A new management team is in place at Long Wittenham Athletics Club as it prepares for a new season in the North Berks League. A new secretary has been appointed and the club plans to step up social activities to raise funds for a £20,000 extension to the pavilion.
The first team is led by Jamie Newport who was brought in last season to help with reserves and who was promoted this season. Jamie has played for Wittenham in past seasons and has also been a member of Wantage Town and Didcot Town playing Continue reading
The new houses under construction by Vanderbilt Homes are now well under way, foundations laid and block work going up.
Following it’s much acclaimed performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera The Pirates of Penzance in 2019, Opera Anywhere is returning to Long Wittenham to perform Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado at St Mary’s Church at 7:30pm on Saturday 25th September.
St Mary’s Church is hosting a Summer Club for children aged between five and eleven, from 10am to 12.30pm on Monday 23rd to Friday 27th August, in the Church and Churchyard.
A popular coach driver in Long Wittenham, Chris (Charles) King, who took villagers on coach trips to seaside resorts around the country and to local markets has died. He was eighty-five.
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Thames Water has advised that it will be carrying out works on Didcot Road for a new water main connection between Monday 9th and Wednesday 11th August from 8am to 5pm. Residents’ water supplies will not be affected.
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