiz & Supper Night27: Hungerford Farmers Market30: Over 50 club Hungerford
DECEMBER 20114: HEAT Walk 10am Hung TH5 MEG Xmas Lunch - 01793 5255177: Over 50 club Hungerford7: Hung’d WI Crft Hll 7.30pm7: Oak Tree Lunch 3 Swans8: Pewsey Farmers Market10: Hung’ Town Band Cncrt 7.30pm TH10+11: Kennet Sngs Xmas Cncrt12: KVNTA KENNET VALLEY HALL 7.30PM14: Tuesday Club Hungerford16: Chilton Foliat Carols18: Hungerford Farmers Market20: MU Carol Service St Lawr 2.3024: Christmas Eve25: Christmas day26: Bank holiday for Chist. Day27: Boxing Day bank holiday.
JANUARY 20124: Hung’d WI Crft Hll 7.30pm
FEBRUARY 20121: Hung’d WI Crft Hll 7.30pm
MARCH 20127: Hung’d WI Crft Hll 7.30pm
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HareRestaurant the
Grade II listed village inn, set in an area of outstanding natural beauty above the valley of the racehorse
www.theharerestaurant.co.uk
Ermin Street, Lambourn Woodlands RG17 7SD
M4 Junction 14 • 3 miles on B4000 Tel 01488 71386
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Spanish classes. All levels. GCSE support. Experienced teacher. Tel. 01672 871382.
THE HALFWAYBistro & Piano Bar
Open Tuesday - Saturday Lunch 12 noon - 2.30pm Dinner 7pm - 9.30pmSunday 12 noon - 4.30pm
Bath Road, Newbury RG20 8NR Tel: 01488 [email protected] www.thehalfwaybistro.com
JAY FAIRS
IN HUNGERFORD TOWN HALLSATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2011
8.30 am UNTIL 4 pmREFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
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curtain maker
Experienced curtain maker 01672 871496
Registered Childminder
Fun, safe, happy care for your child. Full/part days, before/after school, holiday care. 07885 200472
Land Rover Discovery TDV6 HSE 2005 69K miles. Cairns Blue, 7 seat, Bluetooth, all usual extras. Excellent condition. LR Warranty until Dec. MoT Feb ‘12, £17,500 - T: 07843 378890
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CAR BOOT SALEMarlborough & District Rotary Club
THE FOOTBALL CLUBELCOT LANE, MARLBOROUGH Bank Holiday Monday, August 29th
From 8.00 am to 1pmCars:
Prepaid £5On the day £8
Vans:Prepaid £10
On the day £12
Tel: 01672 516338 Refreshments available
The Hungerford WI is having a party on Saturday 20th August at the Croft Hall Hungerford at 3.00pm to celebrate their 80th birthday. We are having a traditional afternoon
tea and hope a number of the ladies will be dressed in 1930s style. The Berkshire WI Chairman will be attending together with past members.
The Hungerford Arcade is also hoping to have a window display of the Hungerford WI from the 1930s to the present day. -Shelagh Parry
HUNGERFORD WI CELEBRATES 80TH BIRTHDAY WITH PARTY
Harvesting is well advanced in Marlborough and Hungerford area and results are generally better than expected earlier in the season.
Veteran farmer David Liddiard told the The Adviser that winter barley has been going up to 3.4 tons to the acre and wheat to 4.1 tons in chalk areas
He says the harvest is well advanced with modern machines able to deal with up to 120 acres a day.
While crops on chalk ground are satisfactory, most have failed on gravel ground and malting barley would be short along with grass and sileage.
HARVEST COULD BE BETTER THAN EARLIER EXPECTED
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FOR YOUR ENQUIRIESRing 01488-683807
07768 400578
All types of fencing supplied & erected. Tree lopping & pruning etc. Hedgecutting
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HungerfordTree Surgery & Garden Services
All aspects of Tree care, Hedge cutting & garden maintenance
One off or regular visits completed with care & expertise
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J Hawkins TREE SURGEON
All aspects of tree workHedge cutting and stump grinding
Trees and hedges supplied and plantedSeasoned mulch and logs available
• Local Authority and Forestry Commision approved• Established 1990 • £10,000,000 liablity
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PAVE-RITE LIMITEDFor a professionally installed
high quality block paved driveway or patio please contact
Andrew Scaife Mobile 07778 734500
24hr ans/fax 01264 791132 email [email protected]
Over 25 years experience
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WORLD’S BIGGEST COFFEE MORNINGTo the Editor -
As you may already know, here at Macmillan Cancer Support we are currently in the process of promoting our fl agship event, World’s Biggest Coffee Morning on Friday 30th September 2011.
