community yearbook 2018

JANUARY

Marla’s Christmas joy THIS little girl from Newbury couldn’t stop Newbury Weekly News W:286.501mm H:0.353mm ISSUEDATE_ID 2_3

Thursday, 25 January, 2018

Parking profits rise WEST Berkshire Council made almost £1.5m £1,969,542 from car park ticket sales and a further £130,636 from on-street ticket sales.

through parking charges, fines and permits in the last financial year. Figures revealed the local authority ended 2015-16 with record profits of £1,497,830 from its parking operations – £237,000 more than the previous year’s total of £1,260,043. The surplus included funds generated from all parking activities, including off- street and on-street ticket sales, penalty charge notices (PCNs) and permits. It was the fifth year in a row that parking profits had risen. Between April 2015 and March 2016, West Berkshire Council brought in

smiling after being given a new hand for Christmas. Marla Trigwell was born with- out a left hand, but the three- and-a-half-year-old barely took off the printed prosthetic since she received it from Newbury and District Hackspace. The 3D printed hand – a piece of cutting-edge technology – was made specifically for her by the local community group. After many weeks tweaking the printer, the group presented Marla with her hand, wrapped like a Christ- mas present. Marla’s mother, Joanne Taylor, said she thought she had prepared herself for the event, but could not contain her emotion. She said: “I was a mess and in floods of tears. The look on her face made it all worth- while.”

A total of £236,110 was paid to the council in parking fines, while £46,277 was paid in bus lane PCNs. Along with other miscella- neous income streams, the council took in a total of £3,049,776 during the finan- cial year. However, West Berkshire Council spent a total of £1,551,946 on running its parking operations, an increase from £1,492,626 in 2014/15. Parking charges in council- run car parks in Newbury, Thatcham, Pangbourne, and Theale all increased in the previous year.

Bentley makes an instant impact NEW SIGNING Warren Bentle y described Hung erford Town as ‘the perfect fit ’ as he slotted in seamlessl y to score on his de but after coming on with 30 minutes to go in Crusaders ’3-1 home win over Whitehawk in National Lea gue South. That goal was the perfect fit f or his new club as well, and it came after the pr olific marks- man signed f ollowing his r elease by troubled Gospor t Borough. Bentley had onl y met his new team-ma tes on the night of the ma tch at Bulpit Lane . Izzy’s back with a bang NEWBURY AC’s Izzy Fry bounced back to form to win the senior girls Berkshire Schools Cross Country Championships at the Showground. Running for Park House, she tackled the tricky conditions made worse by a hard overnight frost and reversed her result in the recent Berkshire County AA Championships by beating off the challenge of Reading AC’s Kirsty Walker. St Bart’s Luci Robertson was 11th in the year 8/9 race and Kitty Shepherd-Cross of Downe House came home third in the year 10/11 age group. All three earned invitations to represent Berkshire Schools at Brands Hatch in February.

Marla Trigwell shows off her 3D-printed hand

charity that helps children born with upper limb differ- ences and their families. “We learned there’s not a lot that she won’t be able to do. If she wants to do, it she can.”

Miss Taylor thought that her daughter wouldn’t be able to perform certain actions because of her missing hand. But she was proved wrong after contacting Reach, a

Radio club chimes in AN amateur radio club helped a Lambourn man keep the village’s ancient church clock ticking over. David Harris was first called upon to help when the clock chimes at St Michael and All Angels Church went wild and Mr Harris needs to hear the chimes. He said: “Unfortunately, partly due to my age and partly because of a new building that’s been put up, I can’t hear them properly any more.”

Danyl Johnson presented the winners with their cheques Dancing in the street! SIX neighbours from Thatcham were £30,000 better off after their lucky over the shock of winning. I’m retired now and there’s nothing that I need, but it’s lovely to know that there’s money there if I want to do something.” postcode won them a combined £180,000.

and would not stop striking. That was back in 2002 and, having fixed the problem with the help of a clock- maker, he has kept meticu- lous records ever since. These show that, despite now having a electric wind- ing mechanism, the clock gains a few seconds from time to time. The only answer is to physi- cally adjust the mechanism

Having heard of his plight, the Newbury And District Amateur Radio Society (NADARS) stepped in. Following a visit to Mr Harris’ home, NADARS member Phill Morris said: “We’re designing and fitting a radio transmitter to go in the clock tower, and fitting a receiver in his house.” The clock is first mentioned in an inventory of 1636.

The Barfield Road winners, who play with the postcode RG18 3BL, scooped the People’s Postcode Lottery’s Street Prize. Grandmother Heather Hopkin said she was plan- ning a special birthday cele- bration with her winnings. She said: “I’m still getting

One other lucky RG19 4PG resident scooped a £1,000 cash prize in the daily prize. People’s Postcode Lottery ambassador, former X Factor star and Eurovision hopeful Danyl Johnson presented the winners with their cheques.

David Harris at St Michael and All Angels Church in Lambourn

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