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Covid-19 vaccine given to elderly patients ); THE first coronavirus jabs have been administered in the Henley area. Almost 1,000 elderly patients from the town’s Hart and Bell surgeries, Nettlebed surgery and Sonning Common Health Centre were among the first in Britain to receive their initial dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Wednesday. All the injections were administered at the Henley surgeries off York Road, where volunteer marshals from the Rotary Club of Henley Bridge, the Henley S...

Remembering John O’Brien Much like the books he published, John O’Brien (1945–2020) was a complicated man. He was an idealist who devoted his life to a self-described “quixotic enterprise” of creating a repository for strange, innovative fiction from around the world—fiction that would stay in print forever, for future generations of readers to discover and wonder at. John had impeccable taste in literature. He especially liked French and Eastern European literature that toyed with ...

Staff at Crownhill Crematorium in Milton Keynes told off mourners at funeral  Craig Bicknell moved to give mother cuddle during service after fathers death  Member of staff interrupted service to berate guests for moving close together    Craig said he has wondered if he did right thing or should have said something He has also revealed struggles to cope, saying: I went into a bit of a dark place 

A whole dag-gone community problem Sharon School Committee holds forum letting residents share instances of racial discrimination Mary Ellen Gambon After several recent incidents of allegations of racial intolerance directed at the Sharon School Committee and Sharon Public School teachers, the committee held a two-hour listening session for people to express their personal experiences and to educate community members on how these events have affected them and their children. Broadcast on Sharon...

Breaking news, president trump on the road selling his sweeping new tax plan, because he is so good at it, he says. >> this is a once in a generation opportunity and i guess its probably something i could say that im very good at, ive been waiting for this for a long time. our frame work includes our explicit commitment that tax reform will protect low income and middle income households, not the wealthy and well connected, they can call me all they want, its not going to help, im going to do th...