We hope to get as many people as possible from Wiltshire to register to hold their own event in the coming months. I have attached an offi cial poster for the event as well as a press release describing what it’s all about – would it be possible for your publication to print one or both in an upcoming edition?
Any help and publicity would be greatly appreciated and please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions. We look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes, Jennifer PoolmanWorld’s Biggest Coffee Morning Intern, WiltshireMacmillan Cancer Support, Wiltshire Fundraising Offi ce, Suite
6, Pembroke Centre, Cheney Manor Estate, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 2PQ Tel: 01793 432252
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The adviser, Friday, May 6 to 13, 2011 WHEN SEEKING ADVERTISING RESULTS... TURN TO THE ADVISER
Specialists in...Roof Tiling, Slating, Flat Roofi ng, Leadwork & Exterior Refurbishment
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PLUMBING SERVICES
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MEMBURY BUSINESS PARK Secure Container Storage
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Condensa� on free, clean, 20’ Containers from £30/week Offi ce/Light Industrial Units
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DANCEBallet Classes for children from 3yrs.
Venues: Hungerford,Marlborough,Pewsey & Ramsbury - RAD Registered Teachers
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Day: 07833 750 889Eve: 01488 684 334
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• Full Body Shop Services • Specialise in Carbon Fibre and Kevlar Body Preparation
• Small dents to full restorations • Insurance Work • Courtesy Car • Tyres • Exhausts • Clutches
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HUNGERFORD CLEAN-UP SUGGESTIONSHungerford Town Council’s Recreation, Amenities and War Me-morials committee will seek clean-up work at the entrances to Hungerford, St Saviour’s area, the skatepark, Triangle Field sur-rounds and Bridge Street war memorial.
Just a quick up date following on from the Retailers Meeting last month.
Road Works – High Street still due to fi nish week ending 30th July (as per Wales & West yesterday), we will see! There are a further fi ve weeks of disruption to follow at the Southern end of the High Street, opposite Atherton Crescent, at some point. We are still awaiting a date on this and Nigel Perrin is keeping on top of this and as soon as this date is know it’ll be passed on.
Tourist Information – First the boards on the library, Jenny Booth has been doing a lot of work getting the details, contacts etc and a meeting is taking place on August 11th to attempt to get Hungerford information on them, so we’ll update you asap.
Anthony Buckwell will be Chairing a working party which is a joint venture between the Chamber of Commerce, Town Council and Town and Manor looking at improving tourist facilities’. However in the meantime the Chamber and Sugar Mouse have joined “forces” (must be a better word, but can’t think of it!) and will be providing a Tourist Information Point in Sugar Mouse. The space to accommodate this is being provided free of charge and the Chamber are providing and funding the display fi xtures and signage. So what we need now is as much information as possible to put there, if your a B&B/Hotel etc please do supply us with any advertising material you have (tourist will have access to the phone in Sugar Mouse to check vacancies etc). Basically any information that is Hungerford related is most welcome, if you can’t get down to the shop just let me know and I’ll collect the info’ later this week. It’s planned to have this up and running by the end of this week for the start of the main tourist season.
Welcome for Hero’s – Robert Johnston is currently on holiday, updates will follow asap.
Just for your info – for those that haven’t yet heard the planning application for the budget hotel has been granted on appeal – Ben Blake
RETAILERS MEETING UPDATE
NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR JOG
Hungerford’s John O’Gaunt Community Technology College has received national recognition, headteacher, Neil Spurdell reports in the school’s
magazine.Mr Spurdell said: “It is extremely important that the school
is recognised within the community and has the support from Hungerford locals in particular, but recently, we received national recognition for the improvements that we have made at John O’Gaunt. On the strength of last year’s GCSE results, we can now proudly boast to be the most improved secondary school in the South East from 2009 - 2010 and, perhaps even more impressively, the most improved school covering an even greater region over the period 2007-2010. This is testament to the hard work of the students and staff we have within the school and having made such enormous strides, we are determined to maintain and build upon the levels we have reached”.
8.8.11
CHILTON FOLIAT PRODUCE FAIRChilton Foliat St Mary’s Church members will hold their annual produce fair on September 10 in the church grounds from 11am. Contact 01488 683541.
8.8.11
CHILTON FOLIAT ANNUAL ART EXHIBITIONChilton Foliat’s annual art exhibition will be held in the village hall on Saturday, September 10 between 10am and 5pm and Sunday, September 11 between 10am and 1pm. Contact 07796875722.
HUNGERFORD WELL OPEN FOR BUSINESSHungerford trade is hoped to return to normal after many weeks of disruption through essential gas works in the main street.Traffi c lights were removed on Thursday night and normal fl ow resumed. About six traders are reported to be seeking compensation for busi-ness they allege was lost during the works.